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What is a referral exclusion?
A referral exclusion list is the list of domains whose incoming traffic is treated as direct traffic (instead of referral traffic) by Google Analytics. Direct traffic is a Google Analytics session (or visit) which starts without a referrer being passed by a user’s web browser.
What is organic direct and referral traffic?
Direct: Any traffic where the referrer or source is unknown. Email: Traffic from email marketing that has been properly tagged with an email parameter. Organic: Traffic from search engine results that is earned, not paid. Referral: Traffic that occurs when a user finds you through a site other than a major search …
What is IP referral?
Now that we understand what an IP address is, we can explain a referral IP. This is simply the IP address of the computer or server that sends a backlink to your website. So if another site links your website via a backlink, you get a referral IP.
Can a domain name be excluded from the referral exclusion list?
The referral exclusion list. Only traffic from the domain entered in the referral exclusions list and any subdomains is excluded. The referral exclusion list uses CONTAINS matching. For example, if you enter example.com, then traffic from sales.example.com is also excluded (because the domain name contains example.com).
How to exclude certain domains in Google search results?
One thing that you need to do that is just simply excluding certain websites the results that you don’t wish to have in the results and if you think that those are the websites that you don’t care much about. So, here is how you can manage your Google search results.
What happens when a domain is excluded from analytics?
When your domain is in the exclusion list, then users can cross from one subdomain on your site to another without starting a new session. Without your domain in the exclusion list, when a user goes from one subdomain to another on your site, Analytics sees that as a referral from one hostname to another and starts a new session.
What happens if you exclude your-site.com from referrals?
If you do not exclude your-site.com as a referring domain, two sessions are counted, one for each arrival at my-site.com. If, however, you exclude referrals from your-site.com, the second arrival to my-site.com does not trigger a new session, and only one session is counted.
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