Tracking traffic from redirected (301) domains.

[RFH Reseller: Rappie]

Any Google Analytics expert in the house
For ages I've redirected domain aliases using .htacces to the primary domain. I haven't paid much attention to the aliases. However I am curious how much traffic actually go's trough the different aliases. I am unable to find any reports that show traffic coming from aliases or redirects though. So I am wondering whether is actually being tracked in GA, or did I perhaps missed the obvious?

[RFH Reseller: nick]

I don't think so, I don't think the show as a referring sites and GA's javascript would never be run under alias as the redirect would happens prior to a page load.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

I don't think so, I don't think the show as a referring sites and GA's javascript would never be run under alias as the redirect would happens prior to a page load.

Thats right, though SmarterStats should pickup the aliases before the redirect since SmarterStats builds its data from the raw log files.

[RFH Reseller: Rappie]

Thanks guys,

I don't think so, I don't think the show as a referring sites and GA's javascript would never be run under alias as the redirect would happens prior to a page load.

I was afraid that was going to be the answer when my searches turned up blank. However I've found a way to do so. Just make every domain redirect a campaign add the following URI: ?utm_source=example&utm_medium=referrer&utm_campai gn=301redirection
Then you will be able to track the number of times the primary domain was visited by looking at the Campaign (under Traffic Sources) metrics in GA.

though SmarterStats should pickup the aliases before the redirect since SmarterStats builds its data from the raw log files.

Thats a good hint, haven't thought of that