Tracking traffic from 301 redirect

[Simon.P]

Hi.

I have a short, memorable domain that i will point at my main site (which is not so easy to remember). I would like to track when people arrive at my site via the short domain as i plan to use it one area only and would like to measure if its viable or not. Any suggestions much appreciated.
Thanks
Simon

 

[Clinton]

Won't the short domain be clearly indicated as a referrer in your analytics?

 

[Simon.P]

Won't the short domain be clearly indicated as a referrer in your analytics?

Hi Clinton. Thank you for taking the time to reply. I use Google analytics so i guess it will show up in there?
Cheers
Simon

 

[Clinton]

Absolutely. And in your server logs.

You could also track at short domain itself if you wish. Instead of redirecting at the domain level / registrar, you can redirect via htaccess or simply via a refresh meta tag. Then you'll get traffic logs at short domain to give you data on those visitors. You'll know, for example, which ones entered directly and which ones were referred by other websites. If you prefer you could have GA on that short domain refresh page as well instead of bothering to dig into server logs for your stats.

If you do want to dig into server logs I've got some detailed explanations I've posted here on how to read those logs.

 

[elsnermagento]

Hello Clinton,

It is not that much posible to track 301 redirect url's traffic. But you can setup google analytics for your short domain.

 

[fisicx]

It is not that much posible to track 301 redirect url's traffic.

Yes it is. Did you not read his post?

 

[elsnermagento]

Yes it is. Did you not read his post?

yes, i read

 

[fisicx]

yes, i read

In which you will know that you can track 301redirects.

 

[elsnermagento]

In which you will know that you can track 301redirects.

Read answer proper

 

[fisicx]

Read answer proper

I did. You said:

It is not that much posible to track 301 redirect url's traffic.

Which I took to mean you cannot track 301s.

 

[Clinton]

@fisicx, was curious - why don't you guys just delete completely useless and pointless posts from newbies when they are here just to build some post count before dropping a link to their made-in-India SEO services?

 

[Simon.P]

Many thanks for that @Clinton , much appreciated. Your article is most useful. I will probably do the lazy option of setting it up as a site within cpanel, installing GA and redirecting to the main site via htaccess but its good to know the logs are there if that plays up with it.
Cheers
Simon