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Strange referral traffic

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Cornel_Ilea last edited by
Hello,

We've 301 redirected our .com domain to .co.uk. A few dayes ago, I've started to get traffic from the .com domain to the hompage.

Any idea how this can happen?
- 100% New visits
- Low bounce rate
- 80% of the referral traffic
Our website is www.theloanengine.co.uk

Any suggestions are welcomed.

Cornel
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Cornel_Ilea @DougRoberts last edited by

Hi Doug,

Thank you for your reply.

We never used the .com it was redirected to the .co.uk domain since the begining.

The traffic is 100% new visits.

Cornel
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DougRoberts last edited by

Cornel, What traffic was the .com domain getting prior to the redirect? Do you have any analytics/stats? Was the .com domain ranking for anything? (I notice it's not in the index now).

Was there any material/email campaigns etc with the .com address on?

Can you drill down further into this traffic?
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