Is the meta referrer tag still used
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Is the meta meta referrer tag still used and is it affective. I have an issue with traffic going from one of my sites to a client site and our referral is going into their direct traffic (in Googel Analytics) instead of being seen as a referral from our site. I saw that people were using the meta referral tag, but I can't find any MOZ info about it other than a blog article from 2015.
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Hi Eric,
Setting a Referrer Policy via a Meta tag, as described in Cyrus's 2015 post, is still valid.
Whether you need to use this to see referral traffic on your client's site is a question of the security protocol of both sites. If your site is HTTPS and your client's site is HTTP, setting the referrer policy as described is an option. If they are both HTTPS or HTTP, you shouldn't need to set a referrer policy.
Whether it will work properly in your case will best be determined by adding the correct policy and checking for the data in the analytics of your client's site.
Best,
Mike
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