Https Referral Issues
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Hi Moz!
We are having some trouble passing along referral data to our linked websites. We are an advertising platform that counts on our clients seeing our traffic in analytics. We recently switched to HTTPS and implemented the meta referral <always>however, we are still experiencing issues with clients not seeing our referral traffic. Are there other ways to make a full-proof fix so they will always see us as a referral? I know the referral tag should help but it isn't supported by all browsers. </always>
Also, would there be an issue if we have our site (https) linked to their http site that redirects to https? Even with the referral tag, we are seeing issues.
I feel so lucky that our actual transition to https went fine but now with all this referral traffic on clients analytics, I am concerned we are losing the credit we should get for the traffic to their site.
Thanks Moz Community!
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Do your clients use Analytics? Have you tried tagging your links using campaign tracking?
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/
You could set the source as your website or similar.
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