Strange referral traffic
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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?
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100% New visits
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Low bounce rate
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80% of the referral traffic
Our website is www.theloanengine.co.uk
Any suggestions are welcomed.
Cornel
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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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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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