Analytics not tracking traffic from Old Domain Redirect

[ATMOSMarketing56]

We've recently 301 redirected one of our client's domains to their new website and the strange thing is, we aren't seeing an increase in traffic in analytics. You would expect the traffic to increase roughly by the traffic volume from the old domain. There were a few hundred redirects and we tested a large sample and the redirects have been implemented properly. Is there something that we did incorrectly in our implementation of the domain redirect? Or is there something else that we need to do in Analytics to properly track those redirects?

[iPullRank]

Is this from all channels? Or are you just specifically looking for the increase in referral traffic? I need a little more information to determine what's going on here. Feel free to direct message me some more details if you're not comfortable sharing them publicly.

-Mike

[ATMOSMarketing56]

We were tracking the old domain as well and were expecting to see roughly the same amount of traffic be added to the new domain. We did find that it was an error with the switch to HTTPS which we weren't notified of, but we submitted a new sitemap for the HTTPS and the site only has 4 pages indexed, where there should be over 2,000. Any idea why that might be happening?

[Millermore]

It should still record the data in there as long as you are tracking the new domain. The traffic from the old domain will come up as referral traffic. These may be considered self-referrals, which you may not be tracking. Here is an article with more information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3198398?hl=en-GB (I gotta give credit to Gary Lee for that link from this post http://moz.com/community/q/will-301-redirects-same-domain-show-as-referral-traffic-in-analytics)

Were you tracking the traffic from the old domain? Do you know how much traffic that site was getting on a daily basis?Or are you just assuming it was getting traffic and therefore you should expect an increase in traffic?