.com site referral traffic to ccTLDs
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We have 7 international domains set up along with our main .com site. All of the ccTLds are showing their main referral traffic as coming from the .com site in GA, and most of those being from mobile. Each site is set up correctly with geo-targeting and hreflang tags. Has anyone experienced this before?
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Hi there Jarred,
The first thing I would do is set up Google Search Console accounts for each of the ccTLDs you have to see if Google is sending all traffic to your .com or if this is just a Google Analytics tracking problem.
The second thing I would do is crawl the international sites with Screaming Frog. It's possible that you copied over the pages between ccTLDs and kept internal links to the .com version on other ccTLD sites.
Last, I'd check which pages are typically the referral source in GA. Then we can troubleshoot from there.
Hope this helps! I realize we've taken a bit to get back to you, so let us know if you fixed the problem on your own in the mean time. We're interested to hear how it worked out.
Thanks!
Kristina
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Are you using a unique GA Tracking ID per domain - It's the UA- number?
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