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User A returns directly to the site, for example, via a bookmark. “Note: The key event lookback window you choose also applies to session attribution.” Automatic self-referral detection
Why returning users from excluded domains still appear in your reports “User A arrives at your site via a referral from Domain B before you add that domain to the Referral Exclusion List.” That first session is attributed to Domain B.
This article is for website owners who need unified measurement across more than one domain, e.g. across a customer website and a separate shopping-cart domain, and don't want that traffic categorized as referrals. “Referrals are the segment of traffic that arrives on your website through another source, like through a link on a third-party domain.” To make sure your data includes only referrals in which you're interested, you can create a set of conditions that identify the domains whose traffic you don't want to identify as referrals.
This article is for website owners who need unified measurement across more than one domain, e.g. across a customer website and a separate shopping-cart domain, and don't want that traffic categorized as referrals. “Analytics automatically recognizes where traffic was immediately before arriving on your site, and displays the domain names of these sites as the referral-traffic sources in your reports.” To make sure your data includes only referrals in which you're interested, you can create a set of conditions that identify the domains whose traffic you don't want to identify as referrals.
Referrals are the segment of traffic that arrives on your website through another source, like through a link on a third-party domain. Analytics automatically recognizes where traffic was immediately before arriving on your site, and displays the domain names of these sites as the referral-traffic sources in your reports. “To make sure your data includes only referrals in which you're interested, you can create a set of conditions that identify the domains whose traffic you don't want to identify as referrals.” When you create these conditions, Analytics evaluates events sent from your website and appends the ignore_referrer parameter with a value of true to every event that matches the conditions (ignore_referrer=true). This parameter indicates to Analytics that the referrer should not be displayed as a traffic source.
When you create these conditions, Analytics evaluates events sent from your website and appends the ignore_referrer parameter with a value of true to every event that matches the conditions (ignore_referrer=true). This parameter indicates to Analytics that the referrer should not be displayed as a traffic source. “The conditions are evaluated for every web page on which you have the Google tag.” Common uses
The following examples illustrate scenarios in which you would not want to identify traffic from a domain as referrals: “Third-party payment processors: An ecommerce site that uses a third-party payment processor, and users return to your site after checking out on the third-party domain.” Website-managed interactions: Transactions that are managed through a website but involve different third-party domains like a password-recovery operation that sends an email to users and there is traffic from the email domain back to the website. In this context, the email domain is acting as an aspect of your business rather than as a source of traffic.
To make sure your data includes only referrals in which you're interested, you can create a set of conditions that identify the domains whose traffic you don't want to identify as referrals. “When you create these conditions, Analytics evaluates events sent from your website and appends the ignore_referrer parameter with a value of true to every event that matches the conditions (ignore_referrer=true).” The conditions are evaluated for every web page on which you have the Google tag.
To make sure your data includes only referrals in which you're interested, you can create a set of conditions that identify the domains whose traffic you don't want to identify as referrals. “This parameter indicates to Analytics that the referrer should not be displayed as a traffic source.” The conditions are evaluated for every web page on which you have the Google tag.