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What do these terms mean: (10 posts)

Topic tags: referring sites, referring urls, statistics

Barbara F. Capps said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Ok,it’s St. Paddy’s Day, so all of you seasoned bloggers are allowed to roll your eyes at this seriously newbie question. However, don’t laugh too much because it’s my birthday, too.
Question: In the stats of a blog what are these terms telling me?( In English, please, not Irish or tech-ese:)
1. Referring urls
2. Referring sites
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Anita Cohen-Williams said
1 year, 3 months ago:
No laughter at all as it is a great question.
When a user clicks on a link in a web page, the user’s browser moves to the specified link. When the browser requests the new page, it sends along the URL of the previous page. This “sent along” URL is called a referring URL. (from OCLC)
Any time a visitor comes to your site, chances are they came from somewhere else. The site that they come from, therefore, is called the “referring site”. https://portal.smartertools.com/KB/a178/referring-sites.aspx
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Paul Wylie said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@barbc Well if your using GA you have probably notice that Google doesn’t give you the full URL of the referring site. There is a workaround (simple hack using filters)
http://www.sebastienpage.com/2009/05/06/google-analytics-trick-see-the-full-referring-url/
You want to see the specific url of the referring link rather than just the referring site. As referring site doesn’t tell you much.
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Nichole Schlecht said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@barbc
It just means the visitor to your website/blog was referred to your site from a different site (the referred url/site) by a link on the referring site.
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Barbara F. Capps said
1 year, 3 months ago:

@iamconsulting So “It just means the visitor to your website/blog was referred to your site from a different site (the referred url/site) by a link on the referring site.” is referral sites and

@anitacohen-williams“When a user clicks on a link in a web page, the user’s browser moves to the specified link. When the browser requests the new page, it sends along the URL of the previous page. This “sent along” URL is called a referring URL.
is the referring url?
Have I got it yet?
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Barbara F. Capps said
1 year, 3 months ago:

@iamconsulting So “It just means the visitor to your website/blog was referred to your site from a different site (the referred url/site) by a link on the referring site.” is referral sites and

@anitacohen-williams“When a user clicks on a link in a web page, the user’s browser moves to the specified link. When the browser requests the new page, it sends along the URL of the previous page. This “sent along” URL is called a referring URL.
is the referring url?
Have I got it yet?
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Nichole Schlecht said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@barbc
The referring site it the site the person came from, the referring url is the specific url where the link was placed that was clicked to go to your site.
For example: There is a link to your website on http://www.myblog.com/abc123. The referring site is http://www.myblog.com and the referring url is http://www.myblog.com/abc123.
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@barbc The explanation by @iamconsulting is right on. In my case, I write regularly for this site, participate in the forum, and contribute to crowdsourced posts. Hence, in my Google Analytics, I can see the traffic from socialmediaexaminer.com as a whole, aka the referring site. If I click on it, I can see which specific pages on socialmediaexaminer.com, aka the referring URLs. The latter tells me which activity leads to the most amount of visits back to my website.
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Nilmini Klur said
1 year, 2 months ago:
So what’s a trackback?
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Dea Irby said
1 year, 2 months ago:
and is a trackback the same as a ping back? @nilminiklur
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