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Your question should be directed at Google. &nbsp;They set policy and the rules (with frequent changes); and only they can give you answers to questions about your specific account.<br />
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Your question should be directed at Google.  They set policy and the rules (with frequent changes); and only they can give you answers to questions about your specific account.

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You provided some great questions. We have since determined that these particular redirects are not trackable at this time. The questions you bring up and the tool will help us now and in the future to find out why. Although this is not a direct solution, I can now see why and it helps.<br />
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Using the redirect analysis tool, the referring domain uses a permanent 301.<br />
Thanks.
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You provided some great questions. We have since determined that these particular redirects are not trackable at this time. The questions you bring up and the tool will help us now and in the future to find out why. Although this is not a direct solution, I can now see why and it helps.

Using the redirect analysis tool, the referring domain uses a permanent 301.
Thanks.

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We have printed ads using a tracking url such as 2somedomain.com . The tracking url is redirected to the main domain of the advertiser. We want to track these referred visits, but we do not have access to the tracking url. <br />
Example:<br />
If a user manually enters a tracking url like 2somedomain.com in a browser, it redirects to somedomain.com<br />
However, we cannot see these visits showing as a referral coming from 2somedomain.com in the Google Analytics account for somedomain.com . <br />
Can you tell me why, or if they would be showing as something else, and if it is possible to track these referrals?
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We have printed ads using a tracking url such as 2somedomain.com . The tracking url is redirected to the main domain of the advertiser. We want to track these referred visits, but we do not have access to the tracking url. 
Example:
If a user manually enters a tracking url like 2somedomain.com in a browser, it redirects to somedomain.com
However, we cannot see these visits showing as a referral coming from 2somedomain.com in the Google Analytics account for somedomain.com . 
Can you tell me why, or if they would be showing as something else, and if it is possible to track these referrals?

How to track redirected visits in Google Analytics

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