: Traffic from a specific site considered as direct traffic Let's say a site adds a link to my site. After that, I noticed an increase in visits to my site (and I'm sure that at least some

@Shanna517

There's only 2 ways I know of that can cause this, but both require that the site "linking to you" doesn't actually link to you (not directly at least):


They link to another domain that's doing a JavaScript redirect.
They're linking to an out page that's doing a meta refresh redirect.


In the first case, it's the second domain that will show up in your analytics/logs. In the second case, it will look like direct traffic.

Also, even if the page source looks like they're direct links, they could be using JavaScript to change the links onclick like Google does in order to track outbound traffic.

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