Solved: How to create referring URL

thisdickie · ‎05-18-2016

Im currently building a stack using weebly and will be including information about various pieces of software online and also a link to each of their websites. For me to track the amount of traffic i am sending to these websites i would like to create a refferal URL.

thisdickie · ‎09-19-2016

I found the solution. I just had to add /? after the Url followed by my website. The idea was for the referral to show up on the companies analytics.

For example: I want a link on my site to take you to weebly. I would create a link and type www.weebly.com/?mysite

Hope this makes sense!

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Adam7 · ‎05-18-2016

Hey @thisdickie!

You might want to add Google Analytics to all of your sites so that you can track referral URLs for all of them:

http://hc.weebly.com/hc/en-us/articles/201979698-Google-Analytics

It's pretty easy to add, and the amount of statistical info you can get with it is very powerful.

thisdickie · ‎09-19-2016

Thanks Adam,

Im looking for something along the lines of what Product Hunt uses. After each link to an external website it has /ref=producthunt. Please see url example link below.

https://inside.com/?ref=producthunt

thisdickie · ‎09-19-2016

I found the solution. I just had to add /? after the Url followed by my website. The idea was for the referral to show up on the companies analytics.

For example: I want a link on my site to take you to weebly. I would create a link and type www.weebly.com/?mysite

Hope this makes sense!