question-answered Classification of NamePros Signature on GA?

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In Google Analytics' Traffic Acquisition report, how would a direct link from my NamePros signature to my Atom WLM page be classified?

Thank you in advance.

 

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Referral.

We add utm_source=namepros.com to each external link to make it easy to see how many visitors came from NamePros.

You can also add a unique query string (e.g., ?t=npsig) to the link in your signature to track exactly how many visitors came from your signature only, in case there are links elsewhere on NamePros (e.g., in posts) that also link to your site.

We hope this helps.

 

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Referral.

We add utm_source=namepros.com to each external link to make it easy to see how many visitors came from NamePros.

You can also add a unique query string (e.g., ?t=npsig) to the link in your signature to track exactly how many visitors came from your signature only, in case there are links elsewhere on NamePros (e.g., in posts) that also link to your site.

We hope this helps.

Strange. I only recently set up my Atom WLM, and as far as I know, the only place it’s been publicly visible so far is in my NamePros signature. Bots? Secret admirers?

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Strange. I only recently set up my Atom WLM, and as far as I know, the only place it’s been publicly visible so far is in my NamePros signature. Bots? Secret admirers?

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Probably bots from NamePros but the bots don't send a referrer (like a person using a browser would) so it's classified as Direct. We have 10-20 thousand bots crawling us every hour.

 

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Probably bots from NamePros but the bots don't send a referrer (like a person using a browser would) so it's classified as Direct. We have 10-20 thousand bots crawling us every hour.

Oh... I was getting so excited

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