Direct traffic to a blog post?
Hello guys, 8-9 months ago a launched the website zioube.com to share some thoughts of mine. To drive some traffic I contributed to the Quora and Reddit communities, wrote some guest posts and gained a couple of backlinks.
At a certain point in time, it happened that I started to gain a lot of direct traffic with destination a specific blog post.
Reading aroud the web I convinced myself it is referral traffic from a source I didn't tracked building the URL.
Do you have any other clue?
Thanks!
Hey, by looking at the source of your website it seems that you're using Google Analytics. If that's the case, you can easily check the referrer of those requests. Go to "Behavior -> Site Content -> Landing Pages", then filter it by "Full referrer" by pressing on the "Secondary dimension" button
Hey @sagi, thanks for your reply.
Sure, when I do it, it appears to me that the as full referral "(direct)".
Such traffic is almost 100% made of new users, so it's difficult for me to believe all of them bookmarked the blog post.
I have read it might be a referring website somehow not showing up (i.e.: one of the backlinks were placed to it).
But, still, I'm not sure about.
Another idea is to check which of the backlinks has a "rel=“noreferrer” attribute on. It masks the true referrer and is usually shown by Google Analytics as "direct".
More info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50773254
Thanks for the hint, sagi.
Actually, I checked via ahrefs all the backlinks to my website and especially the backlinks to the blog page I have the issue with.
They are not many (2, actually) and both of them do not have the "noreferrer" attribute to the link, just the "noopener" attribute.
I think I didn't post the link in any forum or comment form where the "noreferrer" might be applied.
I posted a tough challenge :D