Wednesday, April 26, 2017

How to fix my subdomains showing up as referrals?”

By default, Google Analytics creates a new session when users navigate from one subdomain to another. To fix this, go to to Tracking Info -> Referral Exclusion List and add your domains.

How to Set Up A View For Each Sub Domain?

Set Up A View For Each Subdomain (Optional)

A View is what Google Analytics uses to refer to profiles of data. You can create unique Views that will allow you to manipulate the data in different ways for that View without effecting other Views.
To best organize your data I recommend creating a view for each subdomain in addition to the View that we already have that collects data on all of our subdomains. This is optional, you can skip this if you don’t think you will ever want to see your data divided between subdomains.
If you have been following along closely so far, we have already created a view that collects data on all of the subdomains collectively and configured Google Analytics to display our subdomain data. Now we need to create a view for each subdomain. Start by going to Admin -> Views -> Create New View.
Once you have created a new view, you need to apply filters to make sure each view is only collecting data on their assigned subdomain.
To apply a filter that ensures that we track only traffic for the view’s designated subdomain, go to Admin -> Views -> Filters -> New Filter and refer to the screenshot below.
Filter to only include traffic to the specified subdomain
Applying this filter to your profile will ensure that this profile only tracks traffic for the specified subdomain. In this case, www.yoursite.com. Remember, www is a subdomain itself. Repeat this filter for each profile that you created where you need to isolate a subdomain.

How to Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders

Go to Administration › Reporting View Settings > Bot Filtering > Tick the Checkbox to Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders

Subdomain Tracking Setup for Google Universal Analytics