I have an online store with a .com and a .com.au domain with essentially the same content, each site has it's own analytics profile and tracking code.
I send all my advertising to the .com.au domain, I make a number of sales on that domain but for some reason I seem to make more sales on the .com domain as a result. All sales are to Australians. I can't figure out how the heck they're buying from the .com instead of the .com.au, they shouldn't even know the .com exists.
Here is the PPC traffic in question that I sent to the .COM.AU
Here is the DIRECT traffic (meaning the person typed the URL into their browser) for the .COM
As you can see, the type-in direct traffic on the .com matches the .com.au's PPC traffic almost exactly. I don't know why this is happening, but it's screwing up my ability to track which ads lead to sales. Analytics does have a semi-solution for cross domain tracking, but it only works if the visitor clicks a link with an "onclick" javascript tag from the .com.au to the .com. If they leave the .com.au and then visit the .com, analytics doesn't recognize it and fails to track the sale as originating from the PPC traffic I sent to the .com.au. It's a bit fucked and I'm kinda regretting setting up a separate .com.au, perhaps should have gone with a subdomain.
I send all my advertising to the .com.au domain, I make a number of sales on that domain but for some reason I seem to make more sales on the .com domain as a result. All sales are to Australians. I can't figure out how the heck they're buying from the .com instead of the .com.au, they shouldn't even know the .com exists.
Here is the PPC traffic in question that I sent to the .COM.AU
Here is the DIRECT traffic (meaning the person typed the URL into their browser) for the .COM
As you can see, the type-in direct traffic on the .com matches the .com.au's PPC traffic almost exactly. I don't know why this is happening, but it's screwing up my ability to track which ads lead to sales. Analytics does have a semi-solution for cross domain tracking, but it only works if the visitor clicks a link with an "onclick" javascript tag from the .com.au to the .com. If they leave the .com.au and then visit the .com, analytics doesn't recognize it and fails to track the sale as originating from the PPC traffic I sent to the .com.au. It's a bit fucked and I'm kinda regretting setting up a separate .com.au, perhaps should have gone with a subdomain.