Referrer Tracking

[J2Park]

I am not that familiar with referrer tracking. In a scenario with 3 separte sites, I want to know if referrer information is passed on from the first site to a 3rd site if a permanent redirect is done on a 2 site.

Basically, If there is a link on site A that points to a page on site B (b.com/test.html) and the page on site B has a permanent redirect to site C, will anyone who has access to site C be able to see in any referrer information that the person initially came from site A?

Thanks,

[jonrichd]

I may be wrong, but in my experience, site C's logs will show site A as the referer to the page (and ignore the intermediate B site). Of course B's logs will show the referer from A as well.

[Span]

jonrichd is correct I believe. But there are exceptions. I know for sure Mac/IE5 sends site B as it's referrer, and maybe other UAs do the same.

[J2Park]

Thats what I have been experiencing. Site A keeps showing up in the stats for site C and B is left out of the picture. Does anyone know how not to pass on the referrer information to site C from A? I dont mind if the referrer from B is passed on but I dont want site A showing up.

[Span]

I guess you would have to use a client side redirect at site B. A META redirect and/or Javascript. You'll have drop the 301.