google analytics - absolute links

absolute links causing own domain to be referring site

[willardness]

I have been using google analytics for over a month now, and I have a pretty silly problem.

My main source of traffic is my own domain?

I have been asking google why this is, and they tell me to stop using frames and redirects, but I DO NOT HAVE THOSE elements in my site.

I do however, use absolute links on all of my pages. Does anyone know if this is what is causing google analytics to interpret my internal links as outside referring websites?

I asked google, but they are incapable of giving any answer.

Does anyone know a work around for this if this is the case - because this really skews my stats and goal conversions.

thanks in advance.

[netmeg]

The absolute links shouldn't be doing it. Do you have more than one domain name pointing to your site?

[kartikm]

netmeg is right. Do you have a redirect on your website? For instance, if your website is www.example.com but redirects to www.example.com/index.html, your website will be treated as a referral by Analytics. If this is the problem, simply add www.example.com/index.html as the website URL in your account.

[added] ok, I just noticed that you already mentioned that you don't have redirects. Sorry :D Its been a long day here. [added]