Self-Referrals in GA4: Dealing With The Data Nightmare!

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In this video, we'll explain why self-referrals are such a big problem in Google Analytics 4 and where Google's official documentation really lets you down. We'll also explain how to actually fix this problem and sort out your "not set" traffic.
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00:00 Intro
00:23 Self Referrals In Universal Analytics
01:19 Self Referral Problems In GA4
03:05 What Google Says GA4 Self Referrals
04:02 Why This Is A Big Problem
05:12 How To Fix Self Referral Problems
08:53 Conclusion

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@jllcarrasco 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information. Is there any way to override this problem using Tag Manager? Perhaps forcing the ignore_referrer value to false o null.

@DataDrivenU 10 ай бұрын

Interesting approach - if you try it before we do, pls share in the comments. thx!

@georgimatev1712 9 ай бұрын

@@DataDrivenU did you end up trying this?

@DataDrivenU 9 ай бұрын

@@georgimatev1712 not yet :(

@mikasa.._. 7 ай бұрын

I tried this now i.e. setting ignore_referrer to false for the page view event via GTM, but analytics still overrides the ignore_referrer value to true. Any other ideas or solution?@@DataDrivenU

@mikasa.._. 7 ай бұрын

I see that your main domain is showing up in the referral traffic but for me, both main and subdomains are not showing up in the referral traffic. Any idea on the fix and why my main domain isn't showing in the referral traffic like yours?

@DataDrivenU 7 ай бұрын

I explain why our main domain is showing in referrals at 7m30s timestamp (it's a bug, you don't want it:)

@AlfredodelArenal Жыл бұрын

Very informative (and a bit scary 😆 )...thank you!

@DataDrivenU Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such a positive and upbeat feedback!

@leandraparks121 7 ай бұрын

This is a great video but is there a solution to fix the problem? Do I add the hostname as a referral exclusion?

@DataDrivenU 7 ай бұрын

Depends on what you wanna achieve

@leandraparks121 7 ай бұрын

@@DataDrivenU, my domain is showing up as referral traffic, along with a few other cross-domains. I have cross-domain tracking set up and think the traffic is coming from an external embed that we cannot put GA on.