how to get youtube and facebook as referrers

hi,

I was wondering for youtube and facebook...

Is there a way to tell WHICH youtube video has been referring the most traffic?

Or which fb fan page post has been referring the most traffic?


Right now I can only see facebook.com for incoming links, and cannot see the specific posts.

And youtube, even though I am testing clicking on the description boxes of the specific videos, it's still not showing youtube as the referrer.

Please help

Did you install the Youtube tracking stuff in the top of your HTML file?

Here is the code. Just click "Youtube" and use the "new method"

https://clicky.com/help/media

thanks for the reply, I'm referring to seeing youtube as a traffic source

which is different than tracking youtube analytics and interactions on my site?

for example, there are lots of people who video our youtube.com videos... but what i want to know is which youtube.com video is causing the users to come to our site


thanks!

It would be interesting to see what your browser thinks the referrer is. You can make a 3-line PHP script to have it display the $_SERVER variable, and you want the HTTP_REFERER to see what it looks like.

I can't post HTML in this forum, but here's a link with the script. Use the first example. Put that in a file called test.php and then click through to it.

https://blog.sinatranetwork.com/2011/07/20/php-how-to-print-all-_server-variables/

You would have to use a campaign tag to get that detail as there is no way to tell which exact post or video is referring traffic from Facebook or YouTube.

got it! using campaigns now :)

thanks @ringo64

I am currently using a Plugin called "incoming links" on my Wordpress website www.therealtreemasters.ca, that shows me the exact backlink. It will show you which Youtube video is linking to you.