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anchor link overrides referrer any solution

  • March 27, 2017
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when using an anchor link on a page, Marketo overrides the referrer to "direct" any solution for that?

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

You're going to need to be more specific about your use case and about what you expect to happen here.

Linking to a #hash anchor (presumably you mean on the same page, not on another page on the same site) is technically internal, not direct, traffic.  But:

[a] I don't see how this would affect your reporting, since the Original Referrer would already be set from the initial pageview

[b] by default, Marketo doesn't track links with hrefs that start with #

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March 27, 2017

You're going to need to be more specific about your use case and about what you expect to happen here.

Linking to a #hash anchor (presumably you mean on the same page, not on another page on the same site) is technically internal, not direct, traffic.  But:

[a] I don't see how this would affect your reporting, since the Original Referrer would already be set from the initial pageview

[b] by default, Marketo doesn't track links with hrefs that start with #

March 29, 2017

Thanks, the problem was that the client included the onpage anchor link with the language path folder in front of it so Marketo thought this would be a new page and replaced the referrer.