Track Your Traffic With Updated Referral Source URL For Google Images

Each day, zillions of people use Google Images to visually explore and find content on the internet. Whether it is about discovering ideas for your next big architecture project, or visual instructions on fixing a machine, searching for image results can often be more appealing and helpful than finding texts. However, in comings days, referral source URL for Google Images will be updated. So make sure that your software tools are prepared for monitoring Google Images traffic.

What is a Referrer URL?

It is an integral part of the HTTP header, and it points to the very last page the visitor was on and clicked for the destination webpage. Many website analytics tools display the referrer URL in order to show where the users came from.

• The new Referrer URL for Google Images will be https://images.google.com.
• The new referral source URL for Google Images has the alike country code top-level domain (ccTLD). This is actually the same as the URL used for exploring and searching (for instance, images.google.co.in).

Updating the Referral Source URL for Google Images to monitor traffic

It has never been easy for the webmasters to understand the role of Google Images in driving site traffic. To solve this, Google has announced to launch a new referrer URL specific to Google Images in the coming months.

You should rather prepare for this change if you create software to analyze website traffic. In case if you are using Google Analytics to monitor site data, the update Referral Source URL for Google Images will be automatically imbibed and traffic will be attributed properly. Also, just to make it clear, this update is not going to affect Google Search Console. However, webmasters will continue receiving an overall list of the most searched queries that drive traffic to their sites.

How will this update affect the country-specific queries?

As I already mentioned before, the new Referral Source URL for Google Images will use the same ccTLD. In specific, this means that most visitors from around the globe come from images. Last year, Google made few changes and google.com became the default preferences of searchers all over the world. However, there would still be some users who would want to use country-specific services and queries. In this case, the referrers use TLD for that specific country.

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Originally published at www.oodlesmarketing.com on July 23, 2018.