Mike Ciesielka

After our launch on Nov 3 I went looking for how many sign-ups Product Hunt sent us. Our analytics said zero. That seemed wrong, so I checked: the "Visit website" link is marked noreferrer, so visitors arrive without telling your site where they came from. They land in "direct" traffic instead.

If you launched recently, you can't tell your Product Hunt sign-ups apart from people who typed your URL. The fix takes a minute: add ?utm_source=producthunt to your website link. There are two places to change: the launch's links and the product page's website link, which is what the "Visit website" button uses.

We're building NEXUPIRA, an AI team for small businesses, so every sign-up matters to us. Once we looked properly, search turned out to bring us more sign-ups than launch day did.

How do you track where your sign-ups come from? Did launch day or search do more for you?

If you re still sitting on your launch, this is the push.

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