Comments on: Visible Linking And Traffic

By: Hunter Jackson

Hunter Jackson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:38:46 +0000

i agree that being unable to tell where each visit comes from, but all this is over my head!

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By: David Lee Venters

David Lee Venters — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:09:04 +0000

Andy your spot on

I comment on Jack Humphreys blog a few times and have seen through my blog log stats that I get visitors still today from comments I made weeks ago

By: Mark Blair

Mark Blair — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:22:34 +0000

@Joost – One possibility might be to use a delayed redirect on a page with analytics tracking code that updates the utm_source variable (I think the appropriate one to use for this case). A substantial enough is necessary to make sure that the tracking code has time to execute.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:49:47 +0000

Andy: I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I MIGHT have a solution… I’ll try to work it out soon!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:47:23 +0000

Antonio unfortunately that really isn’t the same.

It is effectively what Feedburner gives you but on your own server.

The ideal situation is that people should be able to see all traffic you send them. I think it is possible, but it might need some playing around with Joost’s plugin.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:23:39 +0000

I’ve seen some plugin that does it (google a bit and found it at ( chrisfinke.com/wordpress/plugins/feed-statistics/ – I am avoiding linking to it to not trigger the filters, feel free to edit, Andy).

My issue with the plugin is that I am one of those ppl who mousesover the link and wants to see exactly where the url is going to take me, not the ugly “modified” url that returns.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:42:42 +0000

Webmail could equally be my own referrers, but it is true, it is the same as traditional bookmarks.

With traditional bookmarks it is possible to track a reentry to your side from a link with some kind of session ID, but I am not going to suggest people start messing with their clean URLs necessarily. It would be a possible solution for a shopping site.

It is not small amounts of traffic sometimes, I have seen 500+ direct entries to a review out of nowhere, and then determined it must have been from a PayPerPost email.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:34:17 +0000

That throws off the direct referrer traffic a little also. So it’s hard to tell when people remember your domain by name or use a bookmark. I guess webmail gives you a tiny bit of tracking (i.e. hits from Yahoo mail).