On Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:34 PM [EDT], Joshua J. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good idea. Thanks. It looks like I was wrong about Firefox. I set up an RSS feed, and when I access it from Firefox, the referrer was blank. One of the sites I looked at added ?rss to each of the links. That way, they can pick out the pages that were requested from RSS feeds from the same pages requested "the old fashioned way" by clicking on a link in a page. <link>http://example.net/news/12345.htm?rss</link> Aengus >> On Friday, February 17, 2006 9:25 AM [EDT], >> Joshua J. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to determine how much of one's traffic comes from >>> links in RSS feeds? I'm assuming that these links don't register as >>> referring pages in logfiles. True? >> >> Web servers don't decide what referrers are, User Agents do. If >> someone is reading an RSS feed in Mozilla or IE7, I'd be pretty >> surprised if the referrer wasn't set. On the other hand, if they're >> using an e-mail client to read the feed, I might be a bit surprised >> if referrers were set. >> >> If you've got some RSS feeds on your site, why don't you do some >> tests with different RSS clients, and tell us what shows up in your >> logs? >> >> Aengus >> >> >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: >>> http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help >>> >>> Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html >>> List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives >>> Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general >> +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
