> >>> What is the easiest way for me to track the source of a visit to
> >>> our site? If you refer somebody to me, I want to track that and
> >>> report back to you.
> >>
> >> Easiest way is with cookies. Second is with IP addresses although
> >>you cannot reliably tract from session to session with IP address.
> >>Another way ... forget it you said simple :-)
>
> *blink* Sorry, this answer makes no sense at all. Cookies are not relevant
> to this question and how are you suggesting that ip addresses give you a
> methodology to access the referrer?
First, I'm assuming the process is to automated. Second, Identfying
an individual accurately is virtually impossible unless someone has a
static IP address which is rare.
Once someone arrives there referer will indeed tell where the came
from but will not track a user through a site nor will it track if they
come back to the site by entering the url directly in their browser.
Let's assume someone calls a page by clicking on a link:
<A HREF="http://xyz.com/buy-books.pl?id-number>Check out Joe's book
store</A>
where id-number is unique. When the arrive at xyz the referer will have
the calling site and query_string will contain the unique id-number. If
the user allows cookies, I can track their progress through the site,
even on subsequent visits.
> Easiest way is to look at your web's server logs. Any log analysis program
> will give you information on referrers. This is not something that cookies
> deal with,
Since you set cookies, they can contain anything you want them to.
> since the site that was the referrer would set the cookie and
> your site could not read a cookie set by another site.
Not totally true. Although a cookie may only be set by the same
domain issuing the request, the user may specify additional domains that
may rad the cookies. That's exactly how some ot the big information
gater infomration about you even though it's from different domains.
> Kayla (wondering why people attempt to answer things when they don't know
> the answers...)
What did I do, or say, to deserve this comment.
Urb
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