Awstats Q: Links from external pages only showing emails

[Ellen C. Braun]

As of today 93% of my site's traffic is "Direct Adress/ Bookmarks"

1% SE

5% Links from external page

Obviously, most of my traffic is coming from referrals, people emailing others about my site.

I used to be able to see in the "links from external page" section where my links were coming from- generally forums or blogs- and go there, introduce myself, and network with others in the industry.

Now, my "links from external pages" is only showing email accounts, not sites. I know people are still posting links in blogs and forums from my Wordpress backlinks... I'd love to be able to see more from Awstats- is there any way to do so?

This is what I see now... not very useful:


- http://www.aweber.com/z/c/ 1537 4035
- http://webmail.ntlworld.com/agent/mobmain 415 415
- http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx 385 385
- http://webmail.bellsouth.net/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+mobmain 222 222
- http://webmail.pas.earthlink.net/wam/msg.jsp 132 135
- http://webmaila.juno.com/webmail/8 125 125
- http://webmail.adelphia.net/webedge/do/mail/message/view 111 111
- http://mail.charter.net/do/mail/message/view 94 94
- http://us.f818.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 86 86
- http://webmailb.juno.com/webmail/8 82 82
- http://www.wrongplanet.net/asperger.html 76 76
- http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/archives/why-we-homeschool-... 76 76
- http://us.f812.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 72 72
- http://us.f823.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 70 70
- http://us.f815.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 68 68
- http://us.f819.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 67 68
- http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl 67 103
- http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php 67 67
- http://us.f822.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 67 68
- http://netmail.verizon.net/webmail/servlet/HttpNimletDriver 66 66
- http://us.f816.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 64 64
- http://us.f841.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 64 65
- http://us.f519.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter 64 68
- http://www.fausmembers.org/members/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi 62 62
- http://us.f817.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter

[giraph]

There should be a link in the referring site section that says "Full List" if you click that you can view all referring sites.

[Ellen C. Braun]

Thanks, that worked, mostly to find more email hosts, lol!

Now, how can I go about finding the SOURCE of referrals like this:

http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx - brought me 300+ visitors
http://www.momys.com/index.php or http://www.dallasareamoms.com/forums/showthread.php ?

Short of reading through huge sites or forums, how can I find the thread with the link to my site?

Thanks!!

[giraph]

There's no real set in stone way to do it, if the site has a search function you can usually search for your site. Other stat programs can tell you what sites people are coming from if there are variables on the end. One example I use is Analog stats. It's really ugly but it will tell you. :) Good luck.