In particular, I'm talking about MySpace. There's probably very little you can do to fix this. But maybe people familiar with myspace have some ideas. The problem is that someone is still accessing my profile by typing in the nickname URL myspace gives you, but no one who uses the shorter way is being logged. I don't see any way to "disable" my shortcut URL from working. One way I got around it is by putting a tracker icon on my blog, but that still doesn't work for people who go to my site and won't click the blog because they've read them all. Any ideas?
There isn't a way around it unfortunately... because it needs the numeric "friendid" from the URL it's on to cross reference who's profile it is.
Thanks anyway. If anyone is familiar with myspace, feel free to tell me a way I might be able to disable the shortcut URL. (Maybe I can add some HTML to the page that automatically redirects it to the underlying URL? I know that's kind of what it's already doing, but can this be done in a more direct way? AM I MAKING SENSE?) Thanks in advance!
I'm reviving my own question with the hope that someone can still help me with this. (It's driving me crazy!) Does someone with some HTML know-how have any ideas for getting the myspace URL that people type (the shortcut that uses your username) to automatically redirect to the longer user ID number URL? That way, all visits will be logged. Even if you don't use myspace, any idea how you can do that with some basic HTML on a regular site? Also, myspace doesn't allow java.