Question about links from a flash banner

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by kentuckyslone, Jun 9, 2007.

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    Maybe this is a dumb question, but i have never used flash banners until now.

    So, I have a flash banner that is linked to site 'B' and I placed it on 'A'. I clicked the banner to test it and it worked - of course.

    Later I checked my awstats. The visit did not show up in the referrals list.

    So my question is this - Is there no way for our stats to be able to track visits from a flash banner?

    Also, I had assumed that the SE's could not follow the link in a flash banner. Is that true?
     
    kentuckyslone, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  2. mad4

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    Search engines don't normally spider Flash.

    Can you add a tracking parameter to the link? eg site.com/index.php?id=123
     
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  3. quite

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    doesnt google crawl flash now?!
     
    quite, Jun 9, 2007 IP
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    It crawls simple Flash sometimes but I wouldn't assume that it would.
     
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  5. kentuckyslone

    kentuckyslone Notable Member

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    As far as I know the SE bots do not follow flash.

    But what I am wondering is whether or not traffic arriving from a flash banner should show up in awstats.
     
    kentuckyslone, Jun 10, 2007 IP
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    I believe when you click a flash and a new window opens it does not pass the HTTP_REFERER info to the new window. That's why such clicks do not show up in your stats.
    As to search engines I'm pretty sure they do not recognize flash, nor do they follow links embedded. This feature would use too much of SE's system recourses.
     
    Germ, Jun 10, 2007 IP