If I would like to have a top referring list on my website, what is the best solution? Is there some finished code I can get somewhere? Anyone familiar with this? Say I want to display a list with the sites that has referred the most traffic and rank these sites on a top 100 basis. It's important that these sites can be registred somehow or else google probably will have number one spot all the time Another important part is that the incoming and outgoing links should be real links, no cgi/php-script that I'v seen most of these kind of sites use. Why not? Well...PageRank Any pointers or comments would be appreciated.
Method 1 : use referrer headers and sessions to track all the visitors to see where they came from and remove google from the data. Method 2 : give each site that links to you a special url to pass through (make sure it 301 redirects to your homepage) and track the data in a database. The drawback of this is that they have to use your special link or it fails.