Tracking inbound links

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    What would you say is the most accurate way of tracking inbound links coming into a site?
     
    lapsaJ, Oct 26, 2006 IP
  2. Nikolas

    Nikolas Well-Known Member

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    Maybe the statistics program that you are using?
     
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  3. lapsaJ

    lapsaJ Peon

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    I'm using awstats at the minute. Is there anyway of extracting that information from there?
     
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    just pull your traffic log file as there are plenty of programs out there to import your log file into.
     
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    How do I go about pulling the traffic log? Thanks
     
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  6. WillB

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    Look at the referrers section. They are all the pages that people have come to your site from.
     
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  7. lapsaJ

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    Yes I know that, I'm asking how to extract this information.
     
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    You can either download the log files through an FTP client, or your hosting control panel may have a way to download them.

    Once you've got the logs, you can do it manually.

    The easiest way is just to copy and paste the referrers though...
     
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    Another option is yahoo site-explorer: siteexplorer dot search dot yahoo dot com
     
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  10. lapsaJ

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    kh7: Looks interesting. Doesn't actually show the number of clicks coming in though?
     
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    I use Iwebtool.com but i think there is other tools out there too
     
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    Doesn't matter now, I've had one custom coded. :)
     
    lapsaJ, Oct 28, 2006 IP