Any 1 know how to do this? only my site, www.ad-place.net is advertised on alot of "top" buisness forums and its getting 1000's of hits even tho it's so new but i dont know who these hists are coming from
Did you place the advertising with these top business forums? I.E is it paid? If so you could use a tracking script and send them to that url, which would register the visit. Of course this will remove any link benefit from that link to your domain. Also if you are using something like cpanel, you can check your statistics (hopefully your host offers awstats) and then see where exactly the stats are comming from. Alternatively there is also an off-site stats program, clicktracks which is very good for the ultimate statistic nerd, lol. But it comes at a price. Brad
you could place a small amount of code in your pages to track the http referer. It's not ideal as those values can be faked, but it will allow to get an idea of what url your visitor last looked at before hitting that page. Store the values in a db along with the date, ip and browser finger print and you can start to build up a picture of not only traffic coming into your site, but paths they take through your site combine that with a cookie and you can start to see if they are repeat visitors or not