stats on home page

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  andyc · Member · Jun 13, 2006 at 10:50 pm

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  If someone cites an article but incorrectly links to the blog home page (instead of the specific article), how does that page view appear in the stats ?

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  drmike · Member · Jun 13, 2006 at 10:55 pm

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  Well, it would be a page view on your graph. If they click thru into the post, then you would get credit for it.

  *chuckle* I do hope you’ve written a post saying where to go for the Post. :)

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  andyc · Member · Jun 13, 2006 at 10:59 pm

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  Thanks drmike. That is crystal clear now.

  The issue of redirecting any readers to the ‘correct’ link might be a good subject in its own right :-)

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  drmike · Member · Jun 13, 2006 at 11:10 pm

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  A polite email to the site in question may be helpful. You may want to drop a hint saying that you’ve received complaints from visitors about the incorrect link.

  If the other site allows comments, a polite comment there may also be in order.

  I had a site with over 15k broken URLs in Google and Yahoo once. Lots of fun.

  Good luck,
  -drmike