Visitors tracking
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Which is the best (possibly free) system for visitors tracking that works best with wordpress? I’ve tried Feedjet so far but it dosen’t say where your visitor “come from”. Thanks
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feedjit does indeed tell you the country that your visitors come from and that’s as close as you are going to get on the wordpress.com blogging platform to seeing “referral” information because we cannot use javascript counters.
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I have used and reviewed sitemeter, statcounter, whosamungus, clustrmaps, feejit, getclicky, and still have gostats left to do.
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/visitor-tracking-on-wordpress-com-blogs/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/10/24/real-time-visitor-tracking-non-javascript-for-blogs/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/06/getclicky-real-time-stats-for-wordpress-com-blogs/ -
yes, right now I have statcounter, but can’t figure out how it works….it seems that none of them will tell you how and where this visitors are coming from (bumping from another blog) or how they found me….recently in our moms of multiple community we had fakers and stalkers, I will probably end up private but want to try a different way first..
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Let’s just run back over this again. The only kind of visitors trackers that provide the complete information are javascript counters. We cannot use javascript counters on wordpress.com blogs. We can only use the plain HTML versions of any of the available free counters and they do not provide the complete information you are looking for.
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There are alternatives when it comes to privacy settings. See numbers 2 and 3 here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
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You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog. BTW you can set up comment moderation so these posers and stallkers comments will not autopost to the blog.
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Hi TT,
Re Feedjit, I’ve just noticed that it’s showing views which aren’t being recorded by WP’s stats. Weird.
I’ve reported it to Support, but I’m wondering if you’ve come across this?
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Hi Ron,
Yes I am aware of that deviation. It’s feedjit that helps me to a certain degree (as its real time tracking) , combined with sitemeter that I find helpful when it comes to tracking down content thieves. Let’s face it theaverage every day blogger does not visi the same blog a dozen times a day, leave no comments, and have an unknown browser running on Linux. When I see this pattern I’m well aware that Plano and San Antonio, Texas happen to be the home base for many spammers and content thieves. I watch the posts they hit on by viewing feedjit and then I log into sitemeter and get more datat. None of this duplication would be required at all if the wordpress.com stats provided us with complete comprehensive information, and I expect that one day it will.P.S. What I and my co-Admin (thesacredpath) have discovered is that no two third party stats programs are recording exactly the same things.
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Hi TT,
Given the location, I’m pretty sure one of the errant views was a friend (not entirely sure, it’s not possible, and I won’t see them til Monday, but it’s a good bet).The other was also local to me – possibly the same person. Almost certainly not spammers.
It’s only a couple of views on one post, which, alone, I’m not bothered about, but it made me wonder a) why they weren’t counted and b), how prevalent that is. It was pure luck I spotted it. I don’t think I’ll be checking for more – that way madness lies!
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Hmmm … friends … local to you … I have no illumination to offer.
I’m watching robots that have been sent out to suck my blog’s RSS feed dry. I have reduced the number of posts in the feed to one. I have also gone back and edited posts that were being hit on by the “mystery” visitors and embedded some text (copyright) in unlikely places in the posts. This has helped my locate my stolen posts in the past so I’m using it again when combined with use of plagarism checkers, search engine searches for specific strings in my posts, and copscape.
I don’t think I’ll be checking for more – that way madness lies!
You cracked me right up! lol :D
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@TT
Ha! Spent 15 mind-numbing minutes at getclicky – all I got was “That username or email has been used” which might actually have been useful if they’d told me which one.
As I own the domain name for my email (and website), I can’t see it being that, but I used up every possible variation of my normal username, to no avail. Seems like a glitch.
I might go back and try a false name. Then again, I might just make some toast and go to bed, as it’s 00:40. Isn’t technology wonderful. . .
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OK, TT – I went back to getclicky, this time via Google (last time I clicked through from your blog), which offered a link to their WordPress page. Still wouldn’t accept my username, but automatically defaulted to using my blog title (I tried that before – zilch). So all is now well.
And now I am going to make toast, and I think I deserve a quick snort, too.
Night.
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