In the last two posts I’ve been talking about how bloggers know if someone is linking to them. To recap: There are 4 main ways:
1. email
2. Trackbacks
3. Blog watches/search engines
4. Referrer logs from stats
Read part 1 and part 2 for full details on items 1-3; today I’m going to talk about referrer logs.
4. Referrer logs
Referrer logs are one type of statistic you can collect about the traffic that comes to your blog. There’s a lot of different types of info you can collect – new vs. returning users (if they’ve accepted a cookie), pages viewed, pages they entered on, pages they left, type of browser (called a user agent in stat-speak). (more…)
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