So I did, and there's a small trickle of hits, but Namedrive says absolutely nothing about about the traffic source, UA or anything else. Is that typical of parking services or is ND just crap? I mean, I would expect that most of these visitors are either bots or coming from the WHOIS record. I wold like to know which ones are direct nav and which ones aren't - it doesn't need to be full blown analytics, but at least something useful.
Is there any way to get that for parked domains, or do you just need to host it and put up your own analytics?
They provide nation of origin info, referrer/search engine query (if applies, surprising how many folks still type domain+com into SE query box), and spidering info.
Not all services require you to use their DNS. I haven't used any other version of domain redirection but it's my understanding that's the way to go if you want to maximize your data collection.
Sorry about the late reply. I've been away for awhile, chaperoning Pop on a trip to the Sunshine State.
<HTML>
<FRAMESET ROWS="*" FRAMEBORDER="0" BORDER=0 BORDER="0">
<FRAME SRC="http://www.ndparking.com/example.com">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
I'm wondering - is there any way to combine this with e.g. Google Analytics tracking?
If they let you use iframes (should be the same), you could just put the GA on the page. You wouldn't get much data, but at least you would know a little better where traffic came from.
And you could easily do this for all your domains if you don't have too many. I suppose this is a lot more trouble than it's worth except for really good domains with some good numbers.
- point them all at the same file, say an index.php
- then just grab the requested domain and insert it into the frame source and key that to your domain profile in GA
<html>
<iframe src="http://ndparking.com/"<?php print $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; ?>
<p>Make an offer link or affiliate offer</p>
</iframe>
<?php
$gaProfileArray = array(
"site1.com" => 1,
"site2.com" => 2);
$gaProfileNum = (inarray($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], $gaProfileArray) ? $gaProfileArray[$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']] : 0;
if ($gaProfileNum) {
?>
Insert GA code here
<?php
}
?>
Then in the GA code the line
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-243849-1");
simply becomes
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-243849-<?php print $gaProfileNum;?>");
