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How can I track sites coming from the Content network?

         

heyday

8:58 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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How can I track sites coming from the Content network

Ok, can anyone give me any advice on how to track which sites on the Content network are sending me traffic?

I use Urchin for my log analyzer and all it ever says for the referrer is:

[pagead2.googlesyndication.com...]

I want to be able to see exactly what site sent me the hit and better yet I would like to see when I get a conversion from that site.

Is there a better tool out there for this or something I can do to tweak Urchin?

Thanks for any help,

heyday

werty

1:44 pm on Jul 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

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You may want to send an email to urchin complaining of this problem...

One way to find these clicks is to go through your log files and look for the site being referenced as the referrer. It should look something like this:

[pagead2.googlesyndication.com...]

I do not have access to log files to any sites that are buying traffic right now, so I cannot give you an exact snippet, but browse your logs and you should find it easily.

RonPK

1:48 pm on Jul 13, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yeah, the referrer contains a piece like

&ref=http://www.example.com/page.html

Parse that, and you've got what you need.

edit: or &url=... , not sure about that