[LINK] Redirects, User counters and Advertising

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Mon Feb 26 10:45:22 AEDT 2007


Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
> 
>>One of the easiest ways of counting pageviews is the use of a graphic.
>>The owner of the graphic/image/logo, the owner of the website can source
>>the use which may or may not be legitimate. Ofcourse the "evil" will
>>just copy the graphic.
> 
> 
> Pageviews is only part of it. People also would like to correlate
> individual users with page accesses, and a simple image won't cut it.
> 
> These days you can (ab)use Javascript to fix this - the simplest way
> involves having a page (static or dynamic) have some embedded javascript
> which will generate a unique image URL. Or unique ad with the site URL
> and user info.
> 
> Unfortunately its hard to describe these issues to end-users because
> they haven't seen the information being abused - and you get
> accused of being a conspiracy theory nut. :P

Abuse vs Legitimate Use is the issue here and to work through the 
counterproductive FUDD.

As a website owner, you should want your website to work in your 
interests and not jeopardis your relationship with your clients and 
prospects.

M
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Marghanita da Cruz
http://www.ramin.com.au/
Telephone: 0414-869202
Ramin Communications Pty Ltd
ABN: 027-089-713-084






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