Putting a link to your site in your sig helps big time!

[edesignuk]

If like me, you have a personal website, which doesn't really offer much to attract regular visitors. Then being an active member of MR with a link in your sig may help your traffic/hit counts out big time!

Look at my stats!

Thanks all :) and keep visiting, I will update it one day...promise ;)

[Mantat]

I think that what brings the most trafic to your site is not has much as the signature as your avatar pic...

[edesignuk]

I think that what brings the most trafic to your site is not has much as the signature as your avatar pic...
That thread has only had 926 views. And I've had almost 7000 hits on http://jatrix.edesignuk.net

[Benjamin]

well I think also your reputation on this site is what is getting your hits as well, not just your sig, but yes your sig is quite unique since you took time to colorize it and all.

if your wondering this the break down of my site. Mac forums is pretty low on the list, hehe.

http://web.pdx.edu/~bhartig/bbclone/

[Mr. Anderson]

Ha, great.

And what do you plan on doing with all those hits? :p

[Kwyjibo]

Trust me , i've seen the same effect, its great to have all these people looking at my site along with my personal friends


and shhh dion't give awya the secret ...

[mnkeybsness]

Wow... your site has a ton more refers from macrumors than mine does... either you post too much (ha ha) or my signature needs sprucing up ;)

[djbahdow01]

Can't say i have seen a significant boost in site referals, but i can say that there are more people checking out my site. Might be because i am updating a little more now but i also get non US ip's so i am pretty sure that most of those are from Macrumors. To all that have checked out the site, Thank You. I actually just did an update today.

[rendezvouscp]

What services do you use to get reporting like that (especially Benjamin)?
-Chase

[Benjamin]

What services do you use to get reporting like that (especially Benjamin)?
-Chase

I am using the php bbclone (http://bbclone.de/), all it does is tags pages (like the java script equivalent) and is probably only 90% accurate, but I can't (or to lazy ;) ) access my servers log files since it is on a university line. But displays nicely, and is free and all you need is php.

[Olliver]

Hello,
I am using the php bbclone (http://bbclone.de/), all it does is tags pages (like the java script equivalent) and is probably only 90% accurate[...]
I'd like to know how you came to that conclusion? The version I'm using at http://bbclone.de/ does count each incoming hit. In case your reply (if any) would be "I tested it with my browser and it didn't register each hit" then my answer is:

1. Up to 0.33.5p3 BBclone only updated the stats if at least 30 seconds have passed since the last update. So clicking several times a test link would show results after at least 30 seconds. Since 0.4.0.pre this behaviour has changed to update after each incoming hit

2. If you click the same page several times with your favorite browser it won't actually request the page from the server each time, but show you a cached result until the page has changed. Additionally, there are browsers like Opera or IE, which have a really hard time in updating their cache results. If you like to get each hit counted you'll have to force your browser to fetch the page each time from the server.

In case you can deliver a proof for you 90% claim I'd be glad to hear about it. If not I'd kindly ask you to refrain from making such statements.

Thank you
Olliver

Maintainer of BBClone.

[DVW86]

Olliver, I have downloaded you're file "bbclone-0.33.5p3.zip" and installed it on my server. For the life of me I can't get it to work (I don't get any messages at all). I have read your help files and your forums, but still no go. I have had good luck in the past installing PHP files. I currently have PHPMyAdmin, PHPBB, and Gallery v1.4.4 all PHP based and running successfully on my machine. My server is Mac 10.2.8 with Apache 2 and PHP 4. Could you please give me a heads up as to what may be wrong? Thanks

[Olliver]

Olliver, I have downloaded you're file "bbclone-0.33.5p3.zip" and installed it on my server. For the life of me I can't get it to work (I don't get any messages at all).
No message means either invalid paths (like http urls) or the code never gets loaded. the latter most likely occurs if the software performed a redirect before reaching the BBClone snippet.
I have read your help files and your forums, but still no go. I have had good luck in the past installing PHP files. I currently have PHPMyAdmin, PHPBB, and Gallery v1.4.4 all PHP based and running successfully on my machine.
PHPBB is another keyword. For most forums you will have to uncomment $BBC_NO_STRING in config.php to prevent BBClone from printing status reports. Also you may need to place the snippet on top of the page, in the event a redirect is performed afterwards (which would result in BBClone code never getting executed).
My server is Mac 10.2.8 with Apache 2 and PHP 4. Could you please give me a heads up as to what may be wrong? Thanks
I'm very interested in reports about BBClone running on MacOsX servers, because I haven't got an idea how it's running there. I guess there might be issues with some environmental variables. At any case, I'd suggest you register at our forums so we can investigate potential issues, since I think BBClone support is slightly offtopic here (and I haven't even got a Mac, which doubles the "offtopic" factor ;))

Olliver

[edesignuk]

Benjamin, so you're MacTech from Spymac?

The stats I showed come from the built in web stats tool from 1and1.com hosting accounts.

[DVW86]

I'm very interested in reports about BBClone running on MacOsX servers, because I haven't got an idea how it's running there. I guess there might be issues with some environmental variables. At any case, I'd suggest you register at our forums so we can investigate potential issues, since I think BBClone support is slightly offtopic here (and I haven't even got a Mac, which doubles the "offtopic" factor ;))

Olliver

Thanks Olliver. I have registered and posted my questions. I look forward to hearing back from you or anyone else.

[wrldwzrd89]

I really do need to spruce up my web site. It is rather plain right now, and I don't have a whole lot of content on it. I'm currently trying to decide what additional material that I have in my archives (on my 17" iMac's hard disk) that I should put up on my web site. If you want to see it, the link is in my signature.

[Benjamin]

Benjamin, so you're MacTech from Spymac?

The stats I showed come from the built in web stats tool from 1and1.com hosting accounts.

yes i am.

[Benjamin]

Hello,

I'd like to know how you came to that conclusion? The version I'm using at http://bbclone.de/ does count each incoming hit. In case your reply (if any) would be "I tested it with my browser and it didn't register each hit" then my answer is:

1. Up to 0.33.5p3 BBclone only updated the stats if at least 30 seconds have passed since the last update. So clicking several times a test link would show results after at least 30 seconds. Since 0.4.0.pre this behaviour has changed to update after each incoming hit

2. If you click the same page several times with your favorite browser it won't actually request the page from the server each time, but show you a cached result until the page has changed. Additionally, there are browsers like Opera or IE, which have a really hard time in updating their cache results. If you like to get each hit counted you'll have to force your browser to fetch the page each time from the server.

In case you can deliver a proof for you 90% claim I'd be glad to hear about it. If not I'd kindly ask you to refrain from making such statements.

Thank you
Olliver

Maintainer of BBClone.

yes and note that i am not using .4. 90%, 99%, 80% it was just an arbitrary number saying it isn't 100%

i was making a 90% cause i just didn't wanna say it counted all the pages and it is based on pages that you tag with the php code, i have other pages that are counted by the server logs that aren't counted by bbclone... i never said it was a bad thing, just saying that was the case for me, plus the few stat dumps that bbclone has done to me in the past.

[Olliver]

note that i am not using .4. 90%, 99%, 80% it was just an arbitrary number saying it isn't 100%
As you said. An arbitrary number without specifying what you're referring to. Which was the reason I asked how you came to that figure.
i was making a 90% cause i just didn't wanna say it counted all the pages and it is based on pages that you tag with the php code, i have other pages that are counted by the server logs that aren't counted by bbclone...
Of course it didn't count the other pages and you already gave yourself the answer why: They didn't contain the code inclusion. This behaviour is fully intentional because there are pages you probably don't want other people to see, just like administration scripts and the likes. But this has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with inaccuracy.
i never said it was a bad thing, just saying that was the case for me, plus the few stat dumps that bbclone has done to me in the past. you were stating BBClone would only be about 90% accurate. This does sound a lot like BBClone isn't able to count pages properly. If you provided the details, which you apparently know about, that in order to count a page you have to insert the code, I wouldn't have said a single word. But instead you wrote:
all it does is tags pages (like the java script equivalent) and is probably only 90% accurate
You may like to reconsider the words you chose then you may be able to understand my position and why I couldn't leave this statement of you uncommented

Olliver

[Benjamin]

You may like to reconsider the words you chose then you may be able to understand my position and why I couldn't leave this statement of you uncommented

Olliver

not really since it isn't really that high on my priority list.

[AngryLawnGnome]

EDIT: Disregard this post. I'm a lazy idiot who doesn't read the previous posts before posting.

How do you get your stats in a bar graph like that?
(not that I'd need it, my site is only good to people who can't make websites.) I just want to see how many of my hits are from me checking how my site looks.