Pr question

DragonEye · 10-26-2003, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PhilC

(this quote is from another post)There is no such thing as 'site rank'. PageRank deals only in pages - sites don't enter into it.

hmm, I have a question then.

I'm currently designing a site and I will have a links section in the site, people will be able to submit the url of their websites. I would then check if they have a recip button or link to me on their site.

But here comes the trouble: I would like to give every one of them a unique id and let them send their links to "http://www.guitarresources.net/refer.php?id=their id number"
That way I can see how many visitors each site has sent to me.

When you say that pagerank only goes up on the page that is linked to you are telling me that by using this system I won't improve the pagerank of my indexpage by using this system.

Is that true?

Or i'm a wrong?

grtz

DragonEye

Leader of Men · 10-26-2003, 06:20 AM

You can just install Awstats and see how many referrals you get from them

Plus, if you dont have a stats system, you should get one.

Rob · 10-26-2003, 06:48 AM

If you have your affiliates send hits to for example guitarresources.net/refer.php?id=933, your main page will not get PR credit for these inbound links. Worse, not a single page on your website will get credit.

I recommend installing a statistics script to keep track of how many hits your affiliates are sending, and be sure to have your affiliates link to your main url (http://www.guitarresources.net).

Thanol · 10-26-2003, 07:02 AM

If the refer.php use a 301 redirect won't the PR transfer over to the page that is being redirected to?

Rob · 10-26-2003, 07:09 AM

I don't think so, but I'm not 100% sure.

*taps Phil on the shoulder*

John Scott · 10-26-2003, 07:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob

If you have your affiliates send hits to for example guitarresources.net/refer.php?id=933, your main page will not get PR credit for these inbound links. Worse, not a single page on your website will get credit.

Pretty much that. The referral code messes things up. It is treated as a unique URL.

DragonEye · 10-26-2003, 07:27 AM

and if I would integrate the referral system into the index.php? This would of course slow down the index page a bit, but it would transfer the PR to the right page, no?

I think I'm gonna abondon the whole idea but I still would like to know if it would work.

DragonEye

Rob · 10-26-2003, 07:34 AM

That basically equals a statistics script. Here's a nice one:
http://www.xav.com/scripts/axs/

Leader of Men · 10-26-2003, 10:19 AM

I prefer AWStats myself...
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/