RE: [Summary-Talk] Referrers One Report

["dac@xxxxxxxxxxx" <dac@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent, no need to panic then :)

Thanks Jason

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[mailto:owner-summary-talk@lists.summary.net] On Behalf Of Jason Linhart
Sent: 07 March 2005 19:19
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Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] Referrers One Report


dac@Sell365.com wrote:
> On the Referrers One report does it only show the latest full url for 
> a given domain?

The following comments apply to all of the Referrer reports, including 
the Referrer Report, Referrers Over Time, New Referrers, Referrers One, 
and Referrers Two reports.

For referrers, Summary tracks the portion of the referring URL up to the
first question mark, ie Summary does not track the query strings. The
portion of the referring URL after the first question mark is used for
search word/phrase analysis, and for the Full Referrers report, but in
neither case are all of the query strings fully tracked.

For search word/phrase analysis the search phrase is extracted and the
remainder of the query string is discarded. The Full Referrers report
guesses at the twelve most commonly occurring query strings and tracks 
only them.

Only the first portion of the referring URL, the portion before the 
first question mark, is displayed in the reports. Those URLs are also 
clickable links. The link used when clicking on one of those URLs often 
includes a query string. This query string is included so that there is 
a higher chance of the link actually leading to a place where your site 
is referred to.

The particular query string used in a link is a rough approximation of 
the most commonly occurring query string for that referring URL. The 
selection is only approximate, so while you will often see the most 
common query string for that URL, you will sometimes see a randomly 
selected query string.

Jason

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