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Last edited on 2016-05-20 07:38:44 by JavaWoman [Replaces old-style internal links with new pipe-split links.]
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>>See also: AdvancedReferrersHandler>>There is much room to improve the current [[Docs:ReferrersInfo | referrer handling scripts]]. Here's a couple of ideas, some more urgent, other merely optional. Comments are welcome.
~Currently, Wikka allows grouping referrers by //domain name//. An interesting feature of advanced log analyzers (like the GPL-licensed [[http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ | webalizer]]) is that they allow referrers to be //grouped// on the basis of more complex URL patterns. Grouping allows to display, say, all the referrers from google.* on a single line. The user should be given the possibility to toggle referrers-grouping on/off. Beside search engines, referrers-grouping might also be interesting for extracting //wikis// from the list of referrers (often, the presence of camelcase patterns in the URL is a good indicator of the referrer as a Wiki). And - why not - to extract Wikka sites referring to this server :)
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>>See also: AdvancedReferrersHandler>>There is much room to improve the current [[Docs:ReferrersInfo referrer handling scripts]]. Here's a couple of ideas, some more urgent, other merely optional. Comments are welcome.
~Currently, Wikka allows grouping referrers by //domain name//. An interesting feature of advanced log analyzers (like the GPL-licensed [[http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ webalizer]]) is that they allow referrers to be //grouped// on the basis of more complex URL patterns. Grouping allows to display, say, all the referrers from google.* on a single line. The user should be given the possibility to toggle referrers-grouping on/off. Beside search engines, referrers-grouping might also be interesting for extracting //wikis// from the list of referrers (often, the presence of camelcase patterns in the URL is a good indicator of the referrer as a Wiki). And - why not - to extract Wikka sites referring to this server :)


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Edited on 2008-01-28 00:11:28 by JavaWoman [Modified links pointing to docs server]
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>>See also: AdvancedReferrersHandler>>There is much room to improve the current [[Docs:ReferrersInfo referrer handling scripts]]. Here's a couple of ideas, some more urgent, other merely optional. Comments are welcome.
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>>See also: AdvancedReferrersHandler>>There is much room to improve the current [[ReferrersInfo referrer handling scripts]]. Here's a couple of ideas, some more urgent, other merely optional. Comments are welcome.


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Edited on 2005-05-28 11:48:07 by JavaWoman [move to subcategory]
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Edited on 2005-05-28 09:07:41 by JavaWoman [adding see also box]
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===== Handling Wikka Referrers=====

>>See also: AdvancedReferrersHandler>>There is much room to improve the current [[ReferrersInfo referrer handling scripts]]. Here's a couple of ideas, some more urgent, other merely optional. Comments are welcome.

~-**Mass-blacklisting**
~
~Wikis are in general prone to attacks by spambots that use massive linking to increase a domain's visibility in SERPs. It would be useful if we had the possibility to respond to such attacks by //mass-blacklisting// spamming sites. Possible solutions include the use of //wildcards// for matching particular URL patterns or //selection boxes// to select multiple domains to be blacklisted.
~-**Masking search engine**
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~Most of the visits to Wikis with rich content come from search engines. Several log analyzer allow the user to mask/unmask search engines from the referrer list.
~-**Grouping referrers**
~
~Currently, Wikka allows grouping referrers by //domain name//. An interesting feature of advanced log analyzers (like the GPL-licensed [[http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ webalizer]]) is that they allow referrers to be //grouped// on the basis of more complex URL patterns. Grouping allows to display, say, all the referrers from google.* on a single line. The user should be given the possibility to toggle referrers-grouping on/off. Beside search engines, referrers-grouping might also be interesting for extracting //wikis// from the list of referrers (often, the presence of camelcase patterns in the URL is a good indicator of the referrer as a Wiki). And - why not - to extract Wikka sites referring to this server :)
~-**Extracting search engine keywords**
~
~Advanced log analyzers allow the extraction of keywords from referrers. This allows smart statistics to be built on the keywords or keyword-groups that maximize a site's visibility. But this probably leads us too far from the needs of a Wiki referrer analyzer...

-- DarTar


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===== Handling Wikka Referrers=====

There is much room to improve the current [[ReferrersInfo referrer handling scripts]]. Here's a couple of ideas, some more urgent, other merely optional. Comments are welcome.

~-**Mass-blacklisting**
~
~Wikis are in general prone to attacks by spambots that use massive linking to increase a domain's visibility in SERPs. It would be useful if we had the possibility to respond to such attacks by //mass-blacklisting// spamming sites. Possible solutions include the use of //wildcards// for matching particular URL patterns or //selection boxes// to select multiple domains to be blacklisted.
~-**Masking search engine**
~
~Most of the visits to Wikis with rich content come from search engines. Several log analyzer allow the user to mask/unmask search engines from the referrer list.
~-**Grouping referrers**
~
~Currently, Wikka allows grouping referrers by //domain name//. An interesting feature of advanced log analyzers (like the GPL-licensed [[http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ webalizer]]) is that they allow referrers to be //grouped// on the basis of more complex URL patterns. Grouping allows to display, say, all the referrers from google.* on a single line. The user should be given the possibility to toggle referrers-grouping on/off. Beside search engines, referrers-grouping might also be interesting for extracting //wikis// from the list of referrers (often, the presence of camelcase patterns in the URL is a good indicator of the referrer as a Wiki). And - why not - to extract Wikka sites referring to this server :)
~-**Extracting search engine keywords**
~
~Advanced log analyzers allow the extraction of keywords from referrers. This allows smart statistics to be built on the keywords or keyword-groups that maximize a site's visibility. But this probably leads us too far from the needs of a Wiki referrer analyzer...

-- DarTar


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