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Thread ID: 59930 2005-07-17 06:59:00 How to find links in Forums/Websites Morgenmuffel (187) PC World Chat
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372878 2005-07-17 06:59:00 Hi All
When this new version of the forum came about sometime before Xmas last year, metla started a photoshop compteition type thing here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz), which a few of us entered, I entered with some pics hosted on my domain, looking at my webstats 7 months later i still get traffic to those pics from that thread which i suppose is to be expected but the weird thing is, is that the initial traffic came from NZ, Aus and the US, but more recently the traffic has moved to Italy, Belgium, netherlands, spain, china etc just one or 2 hits from each, but well not the countries i would expect, and some of the pictures are showing up in search engines too apparently
ie some poor frog entered 'All black haka' in the french version of aol search and ended up with my picture (which probably wasn't what they were after)

Now after that pointless ramble

How do i find the page that links to my website on another website, as in my stats have a
"links from external pages not including search engines" section how do i search these websites for the url of my website, most of the links have come from forums
and before you say use the search function I have tried that on this forum (where I know for a fact there is a link to my site) and i seem to be unable to search for a URL it just doesn't work

Thanks in advance

Well hopefully this has actually made sense
Morgenmuffel (187)
372879 2005-07-17 09:39:00 i get the same "links from external pages not including search engines" on my websites stats page. Mine gives the exact page that the link is posted from, which is often funny. The amount of links from travel sites to the "Millerton Sound Company" which has nothing to do with the township astounds me! Don't these guys actually look at what they are linking to?

Anyway, many of the links come from me posting links from this and other forums, usually for screenshots and the like. In my case i've got links like forum etc, so it would be fairly easy to track back to the exact link if i so chose.

What kind of reffering links are your stats bringing up?
personthingy (1670)
372880 2005-07-18 00:57:00 i get the same "links from external pages not including search engines" on my websites stats page. Mine gives the exact page that the link is posted from, which is often funny. The amount of links from travel sites to the "Millerton Sound Company" which has nothing to do with the township astounds me! Don't these guys actually look at what they are linking to?

Anyway, many of the links come from me posting links from this and other forums, usually for screenshots and the like. In my case i've got links like forum etc, so it would be fairly easy to track back to the exact link if i so chose.

What kind of reffering links are your stats bringing up?

the reffering links are like
(I did this one yesterday)
pressf1.pcworld.co.nz
which has no thread number so i can't find where its linking from on the site yet i know it is in a thread on the site, but well i don't get a referral number
Morgenmuffel (187)
372881 2005-07-18 01:44:00 the reffering links are like
(I did this one yesterday)
pressf1.pcworld.co.nz
which has no thread number so i can't find where its linking from on the siteOne word.... Bugger! :badpc:

Whose your websites host? can you d/load the server logs?
personthingy (1670)
372882 2005-07-19 00:12:00 Yes i've just found the raw logs and they are a lot more helpful

Cheers
Morgenmuffel (187)
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