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[Anonymous]

Hello There,

We dealt with the conversion topic just recently here

What do you mean by “every time you get a click through” , is that any time someone clicks on a link / banner?

Weblight

[SonyBravo]

I think that spiders do click through.

To be honest i would completely ignore click throughs as any form of reliable performance gauge. As the logging of click throughs varies greatly between affiliate stat programmes.

[Anonymous]

To minimize (but not entirely eliminate) false alarms, you should have a single file to track banner clicks (which it sounds like you already do). Then disallow this file in your robots.txt as follows:

Disallow: /click.php

This will prevent the good robots (Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, etc.) from tripping the alarm.

Next, you should set up a trap to catch and ban the bad robots. There are lots of articles on the net about this; see this page for an example. I would caution you to not use an obvious name such as “/bot-trap/” since this method has been around long enough I think most bot programmers would be smart enough to prevent their bots from going into something with the words “bot” and/or “trap” in its name. Instead, use a name which sounds like it would be a legitimate link.

Lastly, patience is the most important component. There’s no simple formula for determing what your conversion rate will be because there are so many factors involved, but I wouldn’t expect it to reach or exceed 1% for several months.

Profitable affiliates can probably chime in with more helpful stats about conversion rates than I can.

[Lucretia]

just get a free account at countomat.com or sitemeter.com

the first one will give you the info you are looking for (#visitors,keywords,referring pages,exit clicks etc).

It is simple just copy the code wherever you want to in your website.

It works fine.

Rick

[KamielM]

Thanks alot for the help – much appreciated.

One quick question though, if I want to list a number of files that the robots shouldn’t be clicking through to, how do I do it? What format should the list take?

[Anonymous]

@MortimerJazz 153119 wrote:

if I want to list a number of files that the robots shouldn’t be clicking through to, how do I do it? What format should the list take?

Disallow: /file1.html
Disallow: /file2.html
Disallow: /folder1/filename.html
Disallow: /folder2/filename.html

etc.

To disallow everything within a subfolder, use:

Disallow: /banned-folder/

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