Site translation & its affect on tracking ref links - GoFuckYourself.com

spacedog · 01-09-2006, 11:59 AM

online translation links found at search pages, etc. when a visitor is using these to visit your pages, does it fuck up the tracking for sales, or mess up reflinks? The links work & go to the right pages, but there's code in the string for translation. I have alot of japanese traffic that uses google translation & i was wondering how this translation will affect tracking & sales. When the visitor clicks the reflink, the site they visit will also be translated.

here's an example of GFY translated into japanese.
http://translate.google.com/translat...l%3Dja%26lr%3D

spacedog · 01-09-2006, 12:01 PM

strange...

SmokeyTheBear · 01-09-2006, 12:03 PM

i would think a translation tool wouldn't translate urls , only readable content, if it translated urls it would never work..

SmokeyTheBear · 01-09-2006, 12:05 PM

ok wait i get what your saying.. spacash has its sites translated into several languages, and all the graphics are translated as well.

spacedog · 01-09-2006, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

i would think a translation tool wouldn't translate urls , only readable content, if it translated urls it would never work..

No, it does not translate the url, but it adds a string of code to the url.

for example, here is the actual reflink http://www.hostave3.net/hvw/fhg/h22/index.html?3684
which after going through the translation ends up being a completely different string;

http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl...004-07,GGLD:en

the url is kind of long, so see status bar to see what I am talking about.

?3684 becomes %3f3684

TheDoc · 01-09-2006, 12:59 PM

%3f is the same as ?, encoded vs not encoded. Not a biggy, many html editors will do this for spaces, question marks, quotes, etc.. The browser will translate it correctly, and your site probably will too.

If you are worried about the tracking, just check that the epoch post has the webmaster ID.

01-09-2006, 11:59 AM	#1
spacedog Yes that IS me. Bitch. Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 14,149	Site translation & its affect on tracking ref links online translation links found at search pages, etc. when a visitor is using these to visit your pages, does it fuck up the tracking for sales, or mess up reflinks? The links work & go to the right pages, but there's code in the string for translation. I have alot of japanese traffic that uses google translation & i was wondering how this translation will affect tracking & sales. When the visitor clicks the reflink, the site they visit will also be translated. here's an example of GFY translated into japanese. http://translate.google.com/translat...l%3Dja%26lr%3D

01-09-2006, 12:03 PM	#3
SmokeyTheBear ►SouthOfHeaven Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: PlanetEarth MyBoardRank: GerbilMaster My-Penis-Size: extralarge MyWeapon: Computer Posts: 28,609	i would think a translation tool wouldn't translate urls , only readable content, if it translated urls it would never work.. __________________ hatisblack at yahoo.com

01-09-2006, 12:05 PM	#4
SmokeyTheBear ►SouthOfHeaven Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: PlanetEarth MyBoardRank: GerbilMaster My-Penis-Size: extralarge MyWeapon: Computer Posts: 28,609	ok wait i get what your saying.. spacash has its sites translated into several languages, and all the graphics are translated as well. __________________ hatisblack at yahoo.com

01-09-2006, 12:59 PM	#6
TheDoc Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Currently Incognito Posts: 13,827	%3f is the same as ?, encoded vs not encoded. Not a biggy, many html editors will do this for spaces, question marks, quotes, etc.. The browser will translate it correctly, and your site probably will too. If you are worried about the tracking, just check that the epoch post has the webmaster ID. __________________ ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825 It's all disambiguation

01-09-2006, 12:01 PM	#2
spacedog Yes that IS me. Bitch. Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 14,149	strange...