How Can You Determine How Many Bookmarks Your Site is Recieving?
 

Is their a way to get detailed bookmark stats or even to tell how many times your site is bookmarked within a certain time frame?

Thanks

Bookmarks are typically done on the client side alone, with no server-side involvement, so there isn't really any consistent way to determine if a user has bookmarked a given webpage.

Having said that, there is some Javascript that you can use (in Internet Explorer only) to prompt the user to bookmark a given webpage in their web browser. You could theoretically have the user click a link which recorded their bookmark request, then once that is completed, output the javascript to prompt them to actually do the bookmarking. However, since this is Internet Explorer only, it is not recommended, and also most users bookmark pages wherever they want, not by clicking a link to bookmark pages.

So, in short, there isn't a reliable, consistent, cross-browser way to determine this.

My UCJ-C and TM3 trade scripts spots them

I currently use the javascript you are referring to and I see the javascript file in my logs but but I'm sure this is because of page impressions.

Thanks for your info

TM3? You have a link?

Whatever it is spotting, there is NO indication given back to webservers that a given website has been bookmarked in an unassisted manner by a person viewing a page. Any user can hit Ctrl-D on any webpage and create a bookmark in most major web browsers, without the website being any the wiser. This isn't like cookies, where a website can set a cookie, then check later to see if the cookie got set or not. Those scripts you mention must be using a technique similar to what I have described previously above, because there is no other way to learn who has bookmarked you, when, or why.

I use Sextracker to get the bookmarked surffers. There are many reports that are very good in details to trace the browsing behavior.

True. Serverside scripts can only make an educated guess... (eg. a user enters your site without sending a referrer with the first GET request, but he does send referrers with all other GET requests <-- possible bookmarked traffic or type-in)

sextracker will work for u

there is no way how to distinguish between bookmark and direct typing of the URL into browser. but it doesn't matter whether the page is bookmarked in the browse or surfer's brain :thumbsup

The old version of internet explorer did a search for "favicon.ico" every time a bookmark was made. So if you don't use a bookmark, look at the "failed requests" list in your logs and that'll be the numebr of bookmarks you got form people who use an older version of IE.

you can solve that problem whit simple client wich you can download from google.