How to count bookmarks...
 

Hello people.
Here I am with another question.
Do you know a way to to count how many people bookmark your sites?

Thanks in advance

Saludos

Well you can review your apache logs and at least look for "favicon.ico" in them. Otherwise i think it is just measuring your return traffic from the rest of your traffic.

If someone knows of a better way, i wouldn't mind hearing either.

-AJ

"Well you can review your apache logs and at least look for "favicon.ico" in them."

... will only show you the number of people that bookmarked your site through IE. but you could look for traffic without referer, most of them is bookmarktraffic (but could be from popups too)

http://www.bookmarklottery.com :thumbsup

favicon.ico is loaded for a lot more than bookmarkers - if you're using that your numbers are going to be way, way off. mozilla (definitely and IE 6 (i think) load it when you first go to the site regardless of bookmarking. 'course.. you could just have the bookmarkers bookmark a specific URL on your site and track that...

hey there... can you explain that part to me... why does popup traffic look like a bookmark?

I've found a cool way.
I created a javascript that loads a new immage once people click somewhere to bookmark my page.
In that way the only thing to do is to count how many times and from where the new image was loaded.

It works really well.

Cheers!!!

"load it when you first go to the site regardless of bookmarking"

... wrong, it does not get loaded unless they bookmark the site, that favicon.ico is the little icon that shows up next to the title of the bookmarked site (within IE favourites). once a site has been bookmarked it´s requested in the html root of the bookmarked domain, if it´s there it get replaced by the default IE-icon ..

".. why does popup traffic look like a bookmark?"

... hi nina, sorry for confusing you, popup traffic does not look like bookmark traffic in your logs. the only similarity there is, is that it comes in (99% of it) without referer. so I thought a good way of measuring bookmark traffic might be counting accesses without referers ... unfortunatly it could be popup traffic too ...