cerebral odd jobs

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Referer is a common misspelling of the word referrer. It is so common, … More generally, a referer is the URL of a previous item which led to this request …

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer

I have the larger versions of the images here –

• http://flickr.com/photos/hlthenvt/sets/72157594304156911/detail/ Edublogses

Log into your edublogs (or uniblogs, ESLblogs, etc.). Under admin go to
dashboard | manage | referers

You’ll see something like the following, but without the green and red colors. I normally turn off the display of internal referrers since they are all me fussing with or correcting posts.If you time it right, you won’t see any referrers because wherever the marker is, it’s midnight.

In this case, look at the monthly results.

There are 2 columns. The left column identifies whence the visitor came. The right column shows where they landed (which post or URL they clicked). Normally these data are not colored. With Firefox I can check to see if any of my blog pages are incorrectly coded (remember the slash that could be so forward?

There is another problem which can be revealed with the referrer. When inserting links into a post, be sure that the link begins with http:// If the URL is inserted without the preceding http:// then the visitor will be returned to your non-existent page, instead of to the site you wished to send them to. This appears in the referrer as year/month/date/www.othersite.com as if it were a regular post slug. Clicking on this in the referrer will bring you to a non-existent post in your blog. Unfortunately, you’ll have to track your incorrect entry, but it isn’t usually too difficult to figure out.

The right hand column is your URL (slug) of your entries, not the title of your post. Clicking on the link (URL) in the left column should take you back to where your visitor left before coming to your blog. In some cases you will not find valid links, indicating possibly that someone received your blog entry in an E-mail or feed reader. The right hand columns may be sorted by clicking the column header (number of hits, time, etc.)

Closer view of the most interesting part of referrers — are your posts and pages coded properly, i.e., does your blog have valid links? Broken links may occur because the date was changed on a post, but not all the references (citations) to that post. Changing the slug (the hyphenated text after the date) will also result in a dead link.

Keep in mind that the logs are for all visitors and all the entries they see. It isn’t possible with this plug-in or with multi-user WordPress to trace the viewing habits of a particular visitor (I think). Each entry in the blog, page or post, has a number so there is no need to uniquely identify each entry by its date and slug. Life would be less complicated without the date/slug (see Lorelle VanFossen’s blog).

Wishyoubest referrer.

Who knows what this really is? I think the wishyoubest came originally in the form of a spam comment. They may have coded themselves badly so whenever “they” clicked on their link, it leads to a “Not Found”, see next.

If, at step Referrers 2, you can recognize a spam referrer, then one can check the box marked blacklist.

I don’t know if that then prevents them (spammer) from gaining access to the blog, from that address. However, those websites are logged in your blacklist.

This was [maybe] posted using the MS Windows Live Writer Beta, a possible blog client which can save and retrieve blog entries (like w.bloggar) and write and edit off-line, to multiple blogs. It also can spell-check before publishing (like MS Word) and automatically creates backups at intervals during writing.Unfortunately, it has timed out during posting so I have copied the html code into the edublogs editor. The hyperlinks aren’t coded properly (incorrectly displayed but accurate) so will have to see what that problem is. There is extra coding (maybe endemic to MS and the web). However, manipulating images is easier. Not really. Half the images have been coded wrong so aren’t yet apparent. Well, it is beta

Hmmm, each time I add text, the images disappear. Will fix later.

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