DragonList questions (and answers) thread

[LD]

Simon, just curious, what is the reason for not wanting to run webmaster submitted sites through the click tracking script? Sorry to sidetrack, but you've got me wondering if the click tracking script has some disadvantage...(?)

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Preacher

I would probably just vew the listed sites by type, ordered by click descending to give me a general idea of how things were going.

Yes, that could work if I had click-tracking turned on for everything. But my real goal here is to find a way to enable click-tracking *only* on the sponsor Hosted Free Sites but to not use the click-tracking on the webmaster-submitted Free Sites. Which it really seems I can't do, so I'll mostly likely just have tracking turned off for all Free Sites.

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

Simon, just curious, what is the reason for not wanting to run webmaster submitted sites through the click tracking script? Sorry to sidetrack, but you've got me wondering if the click tracking script has some disadvantage...(?)

I guess it depends on how someone defines disadvantages, and also on considering who would be disadvantaged. DragonList's built-in click tracking requires that the links to the Free Sites run through a script, so the links become something like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/linklist/go.php?sid=4

Now, I do think it would be a decided advantage for me to be able to track which (Hosted) Free Sites are getting the most clicks, and even to be able to supply submitters with click stats for their submitted sites. However, the reason I'd turn off the click-tracking feature is that I think most Free Site builders and submitters would prefer to have a link direct to their Free Site from the Link List page instead of having the link point to a script location on the Link List site.

I'm sure most Link Lists wouldn't want a submitter running their recip button/link through a script on the submitter's own domain instead of having that link point directly to the Link List's main or cat page. So I think it's fair to link directly back to the submitted Free Sites too.

Now, if times are changing and submitters don't care about the links being direct to their Free Sites, and would prefer to have the click stats instead, I'd certainly like to use the tracking features of DragonList. But I'd have to hear from a lot of good submitters about that before I'd turn click-tracking on.

So...anyone else want to share any tips, tricks or problems and workarounds with DragonList that may benefit other users?