09 October, 2009
- ArtWanted.com Staff
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Small Change in Statistics Tracking
Over the last few months, we have really been studying the web traffic we get to our site. We have discovered that there are a lot of search spiders/robots that are surfing the site to index our pages in search engines (like Google, Yahoo & Bing).
This is a good thing, because it will get your ArtWanted.com portfolio ranked higher in the search engine pages. However, there is one problem. Often these robots will record a hit to your portfolio images, when it was not "technically" a real person looking at your artwork.
In the last week, we have changed the tracking of your portfolio, so that these robots/spiders will no longer record a "hit" to your images or portfolio. While this may decrease the number of hits some of you see on your stats reports, we feel that it's a more accurate number to report to you.
Keep in mind that this does not mean that fewer people are looking at your art, only that we are filtering out the automated bots that scan our site daily.
On a related note, the research we have been doing is in preparation for some new stats reports that will be coming out soon. Stay tuned...
