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| Benjamin |
 Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:36 am Post subject: As posting gets busier this may help |
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On the main forum page there are links:
"View posts made since your last visit"
Since you've last logged in these are all the new posts.
"View discussions that you posted in"
This will show you all the threads you've made posts with the most recent response at the top. It's a great tool for seeing if anyone has responded to you.
"View unanswered posts"
If you don't like to see posts not replied to at all you can use this and tell someone nobody cares about their ideas. (or better yet maybe you can get the topic going) heh.
These have been around for a while, but thought I'd draw your attention to them! |
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| poornewb |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Thats good to know so we can skip over the post whores,
Im probably included in there some times. |
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| geb9696 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I have been using these features for a while now. They are helpful because you can always see what has been posted since the last time you logged on the forums. |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there any way I can clear the "black tag" that new threads have? I look at the forums and it is colored in to indicate a new post, but if I don't feel like reading something can I clear it so I don't continue seeing (and therefore thinking) there is something new? |
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| geb9696 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Its easier to just use the view new posts since last visit button. Then you can exit out of the website and then log back on and it clears all of the old posts. |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett wrote: | | Is there any way I can clear the "black tag" that new threads have? I look at the forums and it is colored in to indicate a new post, but if I don't feel like reading something can I clear it so I don't continue seeing (and therefore thinking) there is something new? |
On the bottom left right after all the forums you'll see:
"Mark all forums read"
Then you can start over fresh. This one also comes in handy a lot.
Maybe I should move it by the other ones. |
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| geb9696 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| The number of posts has really picked up lately. Is this becuase of Ben offering 2% of the website to the first 5 members to pass 1,000 posts? Or is it all the new members that have been coming to the website? I also was curious about how many page views does einvesting get a day? |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Pageviews is about 5000 per day.
I'm not sure about the activity, but the more active it is the more likely new people will join and post as well.
| geb9696 wrote: | | The number of posts has really picked up lately. Is this becuase of Ben offering 2% of the website to the first 5 members to pass 1,000 posts? Or is it all the new members that have been coming to the website? I also was curious about how many page views does einvesting get a day? | |
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| geb9696 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| 5,000 a day is impressive. Now does that count every time my ip logs onto the site as a different view or does that mean that there are 5,000 different ip's viewing the site each day? |
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| Dave Rathbun |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Page views is page views.  Meaning every time you view a page, it increments by one. Sessions are another matter, they're typically tracked by IP address and time. So if you visit in the morning, leave, and come back later that afternoon from the same IP address, it's two sessions.
Hits are "items" served by the web server... every page view has multiple hits, one for each graphic element and so on. So the metrics are hits (worthless), pageviews (a reasonable measure of how active a site is) and sessions (who is visiting the site and when).
I assume when Ben said 5,000 page views he literally meant page views. The number of "hits" would be higher, the number of sessions will be lower. The number of page views per session often ranges around 10-15, so 5,000 page views would result in somewhere between 350-500 sessions. |
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| geb9696 |
| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you. I was wondering how that worked. |
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| Dave Rathbun |
| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| geb9696 wrote: | | Thank you. I was wondering how that worked. |
You're welcome.
When I moved to a web host that had a legitimate statistics package I was amazed at what I could find out. For example, I manage one site that regularly has visits from over 100 different country domains in the space of a month. You can find out what search terms people are using to find your site. You can find out which other sites are referring people to your site (have links to you).
I was really bored one day. Normally I look at the top 100 entries in most of the log files and skip the rest. For some reason on this day I read all the way to the bottom of the referral log. At or near the very bottom of the log was a note that someone had managed to get into the log. (Probably by customizing the header that their browser reports to the web server.) Normally the referral log will contain a domain / page of a web site that has a link to you. This one read:
| Quote: | | Reading referral logs sucks. Get a real job. |
I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair.  |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | I was really bored one day. Normally I look at the top 100 entries in most of the log files and skip the rest. For some reason on this day I read all the way to the bottom of the referral log. At or near the very bottom of the log was a note that someone had managed to get into the log. (Probably by customizing the header that their browser reports to the web server.) Normally the referral log will contain a domain / page of a web site that has a link to you. This one read:
| Quote: | | Reading referral logs sucks. Get a real job. |
I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair. |
Thats a good story.
And I never looked for those things in the forum, thanks for pointing those out Ben. |
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| moreno917 |
| Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | | geb9696 wrote: | | Thank you. I was wondering how that worked. |
You're welcome.
When I moved to a web host that had a legitimate statistics package I was amazed at what I could find out. For example, I manage one site that regularly has visits from over 100 different country domains in the space of a month. You can find out what search terms people are using to find your site. You can find out which other sites are referring people to your site (have links to you).
I was really bored one day. Normally I look at the top 100 entries in most of the log files and skip the rest. For some reason on this day I read all the way to the bottom of the referral log. At or near the very bottom of the log was a note that someone had managed to get into the log. (Probably by customizing the header that their browser reports to the web server.) Normally the referral log will contain a domain / page of a web site that has a link to you. This one read:
| Quote: | | Reading referral logs sucks. Get a real job. |
I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair. |
thanks, I needed a laugh right about now |
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