Re: [Summary-Talk] Tracking visitors, best practices?

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/2/03 3:29 PM John Readwin (appsupport@netextras.com) wrote:

>My question(s) is: What is the best way to achieve this? What should I 
>code into my site to allow Summary to track the visitor from entry into 
>the site all the way through to purchase, while keeping track of the 
>search engine he got their with as well as the search term used?

You shouldn't have to do anything special. As long as there is some 
specific page that only comes up when a purchase is made, you can set 
that page up as the Goal and Summary will report purchases by Search 
Phrase and by Referring Domain (search engine).

>Also , is there a danger in losing search engine status by changing 
>pages from .html to .lasso?
>Do you know if most search engines now recognize  the .lasso extension? 

Most of them work with .lasso, but I have no idea if they all do.

Jason

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