| Bill Stephenson 2004-12-09, 3:55 am |
| Thanks for the pointer Bob,
I read a few of the Google links you pointed out and now understand why
this cannot be done. I guess I'll have to work a little bit around this
one. I found that I can set/read/manipulate a cookie with JavaScript,
(GoLive has some tools for this) but I haven't tested them yet. If this
is so, I can link pages from the "Home Page" to my CGI script and try
to measure the data I need from there, which is another topic, but I'll
bring it up now anyway...
Google Ads.....
Mainly what I want to know is if people are using a clients "Google"
ads as a gateway into their site. It's fine that they get new users
from Google, but I want to encourage repeat visitors to bookmark the
site with a "Nag Screen" if they keep using Google ads to enter the
site, and I suspect this is so.
Another potential problem I see with Google ads is their "Affiliate"
program. What stops someone from setting one of these up on a site they
own, then clicking links, or even worse, writing a "Bot" to click the
ads Google delivers? (aside going to jail for fraud, which we really
can't depend on). I suspect this may be happening too...
I've been watching their log files in real time and I've see some
repeated odd behavior that makes me suspicious. A user comes in from
Google and hits the same 4 pages so fast that they cannot possibly even
be looking at them, then they disappear, and my client pays Google and
their affiliate for this. I dunno, maybe I'm just paranoid, or tired,
or both....
Any thoughts on this?
Kindest Regards,
Bill Stephenson
On Dec 8, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Bob Showalter wrote:
>
> Your code to set the cookie is OK, but I don't think you can do this
> from
> SSI; only the body of the response is used, not the headers (where the
> cookie is set).
>
> Googling for "set cookie from ssi" turns up lots of discussion of this
> topic.
>
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