Handling Wikka Referrers
See also: AdvancedReferrersHandler
There is much room to improve the current referrer handling scripts. Here's a couple of ideas, some more urgent, other merely optional. Comments are welcome.- Mass-blacklisting
Wikis are in general prone to attacks by spambots that use massive linking to increase a domain's visibility in SERPs. It would be useful if we had the possibility to respond to such attacks by mass-blacklisting spamming sites. Possible solutions include the use of wildcards for matching particular URL patterns or selection boxes to select multiple domains to be blacklisted.
- Masking search engine
Most of the visits to Wikis with rich content come from search engines. Several log analyzer allow the user to mask/unmask search engines from the referrer list.
- Grouping referrers
Currently, Wikka allows grouping referrers by domain name. An interesting feature of advanced log analyzers (like the GPL-licensed webalizer) is that they allow referrers to be grouped on the basis of more complex URL patterns. Grouping allows to display, say, all the referrers from google.* on a single line. The user should be given the possibility to toggle referrers-grouping on/off. Beside search engines, referrers-grouping might also be interesting for extracting wikis from the list of referrers (often, the presence of camelcase patterns in the URL is a good indicator of the referrer as a Wiki). And - why not - to extract Wikka sites referring to this server :)
- Extracting search engine keywords
Advanced log analyzers allow the extraction of keywords from referrers. This allows smart statistics to be built on the keywords or keyword-groups that maximize a site's visibility. But this probably leads us too far from the needs of a Wiki referrer analyzer...
-- DarTar
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