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sybakaos · #1 01-09-2007, 07:52 PM

Hi,

I have this idea, a hack that counts how many visitors a user has referred to a forum. The user is given an own private URL in which he adds the URL of a thread of the forum he's a member of. Example:

www.forum.com/hack.php?id=user1&url=www.forum.com/showthread.php?id=3255
www.forum.com/hack.php?id=user1&url=www.forum.com/showthread.php?id=3536
www.forum.com/hack.php?id=user1&url=www.forum.com/showthread.php?id=4212

www.forum.com/hack.php?id=user2&url=www.forum.com/showthread.php?id=6613
www.forum.com/hack.php?id=user2&url=www.forum.com/showthread.php?id=8655
www.forum.com/hack.php?id=user2&url=www.forum.com/showthread.php?id=3634

When someone from a newssite for example clicks such a link, that visitor is referred to the thread in the URL awarding 1 point to member whose referral link it is.

Users can post those links on various related websites and eventually a list appears showing who is the best in terms of sending traffic to the forum. This can be seen as a form of a competition, just like in a contest: "Who can send the most unique visitors to ForumX!" for example.

Possible additions could be:
1) make it a unique visitor counter instead of hit counter.
2) show websites the user has posted on (referrers).

I would have much use for such a hack!

Greets,
SybaKaos.

ConqSoft · #2 01-09-2007, 07:58 PM

vBulletin already has referers built in. Just add this to any URL if the URL has other URL parameters:

Code:

 &referrerid=[your user id]

Or this if it does not:

Code:

 ?referrerid=[your user id]

sybakaos · #3 01-09-2007, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

vBulletin already has referers built in. Just add this to any URL if the URL has other URL parameters:

Code:

 &referrerid=[your user id]

Or this if it does not:

Code:

 ?referrerid=[your user id]

Hi,

But that's very limited? As far as I know vBulletin standard has a user referral tracker which tracks who registered using X as a referral. What I tried to ask for is more of a toplist. Showing which users generate the most clicks to a site, in this case a forum.

Greets,
SybaKaos.

ConqSoft · #4 01-09-2007, 08:34 PM

Here's a hack to show your top referers:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101000

Oh, you're talking about strictly clicks?

sybakaos · #5 01-09-2007, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

Here's a hack to show your top referers:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101000

Oh, you're talking about strictly clicks?

Yes, clicks. It's just difficult to explain and I'm sorry that my bragging about "referrers" caused confusion.

fishmaster · #6 08-19-2010, 06:30 AM

This would be an awesome tool, anyone ever have this created?

Boofo · #7 08-19-2010, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishmaster

This would be an awesome tool, anyone ever have this created?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=243455

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