Comments on: Cool custom report: Small-scale but interesting referrers

By: Sandra Elliott

Sandra Elliott — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:32:49 +0000

It’s so exciting to see others doing this! I actually talk about a similar thing I set up about a year ago with a client, before I came to WebTrends, in my training classes. I use it as an example of “creative ways to use the referrers reports.” Now I can point my students to your post, and they can make a custom report to do it automatically. Thanks for sharing!

By: Weehawken

Weehawken — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:07:45 +0000

Genius! I knew it could be done but didn’t have a scooby where to start pulling it together.

By: Mini_Cooper_Boy

Mini_Cooper_Boy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:42:22 +0000

We found this sort of thing a while ago as we were finding we had a lot of referrals from a related product forum.
We now have a dedicated team who actively read the forums and post up replies (including links to our product). We have set this team up with a campaign link which we can now track through the campaign ID’s report.
Seems to work very well

By: Andrew Schwartz

Andrew Schwartz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:05:43 +0000

I like “the world is not random, we just need better analytics” as much as I like the concept of this report.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:46:01 +0000

Your timing is almost perfect. My manager was asking about something exactly like this a few days ago.