[MT-users] greatest hits

[Jem Finer]

That's very cunning . . . and the stats are interesting . . . never 
looked at them before. Might try it out

thanks

Jem

On 7 Jun 2004, at 20:44, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> Je 2004-06-07 19:24:43 +0100, Jem Finer skribis:
>> does anyone know if there is a way to get MT to create links to the
>> most popular bits of a blog ? I'm sure this is a tall order seeing as
>> how mostly you get a month worth at a time ?
>
> I've wondered about this as well.
>
> Part of the problem is that most people who follow a blog hit the thing
> regularly looking at the home page. So the webserver sees a request for
> "home page" and dutifully serves it up (or if not, I get some pain :-)
>
> There isn't thus a log of what people are looking at specifically,
> whether they're a Cosmolog junkie hitting refresh all day or someone 
> who
> drops back every now & then and reads all the entries on the page.
>
> As you say, there are monthly archives which people could request. But
> then your audience is people who would actually look at that which is
> probably not a sample of what's being read. And you've got to factor in
> search engines anyway.
>
> Here's one idea. MT has this idea of "Entry Body", "Extended Body", and
> "Excerpt". If you put text in the Extended Body you'll have a link
> "Continue reading [blog title]". (See June 06 entry in
> http://paulm.com/inchoate/ ) (You can use the Excerpt rather than
> relying on MT taking the first 40 or so words from the Entry Body. A
> teaser, in essence.)
>
> So by using the Extended Body you're in effect forcing the reader to
> perform a click, and thus a request, and thus a log, and thus a
> trackable behaviour.
>
> All sites have a /stats/ directory, btw, in case you didn't know. The
> most popular requests are the final report on that page.
>
> HTH,
> Paul
>
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