http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2007/01/analytics-by-log-files.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=analytics-by-log-files Entrepreneur Wed, 02 May 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2007/01/analytics-by-log-files.html/comment-page-1#comment-3282 benrobb » Blog Archive » Web Traffic Analysis Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:45:29 +0000 http://jimmyzimmerman.com/2007/01/analytics-by-log-files.html#comment-3282 [...] A post from Jimmy Zimmerman highlights one issue with log-file analysis.  Blogs and other types of web-sites that encourage user feedback have forms for posting comments, etc.  These comment forms are highly targeted by comment spammers that use this method of feedback for free advertising.  Since these spams consist of valid Request/Response pairs, they pollute your log files with false data.  If you use log-file analysis to track statistics on your site, be aware of this and take steps to cleanse your logs to produce accurate stats. [...] [...] A post from Jimmy Zimmerman highlights one issue with log-file analysis.  Blogs and other types of web-sites that encourage user feedback have forms for posting comments, etc.  These comment forms are highly targeted by comment spammers that use this method of feedback for free advertising.  Since these spams consist of valid Request/Response pairs, they pollute your log files with false data.  If you use log-file analysis to track statistics on your site, be aware of this and take steps to cleanse your logs to produce accurate stats. [...]

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