Tracker v2!
Ok I think most of the bugs have been ironed out for me to be comfortable enough to officially announce the new tracker. Thanks everyone for your patience and support! =)
CB was one of the first websites to provide a tracker - way back during our Xangans.com days - sometime during 2003. Now we undoubtedly have the most powerful tracker once again. Here are the features of the new tracker:
- New and improved http://createblog.com/tracker/index.php?id=18
- See where your visitors are http://createblog.com/tracker/map.php?id=18
- Unlimited daily and monthly http://createblog.com/tracker/summary.php?id=18
- 30 days of http://createblog.com/tracker/history.php?id=18 (individual hits)
- New measures to prevent hijacking
- In-depth IP information
- Supports all personal sites
- Tracks top visitors, destination and referer pages
If you find any bugs, please post in this topic. I shall get to them as soon as possible! =)
Frequently asked questions
I signed up for the tracker, why doesn't it work?
You need to make sure to place your tracker code on your page for tracker to begin tracking hits. IF you set your profile page to private, only users who are actually able to see your profile page will be tracked. In the future, I'll add support so that the tracker code will fit in Headlines (myspace) so that private pages will be tracked regardless.
I'm trying to sign up but it keeps on telling me that the site is already being tracked, why?
Most likely you signed up for your page using another createblog account. If you can't remember your original createblog account, pm me with the url you wish to track and I can reset this for you.
How do I hide the tracker button?
The tracker button is there to help promote our tracker. It's also there as a privacy precaution - we believe that if you choose to use a tracker, visitors have the right to know they are being tracked. In the future, I'm going to release code for official members to hide their button, so if you wish to take advantage of this feature, give back to the community and contribute!
My tracker stops tracking everyday after a while and restarts again the next day, why?
For regular members, the tracker will track only the first 500 hits to your page. After this limit is reached, all other hits are ignored for the day. For official members, this limit is 10x the amount and set at 5000 hits. If you're a regular member, contribute to our community so that you'll be eligible to become an official member. Once you are promoted, PM me and I can increase your daily alloted limit.
My tracker works but the time is all incorrect, why?
Make sure your timezone is correct. Click on 'edit settings' (found on the red panel underneath the daily bar graph) and select the correct timezone. Also make sure your profile page's timezone is also correct.
What is the prevent hi-jacking option?
Enabling this option will make sure that all your hits are coming from your profile page. In another words, even if someone else "steals" your tracker code and inserts it into their page, all their hits will be ignored by your tracker.
Why does everyone come up as "Anonymous"
The tracker only logs the IPs of your visitors. It's your responsibility to "label" these IPs to profiles. A little detective work usually does the trick. For example, if you have a hit at 12:01am and someone leaves you a comment at 12:02am, then most likely the commenter is the visitor. To label IPs, click on the IP (anonymous) and then "identify IP".
I didn't know where to post, so if I'm posting in the wrong forums, please let me know...
I have the CreateBlog's Myspace profile tracker, and I have a question about it. When you click to view who has been to your site, it gives a list of people. Then when you Click on one of the names, it shows another list of people. Is that a list of people the person has been to aswell, or just people in their friends that viewed my profile?
I'm hoping this question makes sense, I don't really know another way to explain it?
--Topic merged with Tracker v2 Announcement.
I think it's just people that have visited your site too.
I have a quick question. I put the tracker code on my page and went to it a couple of times to make sure it's working. It's logging me as living in Florida. I don't live in Flordia. Did I do something wrong when signing up for it or is it just a bug that will work itself out?
Sorry. Posted in the wrong forum.
Thanks! I always get confused about what should go where. lol. I'll eventually get the hang of it.
aww man :( I gotta have like 1000+ posts just to use tracker v2 :(
i still don't support the identifying IPs option. it's basically a clever way around the TOS. and i don't appreciate being 'identified' either.
Haha, hey Ju Sun. Is this what you and Christian were umm.. discussing? Esp. that last post there huh.. Hope you're well, maybe I can visit Christian soon and play Mafia or something. Sorry for the personal post.
Awesome tracker. Works great. (=
I'm not sure if I am doing this right.. So I'm sorry if not. I have a few questions about the tracker. What are the unique visitors? Why do they all say anonymous? I know we have the option to try to identify the IP address but how do we do that? They all say they are from some other state or some other town. Any advice or help that anyone can give me would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
ok i dont this thing. all it shows is the ip adress and the only link it gives is a link to my myspace. im working on a mac. i want to actually go to the persons site who viewed my profile. is this tracker supposed to do that?
hey i was just wondering, i accidentally identified an Ip incorrectly and was wondering hw i get it back to anonymous because i dont know whose Ip it belongs to so ye just wondering if u can cancel the ID on a n IP if its incorrect. also i was wondering if u fix the issue wer u can track ppl who reply to ur comments thru the comment back link instead of actually visiting ur profile to reply. and also another fix if u could make it sothe tracker ignores you visiting ur own profile cause its easier to view ur log without urself viewing ur own profile a million times :P.
My tracker keeps saying that I'm from Florida, but I'm nowhere near Florida. Why is this?
Any idea how to tell the difference between who's read my blog and who's visited my profile? I'm on MySpace...
hey thomasc thanks for reply. i fixed the tracker settings so it wont track my own ip. but with regards to undoing an id on an ip, i hv no idea whose ip it is cause he/she never comments me. but ther must be a way to undo an id because its such a basic command. does anyone else know???????i hope the tracker master releases patches for this software cause it is easily the best tracker out ther. also could you please make it so the ttracker button is hidden on my profile. i dont want ppl seeing i track them, theyll think im a low-life weirdo lol. its a tracker not a profile layout generator, this is sneaky stuff and shudnt be advertised. i think its better if less ppl know about this tracker. after all its a non-profit service.
ne1?
Not sure if we're still supposed to click the link in red -- it's there, so I assumed so -- but I've clicked it every now and then the past couple days and I've always gotten the same response.
I am having problems with my Blogger tracker. It's not tracking. I put it in, and nothing shows up for visitors. Anyone give me an idea? I didn't have a problem before the upgrade.
Well I just redid the code, and it is still not tracking.
Do you now of a better place in the forum to get some help? Is anyone else having problems with this?
I am going a little bonkers here.
nothing showed up
did it both ways and nothing still showed up. I also tried the different options of making it public and private. And still no change.
I have tried a different tracker since this one was offline for so long. Came back and saw that is was up and running again. So decided to put them back in. I do not have the other tracker on there, so it can't be that.
Thank you for brainstorming with me!!! I hope he see this !
Thanks again!!!
hey just wondering if thers any way i can visit someones myspace and find out wat ther IP is??? wb
i rekon u shud change the tracker button that we put in our profiles. instead of saying cb tracker, just say cb. either way u gain publicity and at the same time it doesnt reveal that we are tracking the visitor. fair call???
I have my tracker set to "private" so people can't see it on my profile. And it still shows!! Is anyone having the same problem. And YES, I have already saved it as PRIVATE. This was never a problem. until CB was updated is when i began having these issues.
Could you give me a link to your tracker please.
OK... if u look at the actual 1st page of the tracker & compare it to a comment/msg made to my page its the same time.. but when i click into the link, to get the recent visits or to identify them, the time on the recent visit is about 4hrs ahead or behind. Anyone know whats up?? is this a bug!? Anyone at CB aware of it? Well thought Id let you guys know. As for now.. im trusting the time on the actual tracker, not the recent visit, after u click the link! :)
Hey Thomas, thanks for the feedback. I went & checked everything out & yeah im on the right time zone & everything. The regular tracker has the correct time, its just when i click on an anonymous/someones IP link, & when i see their recent visits.. the recent visit says same day/minute but different hour! Weird...
ok.. can someone point me in the right direction? where can i find how to create a new tracker for my myspace page?
hey i just realised a problem
my myspace layout i put, is interfering with the tracking performance. so if i hv a layout the tracker wont work, but once i get rid of the layout and just hv the default myspace skin my tracker works...can ne1 help?
here ill copy n pate the layout code and no its not from cb. cb have kool layouts which make sure myspace look differntly formatted but ther tricky to edit no offence...nways heres the code for my layout -
<style type="text/css">
form>img#googleTLogo
{
background-image:url(http://x.myspace.com/images/powered_by_google_white.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
#googleTLogo
{
vertical-align:bottom;
width:120px;
height:30px;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='http://x.myspace.com/images/powered_by_google_white.png', sizingMethod='image');
}
</style><style type="text/css">
table tbody td table tbody tr td.text table {visibility:hidden;}
table tbody td table tbody tr td.text table table, table tbody td table tbody tr td.text table table tbody td.text {visibility:visible;}
</style><style type=text/css> body, font, div, p {FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: ..ff9000; FONT-FAMILY: arial; text-decoration:none;} td {FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: ..ff9000; FONT-FAMILY: arial; text-decoration:none;} body{background-image:url("http://www.xoospace.com/myspace/backgrounds/12314.gif"); background-attachment:fixed;; background-repeat: repeat;; background-position:center;; background-color:ffffff;} table, tr, td{background-color:transparent;; border:0px;; padding:2;} table table{border:0px;} table table table {border:5px solid;; border-color: 000000;; padding:2;; background-color:5e4833;} table table table table{border:0px;} font, td, a, body, input, textarea, table{color:ff9000;} .blacktext10{color:ff9000;} .blacktext12{color:ff9000;} .btext{color:..ff9000;} .lightbluetext8{color:..ff9000;} .nametext{color:..ff9000;} .orangetext15{color:ff9000;} .redbtext{color:ff9000;} .redbtext12{color:ff9000;} .redtext{color:ff9000;} .redtext8{color:ff9000;} .text{color:ff9000;} .whitetext12{color:ff9000;} a:link{color:ff9000;} a:visited{color:ff9000;} a:active{color:ff9000;} a:hover{text-decoration: underline overline; color:..ff9000; FONT-FAMILY: arial; font-weight:bold; background: ..ff9000; color: ..ff9000;} a.navbar{color:ff9000;} a.navbar:link{color:ff9000;} a.navbar:active{color:ff9000;} a.navbar:visited{color:ff9000;} a.navbar:hover{color:ff9000;} a.redlink:link{color:ff9000;} a.redlink:active{color:ff9000;} a.redlink:visited{color:ff9000;} a.redlink:hover{color:ff9000;} a.searchlinksmall{color:ff9000;} a.searchlinksmall:link{color:ff9000;} a.searchlinksmall:active{color:ff9000;} a.searchlinksmall:visited{color:ff9000;} <style type="text/css">table table table td { !important;} span.blacktext12 {color:transparent;visibility:visible !important;background-color:transparent;background-image:url("http://www.xoospace.com/myspace/backgrounds/12314.gif");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:center center;font-size:0px; letter-spacing:-0.5px;width:435px; height:75px; display:block !important; } span.blacktext12 img {display:none; } </style><style type="text/css">
.contactTable {width:300px!important; height:150px!important; padding:0px!important; background-image:url("http://resources.mygen.co.uk/contacttables/music.png"); background-attachment:scroll; background-position:center center; background-repeat:no-repeat; background-color:transparent;}
.contactTable table, table.contactTable td {padding:0px !important; border:0px; background-color:transparent; background-image:none;}
.contactTable a img {visibility:hidden; border:0px!important;}
.contactTable a {display:block; height:28px; width:115px;}
.contactTable .text {font-size:1px!important;}
.contactTable .text, .contactTable a, .contactTable img {filter:none!important;}
i dont understand the point of the world map, it doesnt show all your visitors on ther and even wen u ID ur visitors, ther ID isnt available on the map, all my visitors are australian yet i have about 5 points on the map in australia instead of 100s. can anyone help? secondly, since iv only joined in july, im yet to experience a monthly turnaround, so im asking, does all ur stats from last month reset and start from zero, or do they continoue from last month, or do they start again from zero however u can still view logs from previous months?? and also has anyone managed to fix my previous problem with the tracker not working wen i hv my layout applied??? and lastly iv posted a few unanswered inquires from a few days ago so can someone answer them lol. thanks.
how do you change what the tracker button says?
I set up the Tracker yesterday and it seemed to be working fine. Today it seems to not be tracking any visits to my myspace page. I went and changed the settings to track my ip address and i showed up as a visitor but there was a delay of about 40 minutes from when i went to my myspace and to when it showed up on my stats page. The times that i visited were correct. I asked a friend to go to my myspace and he didnt show up on my stats page on CB at all and its been an hour and a half. Is there a delay between when the tracker lists the visits and is this a set amount of time? I thought it tracked in real time. Would other codes interfere with the tracker like hiding last login?
Thanks
hey my tracker has seemed to stop working all of a sudden??? iv got exactly 250 profile visits this month, is that some sort of a limit or sumthing?? wats going on?
So for some reason my myspace tracker hasn't been working in like a week. The last time it tracked anyone was the 23 and I know people have viewed my page since then. Is there any way i can fix this?
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how come certain peoples Ips change. for example iv ID'd certain ppl, and yet wen they view my profile a week later ther IP has changed. it defys the whole purpose of tracking if peoples Ips change.
I kind of feel like my privacy is gone now that any time i visit someones page they can see where i live, my IP address, and "with a little detective work" can get my Myspace.
however, I know the internet isn't a private place to begin with..
so i'll just say..nice job
I hate how you don't know who exactly viewed your site, or maybe you can but I just don't know how .
thomasc can you just elaborate in more detail what you mean im not quite following...
can u also tell me the point of the world visitor map, it has random markers which dont show anything
why did the tracker not track any views for a couple days?
I came back today and it said I had no views for august although my chart thing says I do...it's working now though, I was just wondering what happened and if I can see my old views.
^same thing happened to me. they all erased somehow.
ye all my old view n stuff got erased, i thought it was cause i accidentally deleted my tracker code, but other ppl are complaining so smthing is up. its working now thou but thers things wrong with it, today being the fifth, the chart bar for the 4th was increasing, then later that nite on the 5th, it then started charting a bar on the 5th...wtf. and also its not tracking every single visit i just got a visit then, and it hasnt reported it. and its not that 500 visit rule, sif id get that many hits each day. so ye sort this problem out asap. and iv just realised that most ppl have dynamic ips which means ther ip changes once a week, hence tracking them is a nightmare...
nope most ppl use bigpond telstra down here in australia and everyones ip changes, hence tracking them is pointless. this tracker needs some tweaks...
i kno u said that ur gonna put the code to hide the traker link... but when would that be?
is their anyway of knowing when ur gonna add that?
is there anyway to have a hidden tracker? whats the point of tracking someone when they see an icon on your page saying they have a tracker. they wont spy on u as much as they want to haha. ;P
alright, I'm confused. I've been using createblog for... oh I don't know. over a year? I'm not sure.
Anyway, up until last night I have had not problems with my tracker being invisible. I've changed my background and used all kinds of code on my page for years now, and I've never once had a problem with the tracker not working.
Last night I was redoing my profile and I accidentally erased my tracker code. So, I went to regrab the code, and realized it wasn't invisible anymore. I deleted the first half that has the pictures. And of course, now my tracker doesn't work.
Is there any way to fix this? Anyone have an old code I can use so I can just switch out my userid?
Do not remove any of the coding for the tracker.
Look at the coding and you will see two areas with width and height sizes make those 0 and it should hide the tracker.
Is there any way to use the tracker with the Xanga Theme editor, because my tracker was working perfectly with my Xanga site until I switched to the Themes editor and now it doesn't track anything.
Okay so I've been using the tracker to use on my myspace account for a long time. When the v2 came out, I switched and it worked like a charm until I accidentally deleted the code and had to put it back on my profile...now it's saying that I am only getting like 1 or 2 hits a day, and even some days 0. I know this is inaccurate, and I've tried to reinstall it, but nothing has changed. I know that I am seriously HTML and all things computer challenged, so forgive me... but can someone help me figure out what has happened or what I am doing wrong??
Is anybody else having a problem creating a tracker for their LiveJournal. Every time I try to create a tracker for my journal it says the site does not exist ...
^Keep in the mind that with the livejournal tracker it only seems to recognize Livejournal accounts using the S1 style system.
I pasted the code onto my myspace a couple days ago and i'm pretty sure i did everything right. I've gotten a lot of page views since but the tracker isn't tracking anything. I got the tracker buttons on my page and signed up correctly yet it's not working. i already tried to re-paste the code but it still don't work. can someone help me out here?
another thing how come this site still has their tracker unbanned from myspace but like other sites like spyspace gets frequently banned and they are more low key?
^ Because those sites show WHO visited. CB's tracker only shows the IPs that were visited.
^ i see. well any advice on getting the code to work? like the registration part i got down like it says "this code will only work for..." and the copy and paste the code directly to my "About Me" and "Blog" sections of my page and a little "CB Tracker" button/image appears in the 2 sections but it's not tracking anything. if anyone is willing to help but just don't wanna post a reply just message me i guess and i can send you link to my page and you can "view source" my code and figure it out if you want.
Yeah, well, is there anyone that knows how to get the tracker to work on Xanga, if you're using the themes? Because it would be really great if someone could give me a solution.
How do you track myspace blog now?
Hi! Can someone help me setup the tracker for friendster? When it asked for the username, what do I put? I tried putting the name that comes w/ the url, you know when you personalize it, but it keeps saying it doesn't exist. If i put the number that comes w/ the url when somebody else look at my profile, it would say "use username not userid". So what exactly do i put? If i put the first name i used in friendster it would give me somebody else's profile.
I wish it would tell you who the person is, instead of you having to lable them.
But I am glad that it is fixed.
Well, I tried to be optimistic about the second version of this tracker, but I haven't checked it in MONTHS. Even today when I thought I'd take a look at it seeing as it's been awhile, there was nothing there and nothing has been tracked and that's just for myspace. I still haven't gotten a satisfactory answer to the whole xanga problem, but apparently it doesn't work with the themes editor so it can't track anything anyway.
I really don't want to say it, but I think I liked the first version of this tracker a lot more because this one has only given me problems. I hope they can be fixed in future versions, if there even are any future versions in the works.
Why is it that evertime I try to track my CB, it says "Site does not exist"?
did you either take out the extra http://www.
or was it that you need to add it? I forget :]
Yeah, I've been removing it.
GRRR
Does the blogger work for the classic style only?
Mhm. I've tried not removing it as well.
I copy and pasted my url so as not to make any mistakes.
...you've gotta be kidding me. It worked.
^Thank You.
Hello everybody! just one question... Does the tracker track people who are not my friends too? or does it track only my friends? Thanks!
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post...but please...
I've added the CB tracker a week ago, and it doesn't seem to check visitors except for myself. I know i installed it correctly (the Website Stats in Xanga?), but it doesn't seem to work
good luck getting help on it