Trade Expert Support Forum

Hey
I have brought this up a couple times in the past but wanted to make a thread because I'm not sure if this was ever resolved. Basically, I have TE on some smaller sites which receive relatively speaking a large amount of search engine traffic. So the bookmarkers slot for traffic will have huge numbers sometimes, but when I look at the ips they will be listed as Google or other spiders usually. So sometimes I'll have anywhere between 20-50% bookmarker traffic which will generate clicks, go to trades, but is not actual real surfers. So all my traffic stats get terribly distorted and nothing is even remotely correct, this I have confirmed with by simply trading with my own sites and seeing the Out hits aren't anywhere close to the in hits on the 2nd site.

Any idea what I can do to fix this? I wouldn't want to block the spiders as I would worry about my SE traffic, but I don't want trade expert tracking them either.

Also to toss out an example, I just stuck TE on a site with ~500 traffic a day, mostly search engine traffic. I plan on growing it up some, but also like just having more stats that TE offers. Right now I am getting ~280 bookmarker hits an hour, which will be roughly 6k in bookmarker/spider traffic a day. So for every 10 hits I send to trades, 9 won't actually be surfers, making this pretty useless.

Hmm, well i can see what your problem is. We will try to simplify this whole thing in the future releases. In the mean there is quite a simple solution (or workaround depends how u look at it). You said you are willing to block these IPs. You can do that, but make sure you select "Send blocked traffic to galleries only" in the "Tools / Blocking config". By default system trade "Blocked" (overview menu) is excluded from the total summary, which is what you would probably need. I hope it helps.

Ok so if I block them it wont actually block them from my site, it'll just block them from being traded?

Yes, make sure you have "Send blocked traffic to galleries only" in the "Tools / Blocking config" selected. And blocked traffic will be sent to galleries only.