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How to track files which appear in Google's search?

tom70s
Minted
Posted on Jan 21, '12 at 12:43 pm

How can i track downloaded files through a Google search? E.g. a pdf file appearing in a Google search and downloaded from there but not from a visit on the website itself, which then Mint would track this download.

Obviously mint can’t track these directly linked files, but is there a way with a redirect command in a htaccess file or so? My idea is that that

home.com/file.pdf (appearing in the Google search results)

redirects to

home.com/file.html

and then someone can download it manually or automatically but with tracking the numbers of downloads through mint. Is that possible or how would you do it?

Thanks

B.W.
Minted
Posted on Jan 24, '12 at 01:07 pm

This would work using “Method 3” as described on Till Kruess’ website: http://tillkruess.com/projects/pepper/d … umentation

I did a similar configuration using nginx (that doesn’t know about .htaccess, so its rewrite rules aren’t probably of much use), and it’s working fine.

tom70s
Minted
Posted on Jan 27, '12 at 11:56 pm

Unfortunately this doesn’t work, the error i get is described in this thread http://haveamint.com/forum/troubleshoot … er_by_till

B.W.
Minted
Posted on Jan 28, '12 at 07:48 am

Which is which of the two issues mentioned there?

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