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[request] List most popular outgoing links
I’ve managed to devise a list of most popular articles at my website. The problem is that they become a self-fulfilling prophecy, because they are based on visits to the article. If an article is on the most-popular list, people are more likely to visit it, and it stays popular.
A better way to measure popularity would be by looking at the actions taken by the users once they’ve read the article. In my case, the action would be to click on a Learn More link. This takes them to a website where they can download the item mentioned in the article.
I know that outgoing links are listed in my web analytics, so I’m wondering if there is a way a plug-in could take this info and list it as a series of links to the articles. I asked this question in the How Do I forum and got one answer:
“If you can convince your analytics script to store its information inside the txp db and you’re skilled enough to carve the right SQL query, then smd_query can help, I’m sure.”
Unfortunately, this is way beyond my ability.
Anyway, I’m hoping a plug-in author will find this proposal intriguing, because it does offer a more accurate view of popularity.
Mark
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