Leprekon

Statcounter.com decided to rotate it's counter code so that every time you create a new counter it has different links to it's site:


Example 1:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript>
<div class="statcounter"><a title="wordpress hit counter" href="http://www.statcounter.com/wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c.statcounter.com/4373723/0/937d8619/1/" alt="wordpress hit counter" ></a></div></noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->

Example 2:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript>
<div class="statcounter"><a title="blogspot visitor" href="http://www.statcounter.com/blogger/" target="_blank"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c.statcounter.com/4373647/0/17a00151/1/" alt="blogspot visitor" ></a></div></noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->

You can see what they are trying to rank for by looking at the code and ahref links. Before the code only linked to the main page of statcounter, but since they pretty much dominate the SERPs for their main page I guess they decided to switch it up. Just hope Google doesn't catch this or they can get their valuable PR taken away.

I mean linking to the main page was okay I guess, but linking to their other pages if it isn't necessary to put that code in their counter code could get them in trouble from the almighty Google correct? You can see this part of the codes aren't necessary: <a title="blogspot visitor" href="http://www.statcounter.com/blogger/" target="_blank">

The part that rotates.

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Leprekon

Keep in mind this is for an invisible counter so the links are invisible.

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xentech

Meh who cares.

kblessinggr

Or perhaps everytime you generate the code, it simply creates a unique ID for that generation?

Still don't quite see what the big deal is...
The bolded is probably the new counter id, the front is probably your account ID. Perhaps as a way of tracking a specific counter, otherwise how would it know besides using the javascript method like google. Or trying to use the site's refferal (which isn't always accurate).

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nachoninja

they've been doing this for years

wgaf

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Leprekon

that's not the part of the code i'm talking about.

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Rasher

He's pointing out the alt text.

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kblessinggr

Oh that? LoL, well if they wana do that... Personally I modify that kind of code to whatever I want anyways. Since its editable and all.

If you wanted to, you could just simply put in the img and that's it and it'll still work

(besides by only doing it that way, statcounter can't get additional details about your visitors, unless you use em for that kind of info, otherwise I Just use google analytics, or my own built in counter/stats).

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productionhead

hehe and they're still on the bottom of page 2 for counter

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