Help and Documentation
How does this work?
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The system tracks each time the image button is displayed on your page,
then orders the list of sites based on the number of hits over the last seven days.
Each visit to each page displaying the button is recorded, so the more pages that the button
appears on, the more hits you will get.
However, if a visitor revisits the same page within an hour, this visit will not be counted.
In addition to this the number of times people have clicked on the button on your site is shown.
How do I add the button to my site?
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Once you have registered, you will be given a piece of HTML code to add to your site. Use whatever means you normally use to edit your site, and copy the code into place.
Is it really free?
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Yes, and it will stay free. This site is supported by advertising banners. You know what to do with those, don't you?
Because it's free, I make absolutely no guarentees of any kind about this.
Privacy Policy
- IP addresses are used to track hits.
- A cookie is used to keep track of your login status.
- Your email address is used to keep you informed of substatial changes to the system, and to help you recover your password if you forget it
Rules
- The UK Waterways Ranking Site is free to use, and supported by the advertisment banners which you see on the site.
- If you are not the owner or webmaster of the site you are trying to add, do not add it. You will be unable to add the required tracking image code to the site. It won't work.
- Only sites related to UK waterways are allowed. Canals, rivers, lakes, they all count.
- Any offensive sites will be removed immediately.
- Please place only one copy of the image code on each page. If you are using Blogger, Wordpress, or something of that ilk, place it on the page template.
- Artificially boosting your ranking by clicking like mad on your own site, or placing fifteen buttons on a page is considered caddish behavior and counts as misuse.
- Don't put the button on websites other than the one you registered. If you have two or more applicable site, register two or more accounts.
- Don't hide the button. I'll get mad.
- I reserves the right to modify these rules at any time without prior notice. Because I'm like that.
Misuse
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Misuse is defined as any of the following:
- Artificially inflating your hit count by having more that one button image per page.
- Repeatedly re-loading your own page or the button image.
- Your IP address being blocked from recording any future hits.
- Your hit count being reset to zero.
- Your account being deleted and blocked.
- Your IP address and website being permanently blocked from accessing this site. This is a last resort option.
Other Questions
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How come it doesn't tally with the other site?
Because that one American, and they do things differently. That site counts individual vistors to your site per day, so if a person looks at seven different pages on your site in the same day, they only get counted once.
Why isn't my ranking higher than NB Suchandsuch?
Maybe, and this is just a hunch... Their site is getting more visitors?
Why do my hits occassionally drop?
Most likely you'll see a drop in hits because you've looked at the page, for example, twice in ten minutes.
Maybe at first you had 966 hits, and now it says 955. You'll get results like that if, for example again, eleven more people looked at your site a week and ten minutes ago than in the last ten minutes. Everything older than seven days and one second is ancient history, and that means seven days and one second from now, not midnight.
Contact Email
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If you really need to email me about something, here is the address:
But be warned: I work strange hours, so an email sent at 3am is more likely to get a swift reply that one sent at 3pm.
