tech regarding links fom mn - can the poeple tell that their website is posted on mn

[Dogsby]

nad read the comments?

[iwouldgoouttonight]

Yes you can find which websites have linked to yours by typing 'link:' followed by your web address into Google. Eg, to see which sites link to MN you would type link:www.mumsnet.com

[Hathor]

How else do you think they attract advertisers.
Whole armies of people are employed in marketing to post on forums such as these and put up links extolling their products.

[Ladymuck]

So M&S should know by now that we think that they've made some mistakes this season then?

[ChippyMinton]

but they will also know that many of us rate their school uniforms

[Budababe]

And they don't care cos they've just announce huge profits!!!

[morningpaper]

Most sites will have Website statistics which will tell them where visitors came from (which page they were on first)

Advertisers adverts are all tracked

[Budababe]

"announceD" even!

[zippitippi]

I don't think the links in threads are tracked by google iwouldgoouttonight

and they don't count towards ranking by them

[iwouldgoouttonight]

Thanks - I didn't know that!

[Dogsby]

where do ours all come fom then?

so if you reccy to a product adn eveyone look they KNOW mners are afetr it?

[zippitippi]

people have their own trackers

[RubberDuck]

Yes, if it's a link and someone's clicked through via it you can see in your website statistics where they came from.

However, it's arguable whether a large company like M&S are likely to notice a small number of clickthroughs (sorting through the wheat from the chaff in website statistics can be a full time job when it's busy!).