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

[Dogsby]

nad read the comments?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

"announceD" even!

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

and they don't count towards ranking by them

Thanks - I didn't know that!

where do ours all come fom then?

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

people have their own trackers

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!).