I want to build a data base of the visitors coming on my website. i have a track of the number of hits but not their contact information. the purpose is to keep them informed of all new additions on the site.
Can any one guid me how to do that ?
Re: how to build a data base of the visitors on my website
How would you keep them inform? Email right? or RSS feed.
So have a feedback form setup on the website and ask your visitors to volunteerly leave their contact info for you. OR enable RSS feed on your site so visitors can subscribe to it, if they want. I think you can get help on that here or google it, there are tutorials available on RSS.
You can't log visitors' info automatically. If you do it means that you are leaving a cookie or spyware on client's to collect their info from their PCs. This is illegal. You will loose your visitors instead of increasing them.
Re: how to build a data base of the visitors on my website
Something like this
Re: how to build a data base of the visitors on my website
But it doesn't keep the email address or any other contact info. Capturing IP address, ISP name and geographical location doesn't really count as contact info. Am I missing a point here?
Re: how to build a data base of the visitors on my website
i only want to keep record of their names , email address and topics of interest if possible.
Re: how to build a data base of the visitors on my website
What platform is it on? They have all these guestbooks that you can just throw in and it starts working. I've used Viper Guestbook in the past as well as some very basic generic ones that puts the info in a little text file, which should suffice as to what you're trying to accomplish.
Re: how to build a data base of the visitors on my website
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