Title: [Plugin: WP125] Statistics
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP125] Statistics

 *  [robblatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robblatt/)
 * (@robblatt)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/)
 * Curious about the click through stats. We are seeing 1/5 of the pageviews as 
   clicks to the ads. I’m thinking that the plug in is tracking when Google and 
   other search engines are crawling the site. Could that be the case?

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 *  [redwallhp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redwallhp/)
 * (@redwallhp)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/#post-1055873)
 * It’s very likely the case, but the question is: how can it be stopped? Google
   generally doesn’t pay attention to any attempts to not follow a link.
 * Perhaps I could implement some logic to detect Googlebot and not increment the
   counter if it follows an ad link? I might be able to do that sometime in a future
   release.
 *  Thread Starter [robblatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robblatt/)
 * (@robblatt)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/#post-1056138)
 * Would adding a “nofollow” or “noindex” to the link prevent this? I mean, to some
   degree I think the plugin should do that anyway because these are advertisements,
   not part of editorial. Would that prevent this from happening?
 *  [redwallhp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redwallhp/)
 * (@redwallhp)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/#post-1056189)
 * The links are already tagged with rel=”nofollow”. Google does not pay attention
   to this directive any further than stopping PageRank from being passed. The robot
   still “clicks” through the link anyway, following it’s relentless quest to catalog
   every page on the internet.
 * However, Google’s and Yahoo’s spiders identify themselves as “GoogleBot” and “
   Slurp,” respectively. It probably would be possible to implement a user-agent
   check that would disable the hit counter when Google or Yahoo visit.
 *  [ashes77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashes77/)
 * (@ashes77)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/#post-1056278)
 * I don’t think this issue is well-addressed.
 * The inflated numbers don’t give me any indication at all of the number of actual
   clicks. And are probly higher than the total number of all the spiders hitting
   my site.
 * Is there any other way of getting an actual reading?
 *  [danatstadiumvolleyball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danatstadiumvolleyball/)
 * (@danatstadiumvolleyball)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/#post-1056319)
 * any further progress on this?
 *  [goldtop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goldtop/)
 * (@goldtop)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/#post-1056356)
 * Another nudge to get this resolved…
 * Otherwise, a super useful plug-in; particularly *because* of the click tracking…
   although not if it’s inaccurate!
 * If nothing else these potential inconsistencies need to be flagged up in the 
   documentation of the plugin so people can make an informed choice.
 * Thanks

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp125-statistics/#post-1056356)
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