Tynt Tracer
Tynt Tracer is a free service that provides web hosts insight into what users are copying and pasting from your website. When people highlight and copy your website image or text, their pasted result will provide a link back to your site with the copied results higlighted. Whether your users are copying text or images, Tynt Tracer shows you total page views, words and images copied, top pages viewed, and so much more. Here is how it works.
Pasted content into an Gmail message
You sign up for a free account, validate your email, and you are off and going. Then, copy the one line script before the bottom of the body tag on your web template or other, and content that users copy and paste will have a link back to your site. As an example, I copied the above highlighted text and pasted it into an email message. Take a look at the link-back below.
A user's copied text
It is so simple, that I feel stupid writing this post! What an excellent idea. Providing a link-back on copied content will drive traffic back to your site and provide you with a direction of what content your users are viewing and sharing with others. Take a look at the Tynt Tracer dashboard for my site below.
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May 11th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Thanks for the great review – we are pleased to hear you like Tracer! If you want to see who else is using Tracer, you can go to Tynt.com and see what is being copied from our client sites, right now!
May 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Awesome post, thanks for the info – I dont really ever post on these thingy’s but enjoyed the info. Keep up the good work, I bookmarked your site!
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
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