Mint Forum

Hello!

I’ve just recently minted my site and I must say that Mint did for my stats what iPod did for my music :) Impressed and loving it!

Now a few things.

I’ve installed Mint to http://latforums.lv, forum that uses vBulletin 3.6.4 system (Aria skin) and everything is working together perfectly.

System recognizes Cyrillic (Russian) and special Latvian chars like “ā”,”ž”,”ķ”,”ī”,”ē”, etc. This was a concern for me before the purchase (I think I’ve even contacted someone about this) but it appears that there are no problems here. BTW, this might be something that should be mentioned in FAQ (just in case).

There are few things I’d like to be helped with.

First of all, it seems like Mint doesn’t recognize our local (Latvian and Russian) “search engines” as search engines. It’s not a biggie, but bugs me a bit, since I can’t get a full perspective on my searches (keywords). If you view my referrers ( http://latforums.lv/mint ) sorted by domains, you’ll notice “blogs.yandex.ru” and “smart.delfi.lv” on top. Both these referrers are search engines. Is it possible to set Mint to recognize these and other small local search engines as search engines and track their searches (keywords)?

And the follow-up: is there a pepper that tracks number of visitors coming from each search engine? For example: 20% Yahoo, 50% Google and 30% Others.

I guess this is it for now :)

Thank you for a great product! Looking forward to try different peppers. Hoping for a localization (BTW, I can help with translation into Russian or Latvian if needed). Lots of luck! :)

Andrejs.

Thank you! =^_^=

Hmm, the last four additions are missing the http:// from their 'url'.

To be clear, this addition isn’t retroactive. It will only affect referrers recorded since the addition of these custom search engines. Could that be it?

Also remember that if you have the “Ignore my visits” cookie set, you won’t be able to test whether it’s working or not. You’ll need to uncheck that Preference first.

In order to get that formatting (no worries) all I had to do was indent each line with a tab (something easily done all at once in a text editor before copy/pasting into the browser textarea).

Are Google search referrers still showing up after modifying engines.php?

as far as I can see, visits from any other source (other than rambler.ru) are tracked as usual and changes to enigines.php haven’t made any changes.

Is it possible that the results for the latter to point to pages that don’t have the Mint JavaScript include attached?

Ah, the problem was in my example. You need to leave the TLD off the domain in the engines array. Sorry, I should have seen that earlier.

eg.

'domain'        => 'blogs.yandex',

not:

'domain'        => 'blogs.yandex.ru',

I’ve correct the example above and included it again here for clarity (using the search result page http://blogs.yandex.ru/search.xml?text=mint as an example):

$SI_SearchEngines[] = array
(
    'name'          => 'blogs.yandex.ru',
    'url'           => 'http://blogs.yandex.ru/search.xml',
    'domain'        => 'blogs.yandex',
    'query'         => 'text'
);