On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:44:58 +0100, David Stanton <davi...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> This hardly seems something a ethical web designer would do without at > the very least explaining it to and discussing it with their clients (my > friends), who not being IT aware, wouldn't look at the source code and > know anything unexpected was there. I find it understandable that the web designer would want to track the site as it allows them to prove the work they are doing is beneficial etc. However there are much better ways of running analytics. I would also expect your friends to have access to the analytics information at any time. It is also possible your friend has been told but never realised what this meant. > The "Maverick Monkey" sequence of websites lead me to a site which > referred to something called "Adsense". I gather this is an extension of > the Google Adwords(?) (the pay per click advertising system which brings > up a link to a website when a "keyword" is searched for). As I > understood it "Adsense" is a system which lets a third party (as some > sort of sponsor) cream off a commission. Something weird is definitely going on here. My advice would be for your friend to get the source code for the whole of the site, though being 'non IT aware' they might not know what everything is. It might even be worth getting someone 'web-aware' too look over the whole thing for them, though knowing who to trust may be difficult. Rob -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-04-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
