Dealers Help - Understanding Views Counter

Each ad will display a number of views in the dealers management console. Each time someone visits the page with that vehicle it will count that visit.

The counter is just a counter, it will not discriminate between one person looking at the page several times and another person that views it one time. Each page view is counted as 1.

The count will increase regardless of where the page is viewed or who is viewing it. Counts include all pages viewed via the syndicated web feeds and all AAN Network sites.

The counters do not count the cars when they are displayed in search results or on browse pages or featured thumbnails on other content pages. The count only represents the numbers generated by people actually viewing the full details page for that vehicle.

Dealers hosting websites with pagebuzz.com or websites using the perl API rather than the standard javascript web feed will not have pages viewed on their websites included in the count. This seperates network traffic counts from the dealers actual website counts.

Most websites have their own website stats and will show you more detailed information about the pages being viewed on your own website. Webmasters can parse the querry from the web feed pages and get detailed information about website visitors even though the web feed runs from one page.

Resetting the counter - Counters are reset when an ad is expired or moved to the sold section. No counts are maintained for the sold cars and can only be viewed by the dealers or from a dealers web feed. If the ad is reactivated or moved back to the cars for sale gallery, the counter will start back at 0.