I'm trying to track if visitors to a website are new or repeat by having
a cookie set on their PC and then checking to see if its there.

I'm not sure how to do this, I don't need to record their name, etc,
just if they've visited.

Can someone suggest a way to do this? The IIS logfile analysis tool I
use, WebTrends, can use the info from that cookie, but I just need to
tell it the name, etc, then it will tell me if someone is a repeat
visitor or a brand new one.

Thanks a bunch! :-)

Steve

Typically, you would add the following ASP statement to
each page you care about.

<%
Response.Cookies("beenhere") = "donethis"
Response.Cookies("beenhere").Expires = "July 31, 2004"
%>

Then, to check for a return visitor, you would code
something like:

<%
If "" & Request.Cookies("beeenhere") = "" Then
Response.Write "Hello new visitor!"
Else
Response.Write "Welcome back!"
End If
%>

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
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>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to track if visitors to a website are new or
repeat by having
>a cookie set on their PC and then checking to see if its
there.
>
>I'm not sure how to do this, I don't need to record
their name, etc,
>just if they've visited.
>
>Can someone suggest a way to do this? The IIS logfile
analysis tool I
>use, WebTrends, can use the info from that cookie, but I
just need to
>tell it the name, etc, then it will tell me if someone
is a repeat
>visitor or a brand new one.
>
>Thanks a bunch! :-)
>
>Steve
>.
>

When my host used WebTrends, it automatically created it's own cookie that indentified if a user was
a return visitor based on IP address, with the exception of AOL users, which basically all have the
same IP address.

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"Steve Grosz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to track if visitors to a website are new or repeat by having
> a cookie set on their PC and then checking to see if its there.
>
> I'm not sure how to do this, I don't need to record their name, etc,
> just if they've visited.
>
> Can someone suggest a way to do this? The IIS logfile analysis tool I
> use, WebTrends, can use the info from that cookie, but I just need to
> tell it the name, etc, then it will tell me if someone is a repeat
> visitor or a brand new one.
>
> Thanks a bunch! :-)
>
> Steve