Because Visitor Stats 2 tracks such interested data for each visitor, there are literally dozens of ways to make use of this on your website to give visitors a more dynamic, focused experience.
By using the number of visits a person has had, or where they came from (Google, Direct Request), you can customise your website to suit their needs. Some examples are:
Linking a visitor profile in Visitor Stats 2 with their sales or mailing list profile
Showing visitors your website in their language (multi lingual sites)
Offering specials to visitors on their 2nd, 3rd or more visits
Re-directing visitors to the right page based on where they came from
EXAMPLE 1 - Viewing a visitor profile when someone contacts me
Whenever someone fills out my online form, I have a hidden field that adds their Visitor Stats ID to the email, so I can see where this inquiry came from.
E.g. This form below:
Has a hidden field:
So when I get the email, it has a field which links me directly to the visitors profile:
EXAMPLE 2 - Cloaking your website from certain visitors
How to cloak, or hide, re-direct visitors from your website to another, or a different page.
My website www.phoenixdigital.com.au gets about 15 visitors a day looking for "phoenix digital". Now, I don't know which Phoenix Digital they are looking for, but its not me!
How do I know this? Well, take a look at the interest from these visitors, they all leave on their first visit, first page (see below).
This isn't just an isolated occurrence, this happens every single day!
So, these visitors aren't interested in my website... but seeing as I am getting the traffic, maybe I show them something more interesting? Using the '$my_se_keywords' variable, I put an automatic re-direct on any visitors who find my website under "phoenix digital"...
There I am, now, when someone click on this link, they don't see my www.phoenixdigital.com.au website, but www.visitor-stats.com instead.
The code (after visitor stats include, but before<html>):