Joe Hayes {dot} Org

You know, for years (literally) I’ve always wanted to be able to exclude certain words when looking at things like “links from an external page” while using Awstats. This especially comes in handy when you have alot of subdomains, as those links are counted as “links” the same way (actually worse, or more often) than links from other (completely different) domains. In my case, I manage free forum and blog hosting services which offer free subdomains… so that’s literally thousands of listings cluttering up what I really want to see (websites passing the most traffic via incoming links) and often eliminated just one word isn’t enough.

I’ve tried everything I could… commas, colon, semicolon, plus signs etc… then tried searching Google, Yahoo, MSN… hell I even searched Ask.com to no avail. Well today I really needed to get this working, and eventually found a delimiter that worked - the “|” - which really doesn’t suprise me. I though I tried that before… maybe I had but used a space or something (you can’t).

So, at anyrate, maybe everybody knew but me… but in case you didn’t you can use multiple words for filtering Awstats results like this keyphrase1|keyphrase2