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Based on what I’ve seen from analytics, I suspect it’s not strictly only from the front page. I’ve gotten views from more specific pages, like tag searches, but possibly http://itch.io might be an umbrella url.

That's would be too bad. I used to get referral urls that had the search criteria embedded in them. It was nice to know.

Although this can take some time, I think it should be done within a week. Did you get some extra views this past week?

Yes, I've had a bump here and there, but I also had mine unlisted for a long time. Anyway, it can't be from "last 1/7 days" searches because it's just not there. If I add some search criteria it narrows it down to about 18 games (https://itch.io/games/free/input-x360/last-7-days/platform-windows), so I can see it's not there. I mostly just want to know if that's how it is supposed to work.

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Afloof.dev2 years ago

That’s would be too bad. I used to get referral urls that had the search criteria embedded in them. It was nice to know.

I might be mistaken then. I haven’t paid close attention to analytics, but I’m not aware of any changes.

Yes, I’ve had a bump here and there,

If you had a bump on the last week, compared to the past few weeks, then it means it works as intended. I’m not sure about all the lists where the game is bumped, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

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uncleAlias2 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks for trying to help me out with this, DD.

If you had a bump on the last week, compared to the past few weeks, then it means it works as intended. I’m not sure about all the lists where the game is bumped, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

Like I said, it was unlisted for months previous to that, so I have nothing to compare to.

And I mean, no, I'm going to worry about this. Like, if I can only get on the "Last X Days" on the first release, then I'll wait until a later stage of development to post my next game so I can take full advantage of that. I don't think that's "gaming the system", it's just trying to make a smart choice.

Idk, I feel like I'm asking reasonable, straightforward, yes/no questions that somebody should know the answer to. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the information I'm asking for can be used to game the system. So I feel kinda like this is less a matter of users gaming the system and more about the system gaming the users. Which is fine, I guess. It's their system.

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