Depending on the URL added the limiter options can be the same and will work the same way.
If we add a basic domain such as http://JoeGeo.com then the limiter options will be
Full: JoeGeo.com
Path:
JoeGeo.com
Root: JoeGeo.com
In this case all three limiters will work exactly the same way.
If we then add the URL http://JoeGeo.com/index.php then the limiters will be set to the following
Full: JoeGeo.com/index.php
Path:
JoeGeo.com/index.php
Root: JoeGeo.com
In this case a visitor to either (Full or Path) will be treated as a one visitor and the same visitor to Root will be treated as another good visitor.
If we then add the URL http://JoeGeo.com/index.php?uid=joegeo then the limiters will be set to the following
Full: JoeGeo.com/index.php?uid=joegeo
Path:
JoeGeo.com/index.php
Root: JoeGeo.com
In this case visitors to each of these will be treated as 3 separate visitors.
Examples -- If we had a Priority rotator setup like below and I send the same person to my rotator 10 times the results will be as follows.
Example1
In this example the first hit go to :-
Hit 1 --
Goes to joegeo.com
Hit 2 -- Goes to joegeo.com/index.php, this is because we have limited the first URL to one visit per unique visitor.
Hit 3 -- Goes to our 3rd URL, again because we have limited the second URL to one visit per unique visitor.
Hit 4 -- Goes to our 3rd URL again.
Hit 5 -- Goes to Google skipping URL 4 altogether, this is because its already had its quota set by the limiter, (if we had set this limit to 3 instead of 2 then URL 4 would have received this hit)
All the rest of the hits go to google, all the other URL's have reached their limits and will not be shown to this visitor.
Example2
In this example the first hit go to :-
The hits go to joegeo.com/index.php?uid=joegeo until our limit is reached.
The next URL is set to "Path" so it doesn't get any hits because this visitor has already been to this path "joegeo.com/index.php" in hits 1 and 2.
The next URL is set to "Root" so it doesn't get any hits because this visitor has already been to this domain "joegeo.com" in hits 1 and 2.
The next URL is set to "Full" so it doesn't get any hits because this visitor has already seen this precise URL in hits 1 and 2.
The rest go to google because we have it set to allow 40 visits from this IP
I still don't get it??
If you
added joegeo.com/index.php?uid=joegeo then
Full -- Limits any hits to this precise URL, ie visits to someone else's referral URL would be treated as different.
Path -- Limits hits to the path, this means hits to joegeo.com/index.php (+anything) are all treated the same.
Root --
Limits visits to any page or URL within a site.
