how do I find out who has been looking at my website and can i contact them?

Answer 1

Short answer: You can't.

Long answer:
3 ways to do it:
1)
If you look at your webserver's logs (/var/log/httpd/access_log is a common place for apache on linux/unix), it should list the IP address of everybody that visited your site.

Once you have that, you can use various internet tools (like dig, host, nslookup) to find out who controls that IP address (probably an ISP or large corporation). Then you just need to contact that network's administrator and ask them who was using the IP at the time they accessed your site.

If the admin is clueless, a disgruntled employee, or you pass yourself off successfully as some law enforcement agent, they will tell you who it was. You can then use a phonebook to look up the person's phone number / address.

2) Require all users to create an account and login. You can require any information you like, including contact information.

3) Use some nasty XSS attacks to attempt to steal their cookies to sites like paypal or amazon. Once you're logged in as them, you can view their personal information and use it to contact them.

Note that only #2 is completely legal. #1 could be legal, but 99.999% of companies will not tell you anything about who was using their network.

Answer 2

Use a regiteration form and collect data like contact info. Thats the only way you can actually "contact" a person. Other way to do it is by using scripts like in ASP track users using cookies/session's object. Add a chat script to it, then you will be able to talk to the person while he is on your site. The easiest way is to use a free or paid site statistics software to gather user information but that way you wouldnt be able to contact the particular user.

Answer 3

Get Google Analytics.I don't think that you will be able to contact who has been looking but you can find out.Google analytics is a neat service.

Answer 4

yes you can track them, but they shud be registered to your network,,
else, u can findout the IP address by contacting you internet host.