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Track and Monitor your Flash files

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Its really hard to keep track of the usage of swf files and in some cases they eat up too much of bandwidth. This is a very tricky problem especially for website/blog owners. Again there is a great way to solve this problem too. Mochibot is a free tracking, traffic monitoring and analytics service that will help you keep track of your flash (including SWF) files. Other than that mochibot says it can help you keep track of:

Viral Flash marketing campaign effectiveness
Flash video, podcast, or video blog reach
Flash application usage and distribution

So you can see for yourselves who is actually stealing the bandwidth without permission and ask them not to do that. One more usefulness of this tracking service is the power to monitor your ongoing marketing campaigns and to see the reach of your video blog, podcasts, etc.

How to use this tracking service?

The usage is pretty simple and is pretty similar to that of a visitor tracking service like google analytics, statcounter, etc. Mochibot provides you a few lines of actionscript which you need to insert into your original Flash file (FLA) before ultimately saving it in the SWF or other flash format. Once the animation/game/flash presentation file is used, it sends a signal to their server which gets registered for your later viewing. Its almost undetectable in nature and does not affect the performance of your original content says Mochibot. Mochibot also has a forum where you may ask for any help.