Computerized system and method for tracking the geographic relevance of website listings and providing graphics and data regarding the same

Abstract

The present invention generally relates to a computerized system and method for tracking and displaying data identifying the geographic relevance of website listings on Internet search engines, parked web pages, ISP redirect web pages, and other similar web listing services without requiring extra input from Internet users. Each time an Internet user clicks on a website link provided on one of these web services, the software of the present invention tracks that person's decision in selecting the link, along with his or her geographic location. The software automatically collects and stores this information in a database in a format that can be quickly accessed and used in the future when other Internet users perform the same keyword search or visit the parked/redirect page again. Based on this stored information, the software automatically sends signals to the Internet user's computer that causes his or her web browser to display data and graphics that indicate whether the websites listed on the web page has been frequently visited and found to be popular by other Internet users in various geographic areas. As a result, the software of the present invention enables search engines, parked/redirect web pages, and other similar web services to be automatically organized by popularity within a geographic region. Moreover, each time data is collected by this software (e.g., when a user selects a link), the search engine and parked page will grow naturally and intelligently, thereby becoming more and more useful to the Internet user.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method for generating information regarding the geographic relevance of one or more website hyperlinks to be provided on a website, comprising the steps of:
 (a) storing, on one or more computer readable media that operatively communicates with one or more processors, information in a database that relates to visits by a plurality of individuals to one or more websites;   (b) receiving, via the one or more processors, one or more signals that indicate a request from a remote user to display one or more website hyperlinks on a web page;   (c) retrieving, via the one or more processors, at least a subset of said information stored in the database, wherein
 said retrieved information pertains to the one or more website hyperlinks to be displayed in response to the request; 
   (d) determining from the retrieved information, via the one or more processors, geographic information pertaining to one or more of the plurality of individuals that have visited said requested website hyperlinks; and   (e) generating, via the one or more processors, one or more data sets based on said determined geographic information, wherein
 the one or more data sets comprises information that indicates the relevancy of the requested website hyperlinks to one or more geographic areas.