Hi,

I have a question about tracking CPA offers. I am not sure if this belongs to here though.

I have a wordpress website where I have CPA offers from one network, Maxbounty. And I have some other websites that I am sending traffic to my main website. I know how to create sub id's so that I can track which link generates clicks and leads.

Now what I want to do is to track the traffic from each website. I mean, let say website A, website B and Website C are sending traffic to the main site. How can I track which website's traffic generate me clicks and leads?

I know it is a bit complicated but the ones who do this would understand I guess.

Thanks.

PHP: show referring URL


Grabs the referring URL - get the HTTP_REFERER and save it to a variable.


code snippet: <?php

$ref = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");
echo $ref;

?>


Just put this on your "main" site and $ref will then have the url of sitea b or c in it.



For example, this is what i have on my website:

PHP Code:

<?php

# Gets the reffering site , Inserts into the private database for later graphing and documatiation.

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; // Get the users IP ( so i can get their country code etc )
$refsite = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");  //( Get the referring URL )
if ($refsite == "") {
    $refsite = "Unknown / Direct Visit"; // If they visited directly
    }

  $con = mysql_connect("localhost","database","**************");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("database", $con);

$refsite = mysql_real_escape_string($refsite);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO table (ref, ipaddress)
VALUES ('$refsite', '$ipaddress')");

mysql_close($con);

?>

Thanks a lot. It is apparent that what you suggest will solve my issue. However, I am not much php savy, and don't know how to implement your code. Could you please lead me to a step by step source that I can follow, if there is any.

OK,
Create a mysql database and table like :

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `visits` (
`id` int(100) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`ref` varchar(1000) character set utf8 collate utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`time` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
`ipaddress` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '0.0.0.0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

Then use the code:

PHP Code:

 <?php

# Gets the reffering site , Inserts into the private database for later graphing and documatiation.

$ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; // Get the users IP ( so i can get their country code etc )
$refsite = getenv("HTTP_REFERER");  //( Get the referring URL )
if ($refsite == "") {
    $refsite = "Unknown / Direct Visit"; // If they visited directly
    }

  $con = mysql_connect("localhost","databasename","password"); // Maybe uname :root  password blank""
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("YOURDATABASENAME", $con);

$refsite = mysql_real_escape_string($refsite);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO visits (ref, ipaddress)
VALUES ('$refsite', '$ipaddress')");

mysql_close($con);

?>

This is pretty much all the info i can give you short of doing ti all myself..


good luck
-G

Well, thanks for trying to help me. I guess I will need to pay someone to do this for me, because it seems that I will not be able to do that.

statcounter.com is a free traffic counter.
Add it to your "main" page.
Then login to statcounter and you can see ( on the left ) your most recent came from .

This will show what page your traffic is coming from.

I think is better to use google analytics and setup goals, it would be much better and more accurate.