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Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
Old 01-11-2009, 11:04 PM Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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I have been slowly growing my website and basically just focusing on content (I find SEO boring and don't have money to spend on advertising :-) ). I have had some Adsense on there for some time without a lot of return. I am looking at entering a first advertising deal in which the client will have either a text link or a banner on a sidebar that appears on a number of pages. I am wondering how to track the number of clicks this link gets, since it will be on so many pages. Also, any advice on a first advertising deal? Thanks!
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Old 01-11-2009, 11:35 PM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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I use "RedirectMagic" google it up it will keep track of the clicks. It's a simple script and easy to install and free.
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Old 01-12-2009, 12:00 AM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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Hmm... it seems to much like tricking the user.... Any way to do this transparently? Thanks!
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Old 01-12-2009, 04:12 AM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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Either use a "jump" script http://www.candsdesign.co.uk/article...filiate-links/ or you can use javascript (AJAX) to call a server side script.
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Old 01-12-2009, 11:02 AM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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Hmm... it seems to much like tricking the user.... Any way to do this transparently? Thanks!
Tricking ???

Click this link http://freebiesrus.co.cc/fs/test "Don't worry it does not go to any of my sites"

The difference is it will have your domain name and instead of test it will say whatever you choose every time it's clicked it will be recorded in a data base.

Plus it gives you daily, weekly, or monthly stats " If you goto phpMyAdmin you can even see what page it was clicked on and the ip address of who ever clicked it." You can then set up different links for different advertising campaigns and you will know which ones are working. By having the ip address you can even figure out what part of the country or world is interested in your ads.

There is no trick it's just good business
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Old 01-24-2009, 09:37 PM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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Here's another idea. What I do is use a perl script to send them to the outbound advertiser link and it looks like this:

http://www.wotsit.com/cgi-bin/goto.p...boojimminy.com

that way it's not deceptive, you can see where you're going
plus a few javascript calls can make it show on the bottom bar as whatever you like, so you can put the url on its own there, and it's not really deceptive, really.

inside the perl script... easy peasy, like cheesy peas.

#!/usr/bin/perl
&ReadParse
print "Location:$in{url}\n";
### and then inside this bit you can get the script to write the user's details into your own log - that way you have the IP, date, and everything else you want, any of the user's details, all stored with the url they went to.
exit;


and that's the whole thing (okay you need a read parse routine, but if you want one, ask, i'll give you one).
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:18 AM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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Thanks for your answers! What about just creating a simple redirect page with a Google Analytics script on it. For example: User clicks link to example.com/ads/advertiser-1 and is taken to example.com/ads/advertiser-1/index.html, which redirects them to the advertiser landing page. The redirect would be banned from search engines via the robots.txt file and the Google Analytics script would record the number of people who click the link. Would this work?
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Old 02-16-2009, 06:33 AM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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How about a blog in blogger or other hosted sites?
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Old 03-09-2009, 09:00 AM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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Try other ppc providers and affiliate sites.
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Old 03-17-2009, 01:14 AM Re: Entering in to ad deal, how to track clicks
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Lots of services are offering this.

I would spend some time with affiliate sites because sometimes you can grab great commission if your good at what your doing.

There's tonnes of them on the net, so sign up for a wack of them. That way you can pin point your biggest winners and losers
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