Tracking Front Page Clicks

How to setup click tracking

[duckman]

I'm sure this is an old question, but I haven't been able to find an answer for it. So, I'm hoping someone will be kind enough to help out a newbie.

I've got a front page that has text navigation pointing to major categories. As well there are images pointing to these categories as well...

Now I'm wondering if there is a way for me to see if my user are clicking on the text links to get to these pages or are they clicking on the image?

In the past we've used redirects to count these clicks, but I understand they are not good for search engines.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TIA Duckman

[cgrantski]

Add a different value of a dummy parameter to the URLs in those links, e.g., instead of linking to internalpageXYZ.html, make the image link point to
internalpageXYZ.html?clickedon=homepageimage
and make the text link point to
internalpageXYZ.html?clickedon=homepagetext

The hits in your logs to internalpageXYZ.html will show the dummy parameters. Your stats program needs to be able to tabulate based on parameter values, but lacking that, you can import logs into Excel and get your numbers that way, as long as you limit the size to 64,000 lines or whatever Excel's limit is.

But IMHO you should keep both kinds of links going. There are image-clicking people and text-clicking people out there.