URL Tracking for Intenal Links

url tracking

[stevesko]

Hi,

I want to track which link on a page is being clicked on (when multiple links to the same destination exist) so I would like to implement url tracking inside my site (ie: contact.aspx would become contact.aspx?link=1 and contact.aspx?link=2).

Do you think this would dilute the PR of the page?

I know if you have incoming links www.site.com and www.site.com/default.htm that this would split the PR. I DONT want this to happen.

Steve

[babblero]

I do not think it would degrade PR for a page that exists on the same site as links from one page to another on the same site should hardly change the overall PR.
Asking on an SEO forum may also be helpful.

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You might do the following...

You could get a list of google referrers or ip's or check for the googlebot user agent and those of any other engine you wanted and write the links for them with the GET?link=3.

On the destination page you could track them as 'spider' clicks rather than 'link1' or 'link2' clicks.

As you are not purposefully tricking google by changing the content itself but only trying to track human users it seems perfectly ethical to write slightly different code for the link.

And if a SE employed human inspector goes to your site to check for corruption or depravity they should not be bothered by a mere GET.

I haven't written any code that is different for the engines than users but your's seems a reasonable reason to do so.

It is definitely a quandry and I am looking forward to any other solutions.