How can i monitor clicks on links in multiple sites ?

clicks links multiple sites

[kikkoroma]

Hi,
i would like to manage a small advertising campaign giving people links to my websites. I would like to have reports on how many clicks they generate on the links they put into their websites. How can i do this ? There is a software ? i do not need a complete ad management script, but just something to monitor multiple websites activity . thank you

[McElvoy]

If they are putting links into their web sites that go to your site, then you need to make sure that the links are coded with an extra parameter name-value pair (such as source=othersite1 and source=othersite2). The value needs to be unique for that site. Then, if you have logs for your site, you just open them and count the lines that contain these strings. If you are using an analytics package, each package will report more easily on this traffic if you use the parameter names appropriate to the analytics package. "Source=" may not be the best parameter name. For Google Analytics, the parameter names begin with "utm" --- go to the documentation and search on "campaign tracking" for more specifics.

[kikkoroma]

thank you,i'm going to try with this :)

[kikkoroma]

Ok seems it can work. But how can i prevent people from posting the tracked link into other websites ? I mean : i own website.com and pay clicks received from website fun.com . If the owner of fun.com put the link i give him (the one created with analytics) into another website (maybe spamming) , will i be able to see it ?

[cgrantski]

You can pay them only for visits that have their site in the referrer field of the hit.

If they wanted to fake the referrer, they could. It's possible if they know the right techniques, like using frames in a certain way. If they know the right techniques, maybe you shouldn't be doing business with them in the first place.

They could still just have their friends and relatives click on the link in order to get paid.

[kikkoroma]

I see but for example Tradedoubler uses a script thats says if you are putting the ad code in a not allowed websites. I would like something to see if the click comes from the "wrong" website .

[cgrantski]

Okay, got it. That's interesting.