I've been out of the game for a few years and I can't remember how to best do this, nor can I find an answer online.
I want to track links from inside an ebook to my website and third-party sites. Once the book is released, I'll have no way to change things so I need to ensure it's a viable and long-term solution.
This is not a money-making project so I'd prefer not to spend money on tracking, but I would like some insight about which links are getting clicked and what's popular.
There will be links to the same page/site from different pages within the book which I'd like to track individually, so I figure some sort of query string would be appropriate for different pages.
Something that Awstats can keep track of would be great.
Would something as simple as "mysite.com/landingpage1?=page10" work?
For links to third-party sites I'll need to do a redirect through my website, both for tracking and so I can change destination URLs if needed. 301 redirects won't work since they won't pass through the query string.
Thanks for any ideas!
