Tracking my client's site without ftp access possible?

He can't edit source code. I have no ftp access.

[silverbytes]

Scenario:

I send potential clients from mi site to my client's site.
So I want to proof my site is good and sends every month a lot of visits (which is true!).

But 1) He don't use stats
2) He don't know how tu put a line of code (I do have a stats script)
3) I have no ftp access to his site (for pasting myself the code line)

I need to know how many traffic he's receiving because my charges are based on traffic. So I wonder: is there any service that can track visits and referers of a given site in that conditions?

How can I get stats from him?
Since my site is a directory I can't request all ftp data from each site...

Any help please?

[martinibuster]

Some stat programs will track your exit links, the exact links. Open tracker for instance tracks what links people took to get out of your site.

So, while you may not be able to track incoming visitors to his site, you can track outgoing surfers from your site to his.

[silverbytes]

I have a program that considers exit pages.
But what does that mean?

in page A I have 10 links...
exit page A doens't tell me where the user goes... is there 10 links there...

In case I have 1 link only: does it means he clicked on my link to the external site? Or he quited the browser?

[martinibuster]

Get a different or an additional program. I don't know about other programs but opentracker does track individual exit links. They have a 4 week free trial. Their code is only three lines long.

[Sinner_G]

Or just link to a page on your site (e.g. linktoclient.html) and from there refresh to your client's site. Then you only have to see in your stats how often linktoclient.html has been used.

[martinibuster]

Can't a refresh get you in trouble with the search engines?

[silverbytes]

Yep. I think so...

[Sinner_G]

Can't a refresh get you in trouble with the search engines?

That page will not be indexed, but then again you don't really want it to be. I don't *think* that would be enough to get the whole site banned.

OTOH, you could make the refresh in JavaScript, which is not (at the moment) read by spiders, so the redirect will not get detected.

That method won't pass PR to your clients site, though.

[AussieWebmaster]

If you are using the refresh page as a listed page on your site it will get you into problems with Google etc... I would suggest you create a robots.txt page and have that page as a do not spider page and you would be fine.