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Thanks!
-Sith
Is there another way to do this?
-Chris
if a bot then leave the links as is, if a normal user then adjust the links as detailed above.
this is a legitimate use of cloaking
point the picture link to a page like /picturelink/mylink.htm
then from that page just redirect to
mylink.htm
after having logged the click through in your database or other tracking system, then ban the /picturelink/ directory in your robots txt file to avoid dupe content.
of course ensure that one link goes directly to mylink.htm to ensure your site is spidered correctly.
(or use a variation of some sort, basically the theme being that of a click counter, any of the script sites will have them in different languages)
Thanks
-Chris
How does ClickTracks do it then without this data? Their program will show you on-page activity by importing your server logs. Somehow they must get it from these logs.
Their program will show you on-page activity by importing your server logs. Somehow they must get it from these logs
does it tell you which link has been clicked if multiple links on the same page point to the same url?
if so then i imagine it is some kind of javascript the same as has been bandied around on this forum to see which adsense ad has been clicked.
i'm not sure, personally i like to do as much as possible server side rather than using client side js which costs me bandwidth.
afaik it is impossible to tell from the logs which link has been clicked, you can get the refering page of course but not which link on that page if, there is more than one.
therefore obviously if there is only one link from a given page to a given url then obviously that link was pressed, but more than one no way to tell from the logs.
-Chris
sorry don't have time to do that, i was only passing informed comment in this thread, we use our own custom built tracking software designed to fit our needs exactly - doesn't have those cute horizontal bars though :( , just churns out text data!
but i do remember talking to the english clicktracks guy at vegas if i remember correctly, so i've emailed them to ask if they can do this, i'll let you know - though i'd be amazed if they can without you having to add parameters to the link.
It will be interesting to hear what they have to say. I look forward to their response.
-Chris
Something like this (untested code, just to show the concept):
<script>
function registerClick( pID ) {
window.location.href = '/cgi/logclick.php?' + pID;
return true;
}
</script><body>
<a href="pg1.html" onClick="return registerClick('A');">Page 1 one way</a>
<a href="pg1.html" onClick="return registerClick('B');">Page 1 another way</a>
</body>
