Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I have a Yahoo like directory where people pay for annual listings. For years we've used the following format:
www.example.com/link.asp?link=1234
This pulls up a framed page where our banner is on the top of the page and the client's site is on the bottom. We can then track the clickthrough and keep stats for our clients which we email out monthly.
In 11 years we've only run across a few minor stats programs which can't track the clickthrough -- until now. We've just confirmed that the last version of Urchin (5.7.03) does not properly track the clickthrough (at least not in the setup we've seen where they used the UTM) for IE but it works for FireFox.
Obviously this means it's time for us to change our model but to what? I see three possibilities although I'm sure there are more.
1. 301 redirect the same url to the client's site.
2. Same but use a 302.
3. Use a standard link with a JavaScript wrapper to do the stats counting.
I'd like opinions on what you believe would be the best way and why. If you choose #3, some code would be nice as well ;-)
Google uses #3 and I'm sure this option is the best for the client with regard to PageRank. I'm just wondering how difficult the javascript would be to implement and whether there aren't a few pitfalls as well.
Thoughts?
Ducki
[edited by: tedster at 5:29 pm (utc) on Oct. 13, 2006]
[edit reason] use example.com [/edit]
