Please can someone tell me the best way to make the following work:
I need adwords ads to land on a page that has a site meter and then the landing page to redirect the user to the clients site.
The adwords ad correctly reflect the clients site, have 0 delay, but the landing page is hosted on my own website.
So I need to get from adwords to mysite.com to clients-site.com without breaking google rules and giving me a place to put a site meter.
I understand the issue is in part not breaking the back button, but how can I do this?
Many thanks
Paul
Your metrics site has to send a redirect back to the browser, with no content. That will satisfy Google. This should have no effect on the "back" button.
Good idea - and many people do this - but you're trying to use the wrong technology. A "site meter" ain't gonna do it. You probably want to record more than just the fact of a "hit" anyway. Google gives you a number of attributes in the URL that you probably want to stuff in a database somewhere, along with the referrer, time and date, etc.
Basic idea is: record all the details about the hit in a database, redirect to the real landing page. A seperate application or webpage allows you to view or summarize the contents of the database.
You could write this yourself, or there are many packages you can buy or get for free, as well as commercial or free services that you can use rather than using your own website.
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"You could write this yourself, or there are many packages you can buy or get for free, as well as commercial or free services that you can use rather than using your own website."
I have heard of report magic but nothing else.
Thanks
Paul
