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Wishful thinking for evaluating which links are being clicked on?

         

TravelSite

10:05 am on Jan 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I don't know what others think, but I get annoyed when I have two or three links on a page that all point to the same internal link - yet can't get info on which of those links have been clicked on the most. The only way to do it is to give each link a different url - which risks it being seen as different from each other.

I think it would be great if the search engines would implement a facility where they would treat something like the following as the one url, with the "link-ref" part being used merely to track where users are clicking within a page:

/wigets/blue/index.php?link-ref=1
/wigets/blue/index.php?link-ref=20
/wigets/blue/index.asp?link-ref=3

Is there any code for doing anything like this just now?

physics

6:20 am on Jan 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I don't think there's anything like what you're asking for.
However, you might be able to get at the information you want in other ways. For example, you could have a JS function log the information by adding and onClick to the link and storing the information in a file or db (use AJAX).
Or you could link to different URLs and do a 301 to the 'real' url (make sure you know what you're doing with redirects in this case).