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Using a page redirect to monitor incoming traffic

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  • 14-05-2002 10:33am
    #1
    killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭


    If I want to monitor the amount of traffic coming in from a banner placed on a newsletter can I do so by linking that banner to another page on the site and then redirecting that page to the home page. And if this would work, would it be better to use a server-side redirect or could I use the META refresh tag in the head section of the redirect page.

    Muchos gracias compadres


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    #2
    Pablo
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Pablo


    hello killian :

    simplest thing you could do is have a link to say
    http://www.yourdomain.com/newsletter/
    which is just a mirror of your front page , then grep the logs and see how many times this page was called. And don't reference this page on any other part of the site (as in a link).

    There is no real need to do a redirect 'cause , as the user might get distracted , might not forward etc.


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    #3
    killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭killian


    Thanks Pablo


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    #4
    DJB
    Registered Users Posts: 706 ✭✭✭DJB


    I use the this sort of system of my site. I track visitors coming from my different marketing methods, record their ip, time, http referrer, etc. For example:

    This is my link to my website to bring you to the affiliate section:

    http://www.site-manager.com/af.asp?a=11&l=1tds9p6x2&r=affiliates

    But when you click the link, the system records the details and then redirects you to the affiliates section, which is:

    http://www.site-manager.com/affiliates

    All built in asp and vbscript, with graphical statistics for reporting and analysis.

    If you want to know how to do it... mail me at david@site-manager.com cause there is a lot involved in it.

    Regards,

    Dave


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    #5
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    yeah lads your solutions are lovely espically DJB's but for a clear cut short way of achieving exactly what he wants wouldn't it be simpler to just use something like

    http://mysite.com/index.asp?Referred=1&referid=12

    and just have the asp code read the get statement and just alter a log in accordance...this can be done quite easily and quickly to just obtain the raw stats...... if u want the full code for short message pm me r dat


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