Programmers: Counting outgoing link hits - GoFuckYourself.com

DirtyRider · 03-08-2011, 11:25 PM

I was wondering if anyone can give me info on how scripts are tracking outgoing hits and not using links like

http://www.yoursite.com/out.php?id=77
or
http://www.yoursite.com/out.php?site=goto.com

I'd like to be able to track what link was hit along with the ip address of the surfer.

Any help or providing links with info would be greatly appreciated

Kiopa_Matt · 03-08-2011, 11:55 PM

That's pretty much the only solid way to do it. You could always use mod_rewrite to clean up the links, so for example, you'd have:

http://www.domain.com/go/3425

Other way would be to add an onClick statement to your <a href> tags. For example:

<a href="http://www.somesite.com/" onclick="trackHit(34);">

Then have a Javascript function name trackHit() that sends a quick AJAX request to track the click.

Zorgman · 03-09-2011, 01:31 AM

Check out TALS
www.bigdotmedia.com/tals.php

Jakez · 03-09-2011, 01:50 AM

I track the last IP that hit a link, if the person hitting the link matches that last IP it doesn't count it, if it's the same IP that clicked it last time it does nothing. It's an extremely simple method but my stats almost always mimic google analytics.

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DirtyRider Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 819	Programmers: Counting outgoing link hits I was wondering if anyone can give me info on how scripts are tracking outgoing hits and not using links like http://www.yoursite.com/out.php?id=77 or http://www.yoursite.com/out.php?site=goto.com I'd like to be able to track what link was hit along with the ip address of the surfer. Any help or providing links with info would be greatly appreciated __________________ hello

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Kiopa_Matt Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,448	That's pretty much the only solid way to do it. You could always use mod_rewrite to clean up the links, so for example, you'd have: http://www.domain.com/go/3425 Other way would be to add an onClick statement to your <a href> tags. For example: <a href="http://www.somesite.com/" onclick="trackHit(34);"> Then have a Javascript function name trackHit() that sends a quick AJAX request to track the click. __________________ xMarkPro -- Ultimate Blog Network Management Streamline your marketing operations. Centralize management of domains, pages, Wordpress blogs, sponsors, link codes, media items, sales and traffic statistics, plus more!

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Jakez Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: oddfuturewolfgangkillthemall!!!!!!! Posts: 5,656	I track the last IP that hit a link, if the person hitting the link matches that last IP it doesn't count it, if it's the same IP that clicked it last time it does nothing. It's an extremely simple method but my stats almost always mimic google analytics. __________________ [email protected] - jakezdumb - 573689400 Killuminati