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How to Track Redirect Visitors?

by charlesburke
6 replies
My friend is buying banner ads, and he wants to track which ads are most effective.

When visitors click on a banner, it takes them to a dedicated redirect on his own website and then forwards them to the Amazon sales page where his book is displayed. Different banners would go through different redirects.

I've found plenty of scripts that say they track outbound clicks, but I can't seem to find any that track visitors who are only passing through.

Is there such a thing?

Cheers from warm and smiling Thailand,
Charles
#redirect #track #visitors
  • Profile picture of the author mgreener
    Pretty Link plugin for Wordpress does this, although I'm not sure you're using Wordpress.

    There are definitely other scripts that do this though.
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  • Profile picture of the author charlesburke
    Hi mgreener,

    Thanks much for the suggestion. Pretty Link is a great plugin and I'll probably be using it for some of my projects now that I know about it.

    However, I installed this plugin on one of my own blogs and it doesn't appear to do what my friend needs.

    I probably didn't explain it clearly enough, but the clicks will be coming from other websites, passing through several different PHP redirect pages at my friend's site, and then being sent on to Amazon.

    For the purposes of this project nobody will be clicking anything at his website. All traffic is going to be transient. They'll come from afar, and travel on afar, only passing through for the briefest of instants.

    And I can't quite figure out how to track that.

    Cheers,
    Charles
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Lindsay
    The StatCounter.com service will track your redirect links and you can sign up for a free account.

    The tracking code works well with this simple HTML redirect code:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Page Title Here</title>
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.redirecturl.com">
    </head>
    <body>

    <h3>Re-directing...</h3>

    <!-- Your Stat Counter Code Goes here -->

    </body>
    </html>

    If the tracking does not work, you may need to place a 1 second delay in the redirect by changing the '0' to a '1' in the following line:

    <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.redirecturl.com">

    If you add the 1 second delay, you can also replace the text "Re-directing..." with a banner or anything else you like which will be displayed for the second or so that the page is displayed during redirect.
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