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How to count how many times a link is clicked

by TinPete
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Hi Everyone,

I'm just starting to get my act together promoting an affiliate offer at Maskers For Tinnitus and I want to figure out how to optimize my page so I can get more people to click through to my vendors web site.

I am currently using a single PHP redirect file as the link to send people to the Vendors page but I need a way to count how often the redirect link is used, or ideally what percentage of visitors click the link.

I also need a way to reset that count to zero so that when I make a change to the page I can start over and get fresh numbers.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch!

- Pete
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  • Profile picture of the author XoC
    Pete,

    There's probably a few things out there on Hot-scripts but Google actually has a really good tool for this - googlecom/websiteoptimizer
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  • Profile picture of the author ussher
    before you send them off to the url via the redirect, log the incoming details into a mysql table.

    if you want to build it yourself.

    I use Adtrackz to do the same thing.
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    • Profile picture of the author TinPete
      Thanks guys... didn't know stuff like that even existed!

      I'll be sure and check them out.
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  • Profile picture of the author hhunt
    These are some of the things I've developed to monitor my sites. Although there are some tools out there for this sort of tasks, I wanted to take control of how it works - and besides, wanted to spend my weekend programming.

    That said, log all clicks in a simple database table, increment it on every click. Have a method that shows you total value saved.

    If you are struggling and need custom script written for you, then post here.

    Good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author st8ic
      If you don't want to be bothered with creating an SQL table, do this:

      1. Make a text file called "count.txt" containing the number 0 in the same directory as your redirect script.

      2. Before the redirect, insert this:

      <?php
      $fp = fopen("count.txt", "r");
      $count = fread($fp, 1024);
      fclose($fp);
      $count++;
      $fp = fopen("count.txt", "w");
      fwrite($fp, $count);
      fclose($fp);
      ?>

      (sorry I can't use code tags, this forum is retarded and it strips terms with a dollar sign)

      3. To reset your counter, open the text file and set it back to 0.
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      • Profile picture of the author rixlo
        Originally Posted by st8ic View Post

        If you don't want to be bothered with creating an SQL table, do this:
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      • Profile picture of the author Johnletton
        Originally Posted by st8ic View Post

        If you don't want to be bothered with creating an SQL table, do this:

        1. Make a text file called "count.txt" containing the number 0 in the same directory as your redirect script.

        2. Before the redirect, insert this:

        <?php
        = fopen("count.txt", "r");
        = fread(, 1024);
        fclose();
        ++;
        = fopen("count.txt", "w");
        fwrite(, );
        fclose();
        ?>

        (sorry I can't use code tags, this forum is retarded and it strips terms with a dollar sign)

        3. To reset your counter, open the text file and set it back to 0.
        I agree with you the way discussed it truly beautiful.
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  • Profile picture of the author TinPete
    Thanks everyone,

    Those are great tips, and it sounds like they do exactly what I am looking for. I'll start playing with them right away!
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  • Profile picture of the author ionisis
    Use php mysql to store the traffic AND clicks. Use the url as the primary key (for simplicity). Reset count to 0 after editing the page/link, manually or via a script. Store the Date along with the data, so you can compile reports, if you wish, and so you can isolate changes, and their effects.
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  • Profile picture of the author yangyang
    I wrote an article about how to count the number of times a file has been downloaded or the number of times a file is accessed: Simplest PHP Hit Counter or Download Counter &ndash; Count the Number of Times of Access (Page Views or File Downloads)

    You can easily modify the script to count the number of times a specific URL has been accessed / clicked.
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  • Profile picture of the author LorrieJean
    I noticed your using wp~ I like pretty links for affiliate links and sometimes internal links too~ If you use the link description feature it's simple to see how many clicks are going where.

    Great Thread and awesome PHP Thanks to @st8ic
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  • Profile picture of the author danieljames123
    Hey"radhika" I checked it and I think it is best way for check that how many times clicked our sites.
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