Possible to split test with PHP redirects?

by Art Turner

Posted: 18 years ago 4 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi all,

I'm sending traffic to an affiliate link with the following code in a php file:

Code:

<?php
header( 'Location: http://someaffiliatelink.here.clickbank.net/' ) ;
?>

Can I use php to alternate between two (or more) different hoplinks?

Like I have traffic coming to the php file on my site. But I don't know which affiliate link converts better, so I just want to distribute my hops between two or more urls and track the conversion rate.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!

Art

#php #redirects #split

Colin Evans 18 years ago

For testing two pages:

<?php
$redirect[0] = 'http://www.your-site.com/page-one.html';
$redirect[1] = 'http://www.your-site.com/page-two.html';

$number = mt_rand(0,1);

header("Location:$redirect[$number]");
?>

For testing three pages:

<?php
$redirect[0] = 'http://www.your-site.com/page-one.html';
$redirect[1] = 'http://www.your-site.com/page-two.html';
$redirect[2] = 'http://www.your-site.com/page-three.html';

$number = mt_rand(0,2);

header("Location:$redirect[$number]");
?>

Just change the links (in red) to your hoplinks...
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- Art Turner 18 years ago
  
  Thanks Colin,
  
  Looks like exactly what I need. I was starting to think that random numbers would be involved.
  
  Thanks again,
  Art
  
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  robchuah 18 years ago
  
  Or even better, insert the redirection count into MySQl and track it in a more detail manner
  
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  Tirmizi 18 years ago
  
  this will surely help others too . thanks colin , would have bougth you a beer but i guess those days are gone ;-d
  
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Possible to split test with PHP redirects?

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