Can anyone recommend a self hosted link tracking and redirection script?

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone can recommend a self hosted link tracking script and/or link redirection script. Either PHP based or wordpress based?

I currently use ClickMeter.com to track my external links. I don't have sites for these links, so that's why I use clickmeter to track the success of my external links and I use them to redirect it with my affiliate links.

However something shady has been happening lately. On more than one occasion I've seen someone else using ClickMeter links in the same exact niche that I am in, on the same exact keywords that I use where there is little to no competition around. Now maybe there are other affiliates utilizing their link tracking service, but it's a little odd that I am seeing it more often in multiple different unrelated keywords that I am in. I am suspicious it could be someone working on the inside at ClickMeter poaching my campaigns.

Anyways to quell my paranoia I would love to ditch them completely, save the $30 a month and purchase my own script.
What ClickMeter is good as is seeing who clicks on your links. It doesn't matter where your links are, you can see what country, city, state, IP, organization, browser and OS types and more. Similar to what you get in Google Analytics or any other analytics, but this is data you get about your links without having a website. I think it's a great service and tool, but I want something I can manage on my own VPS server so I know my data is safe and secure.

Ideally it would be a simple script I can use the track my links to show me what country, state/province, city, and IP and keywords (if applicable) my clicks are coming from and also show it using charts or something I can export into excel would be nice and show by custom date ranges. Also I need a way to re-direct the links to another URL, and use it for link redirection for my affiliate links.

Is there any tool out there like this similar to clickmeter for external links that I can install a script on my own sever and run? Please let me know.
Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author fartarific
    does anyone know or can recommend something please?
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  • Profile picture of the author thinkrich
    BestDamnRedirect
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  • Profile picture of the author johnnyN
    I remember using something called prosper202 , they had 2 options, 1 was hosted on their server, but they also offered a download to install on your own server.
    not sure if they still offer it.

    you could also just use google analytics no?
    I created a a cloaking plugin that adds tracking codes to work with google analytics. it works just fine for me (2 for 1 plugin )
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  • Profile picture of the author wowcolombia1
    I im a little noob to this but i hope i can answer your question.
    I use something called Seoquake to see how many external links and internal your website haves.Its very good but im not sure if thats what you are looking for
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  • Profile picture of the author fartarific
    hey thanks for your guys suggestions,
    -i cant use google analytics because i dont use my own site or landing page
    -prosper/tracking 202 doesn't show you on a granular level where you're clicks are coming from (like country, state/province, city, IP, etc.)
    -pretty links for wordpress, yes ive used it, but it doesn't provide any stats for what i need
    -bestdamnredirect, never heard of it, does it show you geographically where all your clicks are coming from like city/country,state, IP, etc? thats what i need.

    thanks.
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