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Track clicks on my advertiser's banners

by Vcize
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I've finally gotten my site to the point where I have people coming to me and asking to pay for advertising space. Now, is there a way I can track how often my advertiser's banners are being clicked on? I'd like to figure out where the best spots are for these banners, and if their claims that they need a lower rate due to the number of clicks they're getting are true, etc.

I have google analytics installed but didn't see it tracked anywhere in there.
#advertiser #banners #click #track
  • Profile picture of the author johnnyN
    you can manually make google analytics track your clicks

    there is instructions here
    google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55527
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  • Profile picture of the author layouts4you
    you could write a simple tracking script and make the links of the banners domain.com/track.php?id=1 and track each time someone clicks on the banner by storing the clicks in mysql or a file.

    i could write you something in a matter of 15 mins if you need it. jsut need to know if you want it stored in the database and a way to see it there or see it stored in text files.

    it really all depends on how much tracking you need like ip address of the person clicking, date and time, ect.

    give me a shout if you need my help for this.

    also there are tons of free banner scripts out there on the web if you want to go that way also.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vcize
    Hmm, it looks like the drupal analytics plugin I was using actually set up event tracking by default, I just didn't know where to go to find it.

    Thanks guys.
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  • Profile picture of the author mihir
    openx or google.com/admanager
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