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how do link referals work??? - 1/11/2005 23:30:32
Lots of smaller web sites like blogs have a side bar loaded with web sites that either link to them or that they link to.
How does all that work?
Like, I figure there must be some sort of automated process involved because that would be a butt load of work to do each of those entries by hand. And I also figure that if there is some sort of automated process, then it must also track who is coming and going.
Are there any recommendations to what kind of services or scripts that do this...
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BobbyDouglas
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/11/2005 23:42:35
usually these are banner ads, that can be images/text. A good program I have used is phpadsnew that tracks this info for you.
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/12/2005 0:21:37
Bobby,
Is there software which can track how many people click on ordinary links which are scattered throughout text on a page?
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/12/2005 1:11:08
Yes. Awstats sort of does that.
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/12/2005 1:17:27
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Yes. Awstats sort of does that.
Mmn, no actually. I already use AWStats. It tracks internal and incoming links but not from our site to external.
I run a community web site and the directory links to multitudes of local businesses. We would like to persuade those businesses to donate a little for the upkeep of the site, but they doubt how many people use it.
If I can install a program which records the click throughs from directory listings I might be able to show it is effective.
They are not ads, just external links in text.
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/12/2005 1:20:47
Have you checked out hotscripts.com?
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/12/2005 1:26:37
No - mostly because I don't really know what I am looking for.
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/12/2005 2:32:50
php thanks
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/12/2005 3:57:44
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basically all of your URLs are http://yourdomain.com/link_track.php?http://domain.com/link-to-where-i-want-to-go.html
Would be ok to use?
Sure - but how does "link_track.php" record and then present the stats for viewing? Do I need to set up a database or what?
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The only other way of doing it is by installing something on our server, which you would have to get your host to do.
We are resellers, with full access to installing programs or databases in any of our sites via cPanel. Tell me what I need and I'm sure I can find out how to do it.
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/13/2005 0:49:42
Oh, well that is no good lol. $50/month? I would pass it up too. Let me keep checking.
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RE: how do link referals work??? - 1/13/2005 1:36:35
Glad you found it, wonder why I couldn't find it...
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