Everyday
04-03-2002, 12:56 AM
When you're doing a lot of adds on different sites...like 10 or more how do keep track of them all and check on them through the month?
Is there anytype of software that I can download to help keep track of these? Or a web service perhaps?
If not, might be a good idea....
DWood
04-03-2002, 02:21 AM
You could get them to link to yoursite.com/tracker.php?http://referrer.com and setup a program that counts how many clicks come from each referrer, pretty simple. There are lots of scripts which do this. Then just have that page redirect to yoursite, you are good to go.
Starhost
04-03-2002, 06:59 AM
Just use a simple PHP&MySQL script to do it. Every img request can also be done through PHP so then you are able to see if a certain site shows your add. (add least they include it somewhere), this can also be a iframe, so be ware!!). What I should do is log the refering website and the page that is requesting the image.
Log the amount of clicks and then I would display the amount of clicks and views on a certain website through a script. I also should log wich banner is clicked the most. So you can better target your advertisings.
Such programms already excist (see www.hotscripts.com) Or else there are enough people who are able to make such a scripts/programs.
Good luck!
Everyday
04-03-2002, 08:34 PM
Well I'm not looking for something that tells me how may are coming to my site, I already have that. I just setup my affiliate program to track them. :)
What I mean is, you are running 2 banners a skyscraper and two or three "sponsor" type adds with say 5 or 10 or 15 or more web sites. how do keep track of each one? The link to check the stats, impressions, time remaining in the campaign etc...
Starhost
04-04-2002, 04:45 PM
That will depend on your programm. So they only one who can give you an answer to that is the designer of the program.
Tetraboy
04-04-2002, 06:59 PM
Check out phpmyadsnew ( search on google ) It's free and does everything you could want. Though the last time I used it, it was terribly buggy so I wrote my own.