For the future, James's suggestions of using the Internal Search Engine report is excellent. That means using a 'variable' and 'value' as your CGI argument, but makes managing the clickthrough tracking almost easy!
For the current, you will end up with both problems. First you should see what the referrer is for the site when it works. Click on your ad on the site and then look at the end of your web server log and see where your click had a referrer from. However, you will not get all clicks counted that way. Some will have no referrer recorded at all. There is nothing you can do to "recover" these. The information was never given so cannot be counted. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group Kally M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:45 PM): > Thanks Jeremy, > That's exactly the info I needed. I will use a url with parameters in > the future. For the present - are you saying that there might be NO > referrer recorded? Or are you just saying that the referrer may not > be the site we are expecting? When I look at the referrer report and > throw out the page views from Google, Yahoo, etc. and the sites we > know have links to ours, there are not enough page views left for ALL > the remaining referrers to add up to the click-throughs they say we > are getting. Is this possible? > Thanks, > Kathleen ~~~ > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:03:50 -0700, Jeremy Wadsack wrote: >> >> >>The best way to collect and track clickthroughs is to give the ad >>company a unique URL to use for each campaign. You can then use >>Analog's FILEINCLUDE script to create a report that looks for just >>that result (or look for it in your Request Report). >>This is further complicated because some browsers don't present >>referrer information when a redirection is followed. That is, when >>the >>user clicks on the link, the click-tracking script tells the user's >>browser to look at your site. But the browser may not tell your site >>that the user was referred from the original ad site or the site >>hosting the script at all. >> >>A simple way of building a "unique URL" is to add a CGI parameter to >>the end of the request. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@;lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
