Stil, Very nice reference... Thanks for the link :-)
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Stilgherrian wrote: S> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:17:43AM +0200, gg wrote: S> > hi there! S> > perhaps someone can help me with the following question: S> > is there a feature in analog, that enables to measure clickrates on S> > banners? S> > thank you S> > g.gessner S> S> The short answer is "No, not with Analog." S> S> Indeed, not with *any* software which solely looks at your web server S> logs. S> S> The decision to follow a link takes place in a user's web browser. So if S> they're clicking on a banner ad to go to a *different* site, you won't see S> that in *your* web server logs. S> S> If you had access to the advertisers' web server logs, then you could S> cross-match their logs with yours to identify the click-throughs. That'd S> be a real pain though. S> S> A far better solution is this: Make the banner ads into links to a script S> that runs on your server. That script logs the hit -- and then redirects S> the user to the "real" destination, i.e. the advertiser's website. S> S> Randal L Schwartz wrote a Perl version of this for the May 1988 edition of S> "Web Techniques" magazine. He even included a script that runs through all S> the pages of your website, and changes *all* of the external links so S> they're tracked in this way. S> S> http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1998/05/perl/ S> S> Kind regards, S> S> Stil -- Steve Pirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] . deathcon.com . pirk.com . webops.com . t2servers.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
