That would be the way that I would do it... If you wanted to cut down on spiders you could just filter by the User Agent variable inside of the CGI scope. For a list of ones go to:
http://www.user-agents.org/ Just do an if statement and don't log their hit if the useragent equals one of the known spiders. That would help make your stats a little more conclusive. J.J. On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:30 PM, L Schaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to track outbound links to one of our affiliates. I set up a > page that allows me to insert user info. into my database, and then > redirects to the affiliate's site by using cflocation. Is this the best way > for me to track? My numbers are much higher than our affiliates, who are > using NextStats. I'm thinking that I'm probably counting hits to the page > from spiders, etc., and not exclusively counting clicks on the link. Any > ideas? Thank you! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/message.cfm/messageid:3515 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
