[PHP] What's this image tag for?

2007-01-05 Thread Skip Evans
Hey all, I'm building a site for a client that is using this system called Linkshare to link to web sites for stores and it's one of those deals where they provide the link code so my client gets credit for sending the person to the store's site. Common enough, but there is one thing about

Re: [PHP] What's this image tag for?

2007-01-05 Thread Simon Forster
On 5 Jan 2007, at 14:38, Skip Evans wrote: a href=http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click? id=5sJlsTOpnzEofferid=115126.1505type=4subid=0IMG alt=Sharper Image border=0 src=http:// www.sharperimagespecials.com/banners/Promos/11_Nov06/ fshproplus_1106_125x125.gif/aIMG border=0 width=1

Re: [PHP] What's this image tag for?

2007-01-05 Thread Skip Evans
I thought it would be something like that. So here's another question I'd appreciate thoughts on: If I have ten of these links on a page, linking to ten different stores, should I include one of these IMG links on each link, just as they say to cut and paste? Or should there only be one per

Re: [PHP] What's this image tag for?

2007-01-05 Thread Stut
Skip Evans wrote: I thought it would be something like that. So here's another question I'd appreciate thoughts on: If I have ten of these links on a page, linking to ten different stores, should I include one of these IMG links on each link, just as they say to cut and paste? Or should

Re: [PHP] What's this image tag for?

2007-01-05 Thread Skip Evans
Stut wrote: That's really a question for the ad company to answer according to their policy. You'll probably an answer in their instructions somewhere. We can't give you an authoritative answer on a specific company's policy. Good point. I finally was able to track down their contact info

Re: [PHP] What's this image tag for?

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Lynch
It makes it look like you displayed an advertisement, even though you shrunk it down to 1x1, so it's not generally noticeable to the user. Often used for tracking a user across domains for legitimate and illegitimate purposes, and for racking up pennies for showing ads without actually showing