Can someone tell me how to do a simple redirect from a blog?

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    Please help me, I just need to do a simple redirect from one site to another automatically. I want to redirect from a blog to an affiliate site so I can track how many visitors visited that aff link. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it? Thanks.
     
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  2. metalstein

    metalstein Well-Known Member

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    #2
    you can use this code

    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://www.domain.com/">
    </head>
     
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    ajsa52 Well-Known Member

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    Probably you don't want/need that kind of redirect. Because you'll lost your visitors.
    - Do you have Google Analytics on your blog ? If yes with a simple javascript attached on your affiliate link you can make a nice tracking function (to check from Google Analytics).
    - Do yo have some Database on your server ?
     
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    Please let me know what that javascript is, I do have Google Analytics.
     
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    ajsa52 Well-Known Member

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    You need something like this:
    
<html>
<body>
<a href="url_to_your_affiliate" 
   onclick="reportToGoogleAnalytics('myClickedAds/affiliate01');"
   target="_blank">Text Link to your Affiliate
</a>
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">	
  _uacct = "UA-XXXXXX-X";	
  urchinTracker(); 
  
  function reportToGoogleAnalytics( reportedUrl )
  {
    if (typeof urchinTracker == 'function') 
    {
      urchinTracker(reportedUrl);
    }
  }  
</script>

</body>
</html>
    Code (markup):
    On the code above you need to use your own _uacct value and change the 'myClickedAds/affiliate01' variable with a path suitable for you (must not exist on your site).
    As a guide you can take a look at this article for tracking AdSense Ads, but works on affiliate ads too.
     
    ajsa52, Jul 7, 2007 IP