Click Counter

Does anyone know of something that would count the number of clicks a banner gets on a website?

 

By posting it in the SEO forum, are you implying you want an SEO friendly click counter? That doesn't exist. At least not if you want it accurate.

 

I'm looking for anything SEO friendly or not.

 

OK, then you posted it in the wrong forum. I'll move it to programming. Any specific platform you want? PHP can count it but not SEO friendly. Same with Javascript or ASP etc. Just use a redirect and update the count just before you send the document headers. There will be plenty of code examples on hotscripts.com.

 

OK, that sounds good. Could you give me the link to the thread. Thank you. Could you explain this a bit further, "ust use a redirect and update the count just before you send the document headers."

 

Just browse there, it's in Programming.

It works like this. Your link has an id. You pass the id to the counter. The counter logs a click for that id. Then the counter forwards it to the landing page.

Very simplictically your database table looks like this:

|id|target_url|count|
|1|http://www.microsoft.com|10|
You link to microsoft like this:

"Download IE from <a href="clickcount.php?id=1">Microsoft</a>"

In clickcount.php you have:

$landing_url = SELECT target_url from click_table WHERE id = $_GET['id'];

$log_click = UPDATE click_table SET count = (count +1);

header location:$landing_url

Disclaimer: the above doesn't work, just schematically drawn structure of it all.

 

I think you would be better off getting an add management system. There are some really good free ones. It would make tracking your stats much easier.

 

You can do it an SEO-friendly way by using 301 redirects in the PHP header() call, rather than the default 302.
Most SE's these days seem to pick up on 301 redirects ( eventually ) and assign the benefit of the links accordingly