I have my first blog up and I am starting to get a couple viewers daily now and I want to see what banners are getting views and which are getting clicks, how do I track my own banners stats ?
Small database, or XML file. Create a PHP redirect, when it is clicked it adds 1 to whatever id you've assigned the banner. Bam have some small script to read the database/xml file and you are good to go. Then you can add click times, and stuff too.