Hi there, I there any FREE script or any thing through which i can track clicks on my advertisers banners or text links placed on my email newsletter. Please help
Download OpenX and use that for all your advertising needs even if you decide to sell space it will track clicks and impression.
Is that even possible? I'd think you can only track email ad's stat from affiliate link, or rely on javascript/ajax which most mail clients block that anyway. If this is actually possible can anyone give me an example on how to do this - tutorials may be?
The OP did say text links in emails and or the program openx will work in the same manor with banner advertisements on a website.
You may write your own script to do this preferably with a mysql database (or else with a text file). I'll list down the steps briefly. 1. In you email, you must put links to a php code like this. Ex: yourdomain.com/adclick.php?code=1234 Note that 1234 is the advertisement code here. 2. On the database you must have a reference to real website with respect to advertisement code. Ex: CODE | LINK | COUNT 1234 | http://myclient.com/file.htm | 0 3. On adclick.php, when it is called, you need to fetch the record for advertisement code, increase the COUNT by 1 and redirect to the address specified by LINK. 4. For more detailed analysis, you may have another table to store date/time of click, Client IP, etc... with respect to same advertisement code. Simple as that.
Hi NeoCambell, I have 1 problem, I don't know how to write scrip and how to work with databases. The only thing i can do is to add readyment script.