Hi, we are developing a shopping price comparison portal. Our website will list products and the various online stores that are selling it along with their prices. The customers can compare the prices on our site, pick the best deal and follow the outgoing link to the online seller's website to complete the purchase. For this, we need to track the number of outgoing clicks from our site to the affiliate sites. This will help us with our CPC campaign so we can charge the sellers accordingly. Please suggest the different/best ways to do this?
If you are developing a site -- as in you have an actual coder who is programming it -- this should be extremely, extremely simple. If it isn't, I suggest you find a new programmer. There are about 50 different ways of handling this, all of which are quite easy to implement.
Thx for the clarification. Actually, our requirement is specific - we don't want to track all the outgoing clicks together. We need to be able track and separate the clicks originating from a webpage (product) to different sellers. For instance, there can be 5 outgoing clicks (from 5 different products) to one seller's website, and 3 outgoing clicks from 3 other products to a different seller. We need to track these separately so we can bill the online sellers as per the clicks generated to their site.