Hi friends, I would like to know if anyone is using their own tracking system for CJ or other networks. Is it possible to use our own tracking system.
I track everything and compare it to CJ Stats. There are a lot of ways to do this... and if you want to make money you'll figure out a method that works for you. The more you know about the links the better decisions you can make.
If you know about PHP, then you can write a simple system - instead of directly linking with the links CJ gives you, link to your own redirect page, something like: http://www.mysite.com/redirect.php?url=[CJ link]. You could also add your own tracking codes, like &track=WATERCOOLERS (damn, that's given my niche away ) Then on that redirect.php page you can register the clickthrough in your dbase against the tracking code, add a timestamp too, and then redirect the user to the CJ link automatically. The user won't know anything about it, and the added advantage is that you can cloak the link in some way and then "decloak" in the redirect.php file. Of course, then you have to DO something with those stats, but a simple system would allow you do list clicks by tracking code, for a given time period. Dirt simple, but works. You could have a centralised redirect file that way, which would collect data on and redirect all your sites.