Hey I was wondering about why some links have a ? at the end after the .com and then some weird text like, www.google.com?somelinklovefromchow What does this do? Is this for tracking traffic? How would one best use this? I have arcadebuilder on my arcade and when I want to do a link exchange there is a "referral link" for tracking I suppose, but I can't figure out how to track the results. Any ideas? Thanks.
I believe he means like this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=699669 I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's referring to a table location.
The (?) at the end of a url indicates that the data is being passed from one web page to another webpage using the querystring method. Anything after the ? in webpage1 is passed to webpage2 as a parameter. So, for example, if webpage1 wants to pass a customer_id to webpage2, it might look like http://www.someurl.com?custid=123 where custid denotes customer id and 123 is the actual record number of the customer. Webpage2 can then use the 123 to find that customer in a database. There are many ways to use querystrings but this is a good general example.