Ad management and tracking?

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Last Post: July 11, 2011   (RSS)

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By Toledoh - July 9, 2011

Hi Nigel,

Are you able to control the link from, or only the link to?

If you can indetify the link, have a look at: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578

This will give you the ability to track via google analytics.
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [Toledoh] Ad management and tracking?

By NigelGordijk - July 9, 2011

Hi, Tim.

My client is selling ad space on their site, and they'd like to be able to see how many people click on each ad. Therefore, the client will want to review the number of people who responded to an ad one of their clients placed, rather than the visitors to their own site.

Cheers,
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
Tel: 001 519 342 5348 | Web: www.commonsensedesign.net

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By Toledoh - July 9, 2011

You may need to look into http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/detail.php?Report-Builder-1043 This way, you could build the report in the admin and have various users be able to it/them.

Outside of my scope though... maybe consulting.
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By robin - July 11, 2011

Hey Nigel,

I've seen clients setup their ads/social media links by having them go to an intermediate page like "outbound.php" that tracks their click and then forwards them along.

Hope that helps,
Robin
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com

Re: [robin] Ad management and tracking?

By NigelGordijk - July 11, 2011

Would I need to have a separate page for each ad, to track specific page traffic? e.g. outboundAd1.php, outboundAd2.php.
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
Tel: 001 519 342 5348 | Web: www.commonsensedesign.net

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By robin - July 11, 2011

Hey Nigel,

You could num of your ad to the outbound page, then process it accordingly. So the link might look like: outbound.php?ad=5. Then you only need one page to handle ad counting.

Hope that helps,
Robin
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com