kposse77
18-02-2006 09:51:58
How do you track the number of people going through your site? I'm thinking of getting a domain name that's forwarding to another site, but to I have to point to like a "middle-man" page that will track the hit and then redirect a person again?
Tholek
18-02-2006 10:08:04
You could do that, but I think that even if you had a pure redirect, the domain company could still track hits. I guess whether or not they'd provide those statistics depends on the company.
justinag06
18-02-2006 12:20:56
I don't mean to get your hopes up but I doubt you will get any random referrals. If you are hoping people just type in your URL and go green, you may get 5 signups per year, but nothing more than that probably
Anyhow I track my traffic through my advertisers usually. I tend to find 1/100 - 1/200 clicks = 1 green.
Tholek
18-02-2006 12:47:54
I doubt most people do redirects without some additional promotion of some kind. (flyers etc)
Unfortunately, I think your statistics are correct. (
kmg9000
18-02-2006 13:04:37
I have a redirect with pure type-ins that gets me 1-2 greens a week. You just need to get the right domain.
Admin
18-02-2006 13:05:44
kposse77 if you have php-enabled webhosting on your domain, you can do some pretty complex stuff fairly easily. if i were you, i would probably get bbclone (http//bbclone.de) and install it. create an index.php in the root of your domain and have it look something like
[code13df2da519e]
define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", "Redir");
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);
header("Location: http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=123");
[/code13df2da519e]
the redirect will be more or less 'instantaneous' from the user's point of view, and you'll get complex stats from bbclone.
kposse77
18-02-2006 13:09:32
[quote16e46e8c90="Admin"]kposse77 if you have php-enabled webhosting on your domain, you can do some pretty complex stuff fairly easily. if i were you, i would probably get bbclone (http//bbclone.de) and install it. create an index.php in the root of your domain and have it look something like
[code116e46e8c90]
define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", "Redir");
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);
header("Location: http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=123");
[/code116e46e8c90]
the redirect will be more or less 'instantaneous' from the user's point of view, and you'll get complex stats from bbclone.[/quote16e46e8c90]
Sweet I'll take a look into it. Thanks! +kma