Hi ya all, I see AwStats shows clicks to my site but what about clicks out?<br /><br />I want to know how many clicks a link on my site is getting.<br /><br />Maybe there is something I cant find in CPanel or maybe someone knows a handy little script that could be installed.<br /><br />Any info appreciated.<br /><br />Regards, Wayne <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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Hi ya all, I see AwStats shows clicks to my site but what about clicks out?<br /><br />I want to know how many clicks a link on my site is getting.<br /><br />Maybe there is something I cant find in CPanel or maybe someone knows a handy little script that could be installed.<br /><br />Any info appreciated.<br /><br />Regards, Wayne <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="h34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" /><!--content-->
Wayne, there is no need to double post. I have merged the two topics.<br /><br />From the forum guidelines.<br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->o Family Members may not create duplicate threads (cross-posting).<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--content-->
There is nothing in CPanel that will do what you're asking.<br /><br />When you click on an ordinary link, the user's browser contacts the linked site directly, so your site will never see anything to capture or count.<br /><br />The only thing I can think of that you could use to do this is a redirection script. All of the links on your site would be changed to point at the redirection script instead of the target site. For example, if you had a link like this on one of your pages:<br /><!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1--><a href=http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/"http://www.example.com">Some nifty site</a><!--c2--></div><!--ec2--><br />...you would construct the link to use the redirection script instead:<br /><!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1--><a href=http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/"http://www.your-TCH-site.com/redir.php?site=http://www.example.com">Some nifty site</a><!--c2--></div><!--ec2--><br />With a setup such as this, it is trivial for the redirection script to keep track of the number of times various links in your site are being clicked on, since it sees each link when it is clicked.<br /><br />Redirection scripts do have a couple of downsides that I'm aware of:<br /><br />1) Google will not pass on any page rank to any page that you have linked through a redirection script on your site. (All of your links will technically point at your site - either internal links or links to your redirection script.)<br /><br />2) If the redirection script is not written properly (securely), it can be possible for a mailicous spammer to redirect their own links through your site, letting them spam all they wish and making it appear that *you* are the spammer.<br /><br />I don't personally know of any such redirect scripts, but I wouldn't think they'd be hard to find.<!--content-->
<!--QuoteBegin-waynemac+Apr 14 2005, 09:27 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(waynemac @ Apr 14 2005, 09:27 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi ya all, I see AwStats shows clicks to my site but what about clicks out?<br /><br />I want to know how many clicks a link on my site is getting.<br /><br />Maybe there is something I cant find in CPanel or maybe someone knows a handy little script that could be installed.<br /><br />Any info appreciated.<br /><br />Regards, Wayne <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="h34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=124705"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Instead of using the actual link to the site, use a redirect.<br />Something as simply as an html page that contains a refresh with the actual url to.<br />Then you can see the hits on that html page.<br /><br />Or maybe a script that you pass a url to, and it creates the redirector.<br /><br />Shouldn't be too hard to write I wouldn't think.<br /><br />If no one else comes up with something, I'll whip something up this afternoon for you in perl/cgi<!--content-->
<!--QuoteBegin-TCH-David+Apr 14 2005, 08:04 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TCH-David @ Apr 14 2005, 08:04 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Redirection scripts do have a couple of downsides that I'm aware of:<br /><br />1) Google will not pass on any page rank to any page that you have linked through a redirection script on your site. (All of your links will technically point at your site - either internal links or links to your redirection script.)<br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=124710"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Actually there is a tad more to the problem. The googlebot sees the two links, the original page and your redirect link, as two seperate pages with identical information, so it deletes one of those pages from it's database. It tends to make the selection at random so you have about a 50/50 chance of killing the page you are linking to in google and taking it's place in the google standings. This is known as a google redirect hijack. I'm sure google will fix this eventually but that is how it works now.<br /><br />Lee<!--content-->
Greetings again,<br /><br />Thanx for all the input. Greatly appreciated and helpful.<br /><br />I had a look at a few programs on the www and have installed Fm Click Tracker that runs thru the cgi-bin (hope that makes sense). It can be found <a href="http://www.focalmedia.net/clicktracker.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />If you track thru their site you can find some other cool add-ons.<br /><br />One point that was brought up here was indexing by search engines. With what I have done, will I be at a disadvantage with search engines now?<br /><br />Regards and good night, Wayne in Japan <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":notworthy:" border="0" alt="notworthy.gif" /><!--content-->
<!--QuoteBegin-waynemac+Apr 14 2005, 01:43 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(waynemac @ Apr 14 2005, 01:43 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Greetings again,<br /><br />Thanx for all the input. Greatly appreciated and helpful.<br /><br />I had a look at a few programs on the www and have installed Fm Click Tracker that runs thru the cgi-bin (hope that makes sense). It can be found <a href="http://www.focalmedia.net/clicktracker.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=124740"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Just for the fun of it..<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thehomeforums.com/members/pendragon/goto.zip" target="_blank">http://www.thehomeforums.com/members/pendragon/goto.zip</a><br /><br />Only needs perl, very simple and straightforward. just add the urls you want to allow to click through to the txt file.. cgi has a few variables to set, just open both in a plain text editor and you should be able to figure it out.<!--content-->
It's not a script, but I use <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mybloglog.com">www.mybloglog.com</a><!-- w --> with pretty decent success. They've got a free service and a pay service. The free stats are good enough for me. Might be worth a look for you, as it doesn't use redirection.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mybloglog.com" target="_blank">http://www.mybloglog.com</a><!--content-->
h34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" /><!--content-->Hi ya all, I see AwStats shows clicks to my site but what about clicks out?<br /><br />I want to know how many clicks a link on my site is getting.<br /><br />Maybe there is something I cant find in CPanel or maybe someone knows a handy little script that could be installed.<br /><br />Any info appreciated.<br /><br />Regards, Wayne <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
h34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" /><!--content-->Wayne, there is no need to double post. I have merged the two topics.<br /><br />From the forum guidelines.<br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->o Family Members may not create duplicate threads (cross-posting).<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--content-->
There is nothing in CPanel that will do what you're asking.<br /><br />When you click on an ordinary link, the user's browser contacts the linked site directly, so your site will never see anything to capture or count.<br /><br />The only thing I can think of that you could use to do this is a redirection script. All of the links on your site would be changed to point at the redirection script instead of the target site. For example, if you had a link like this on one of your pages:<br /><!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1--><a href=http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/"http://www.example.com">Some nifty site</a><!--c2--></div><!--ec2--><br />...you would construct the link to use the redirection script instead:<br /><!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1--><a href=http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/"http://www.your-TCH-site.com/redir.php?site=http://www.example.com">Some nifty site</a><!--c2--></div><!--ec2--><br />With a setup such as this, it is trivial for the redirection script to keep track of the number of times various links in your site are being clicked on, since it sees each link when it is clicked.<br /><br />Redirection scripts do have a couple of downsides that I'm aware of:<br /><br />1) Google will not pass on any page rank to any page that you have linked through a redirection script on your site. (All of your links will technically point at your site - either internal links or links to your redirection script.)<br /><br />2) If the redirection script is not written properly (securely), it can be possible for a mailicous spammer to redirect their own links through your site, letting them spam all they wish and making it appear that *you* are the spammer.<br /><br />I don't personally know of any such redirect scripts, but I wouldn't think they'd be hard to find.<!--content-->
<!--QuoteBegin-waynemac+Apr 14 2005, 09:27 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(waynemac @ Apr 14 2005, 09:27 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi ya all, I see AwStats shows clicks to my site but what about clicks out?<br /><br />I want to know how many clicks a link on my site is getting.<br /><br />Maybe there is something I cant find in CPanel or maybe someone knows a handy little script that could be installed.<br /><br />Any info appreciated.<br /><br />Regards, Wayne <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
h34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" /><br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=124705"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Instead of using the actual link to the site, use a redirect.<br />Something as simply as an html page that contains a refresh with the actual url to.<br />Then you can see the hits on that html page.<br /><br />Or maybe a script that you pass a url to, and it creates the redirector.<br /><br />Shouldn't be too hard to write I wouldn't think.<br /><br />If no one else comes up with something, I'll whip something up this afternoon for you in perl/cgi<!--content--><!--QuoteBegin-TCH-David+Apr 14 2005, 08:04 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TCH-David @ Apr 14 2005, 08:04 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Redirection scripts do have a couple of downsides that I'm aware of:<br /><br />1) Google will not pass on any page rank to any page that you have linked through a redirection script on your site. (All of your links will technically point at your site - either internal links or links to your redirection script.)<br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=124710"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Actually there is a tad more to the problem. The googlebot sees the two links, the original page and your redirect link, as two seperate pages with identical information, so it deletes one of those pages from it's database. It tends to make the selection at random so you have about a 50/50 chance of killing the page you are linking to in google and taking it's place in the google standings. This is known as a google redirect hijack. I'm sure google will fix this eventually but that is how it works now.<br /><br />Lee<!--content-->
Greetings again,<br /><br />Thanx for all the input. Greatly appreciated and helpful.<br /><br />I had a look at a few programs on the www and have installed Fm Click Tracker that runs thru the cgi-bin (hope that makes sense). It can be found <a href="http://www.focalmedia.net/clicktracker.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />If you track thru their site you can find some other cool add-ons.<br /><br />One point that was brought up here was indexing by search engines. With what I have done, will I be at a disadvantage with search engines now?<br /><br />Regards and good night, Wayne in Japan <img src="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":notworthy:" border="0" alt="notworthy.gif" /><!--content-->
<!--QuoteBegin-waynemac+Apr 14 2005, 01:43 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(waynemac @ Apr 14 2005, 01:43 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Greetings again,<br /><br />Thanx for all the input. Greatly appreciated and helpful.<br /><br />I had a look at a few programs on the www and have installed Fm Click Tracker that runs thru the cgi-bin (hope that makes sense). It can be found <a href="http://www.focalmedia.net/clicktracker.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><div align="right"><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=124740"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Just for the fun of it..<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thehomeforums.com/members/pendragon/goto.zip" target="_blank">http://www.thehomeforums.com/members/pendragon/goto.zip</a><br /><br />Only needs perl, very simple and straightforward. just add the urls you want to allow to click through to the txt file.. cgi has a few variables to set, just open both in a plain text editor and you should be able to figure it out.<!--content-->
It's not a script, but I use <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mybloglog.com">www.mybloglog.com</a><!-- w --> with pretty decent success. They've got a free service and a pay service. The free stats are good enough for me. Might be worth a look for you, as it doesn't use redirection.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mybloglog.com" target="_blank">http://www.mybloglog.com</a><!--content-->