ONLINE-ADS>> monitoring click through service

Soulmates (webmaster_at_soulmates.w1.com)
Thu, 10 Apr 1997 18:19:35 -0400

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This post is in regards to a question from Thursday's Online-Ads Discussion
List:

The best way to monitor click through service is to make a copy of your
entrance page, rename it something different (i call mine index1.html,
index2.html, and so on..) and use this renamed page as the entrance to your
web site for the banner swap service you want to monitor. Then get a
commercial counter (they run around $25.00 a year) and put it on only that
entrance page.

I have found that this is the best way to track all of the entrances into
my web site. I have 3 counters watching traffic on three entrance pages
from search engines, newsgroups, and banner swaps. And I have another 3
counters on internal pages I want to watch.

I hide the counters so that the user doesn't see the counters. I remove
the hide parameter where I have all six counters visible on a secret page
only I can access on my site.

It's works beautifully and the best thing about it is that I administrate
it so I can make changes and move the counters around as I please, whenever
I need to!

Good Luck!

Steve Marcus
webmaster_at_soulmates.w1.com
http://www.soulmates.w1.com

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