FP 2000 and Forms Processing (which banner add did a visitor click thru from)

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Edwin Hannan

Hi all..new to the web design stuff..please be gentle:-)

Is it possible to track from where a visitor has specifically clicked thru
from to a site?

Is there some id tag that is sent alomng in the customers browser that can
be saved on a page hit? and sent along with a form when submitted?

If I have several banner adds how do I know whats going on at my site?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice

Thanks

Ed
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi all..
Howdy.

new to the web design stuff..please be gentle:-)

Is it possible to track from where a visitor has
specifically clicked thru from to a site?

Is there some id tag that is sent alomng in the customers
browser that can be saved on a page hit? and sent along
with a form when submitted?
Click to expand...

Yes, there's an HTTP Header named HTTP_REFERER that
contains the URL of the page containing the hyperlink that
the visitor clicked.

Most Web server logs files record this information for
every requrest, and most Web site statistics packages
produce reports that include it.
If I have several banner adds how do I know whats going
on at my site?
Click to expand...

You'll need to be more specific about the information you
want to track. For example, are these banner ads on your
site or on other sites that point to yours?

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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Jim

Thanks for your help.

The Banner Ads will be on other sites pointing to my site.

So can this HTTP_REFERER attribute be logged by some javascirpt in the page
or is it better to use the web stats from the isp?

Cheers

Ed

PS I have one of your books ' Running MS FP2000' if the answer to my
question in there then I apologise for not looking hard enough:-)
 
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