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Charley Kyd
I'm trying to find some way to monitor the traffic that flows through my
links to external sites.
In Google Groups, I found a 1999 message that explained how to do this with
asp. Briefly, the author said to create a page named something like
redir.asp, which has the html between the two lines below:
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<% 'Clickthrough logger / by RGamberg- 808hi.com
response.buffer = true %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Redirector</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
strurl = request.querystring()
response.clear
response.redirect strurl
%>
</body>
</html>
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To use this page, he said, we use a link like the following, where
exceluser.com is my site:
http://exceluser.com/redir.asp?http://microsoft.com
I assume that by redirecting traffic through redir.asp we can track external
links. I'm not sure of the mechanism, however.
Unfortunately, I can't get the redirection to work. Instead, Internet
Explorer opens a blank page that's named after that full link.
Three questions:
1. Can you explain the tracking mechanism that this method supports? What's
suppose to happen?
2. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
3. Can you suggest an improved approach that would work?
Thanks.
Charley Kyd
links to external sites.
In Google Groups, I found a 1999 message that explained how to do this with
asp. Briefly, the author said to create a page named something like
redir.asp, which has the html between the two lines below:
-----------
<% 'Clickthrough logger / by RGamberg- 808hi.com
response.buffer = true %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Redirector</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
strurl = request.querystring()
response.clear
response.redirect strurl
%>
</body>
</html>
-------------
To use this page, he said, we use a link like the following, where
exceluser.com is my site:
http://exceluser.com/redir.asp?http://microsoft.com
I assume that by redirecting traffic through redir.asp we can track external
links. I'm not sure of the mechanism, however.
Unfortunately, I can't get the redirection to work. Instead, Internet
Explorer opens a blank page that's named after that full link.
Three questions:
1. Can you explain the tracking mechanism that this method supports? What's
suppose to happen?
2. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
3. Can you suggest an improved approach that would work?
Thanks.
Charley Kyd