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Searches and Click Tracking

 
 


jferry
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Aug 30, 2002, 1:34 PM

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Searches and Click Tracking Can't Post
A few questions.

1. How can we find out the words/phrases people use at our site when using the search?

2. Can you suggest a click tracking script, or software program, that will record the click through count on articles we post to our site using the Internet URL: option?

Thanks,

jferry

www.circuitnet.com


dlo_itools
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Sep 3, 2002, 11:46 AM

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Re: [jferry] Searches and Click Tracking [In reply to] Can't Post
Article Manager comes with a basic search facility. For a more full-featured search, including logging of keywords, you can take a look at our Search Engine product. http://www.interactivetools.com/products/searchengine/

For very simple click tracking, you can use this Perl script

Code
#!/usr/bin/perl 
# go.cgi - redirect user and generate apache log entry 
my $url = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; 
if (!$url || $url =~ /go.cgi/si) { 
  $url = "http://www.yoursite.com/";  
} 
  
binmode(STDOUT); 
print "Location: $url\r\n\r\n"; 
exit;

Save this script as go.cgi in your cgi directory. Then change your tracked links to look like

http://www.yoursite.com/cgi/go.cgi?http://www.track this.link.com/

Then its a simple matter Wink of finding/programming a script to look for "go.cgi" in your logs and report on the stats.
/Dave Lo