Ad management and tracking?

7 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: July 11, 2011   (RSS)

By NigelGordijk - July 8, 2011

Does anyone know of a way to track clickthroughs on an ad that is edited/updated via CMSB?

Thanks!
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
Tel: 001 519 342 5348 | Web: www.commonsensedesign.net

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By Toledoh - July 9, 2011

Hi Nigel,

Are you able to control the link from, or only the link to?

If you can indetify the link, have a look at: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578

This will give you the ability to track via google analytics.
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By Toledoh - July 9, 2011

You may need to look into http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/detail.php?Report-Builder-1043 This way, you could build the report in the admin and have various users be able to it/them.

Outside of my scope though... maybe consulting.
Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By robin - July 11, 2011

Hey Nigel,

I've seen clients setup their ads/social media links by having them go to an intermediate page like "outbound.php" that tracks their click and then forwards them along.

Hope that helps,
Robin
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com

Re: [robin] Ad management and tracking?

By NigelGordijk - July 11, 2011

Would I need to have a separate page for each ad, to track specific page traffic? e.g. outboundAd1.php, outboundAd2.php.
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
Tel: 001 519 342 5348 | Web: www.commonsensedesign.net

Re: [NigelGordijk] Ad management and tracking?

By robin - July 11, 2011

Hey Nigel,

You could num of your ad to the outbound page, then process it accordingly. So the link might look like: outbound.php?ad=5. Then you only need one page to handle ad counting.

Hope that helps,
Robin
Robin
Programmer
interactivetools.com