scriptygoddess

As many bloggers would agree, one of the things that keeps you going is to know that readers find your posts valuable. But often there are those days when you make a great post with lots of links and you get no comments at all.

Did anyone read your posts? Did anyone even click on the links? Who knows?!?

So I went in search of a "Click Tracker" script. Since I don't know beans about coding, I had to settle for what I could find that was A) a cinch to set up, B) free and C) easy to use.

What I wound up using is this snazzy little cgi script called Aardvard Click Manager (and yes, I am using it on this post).

This script is very easy to install. Everything you need to know is in the ReadMe.

Cool Features:
* All links are ranked on your stats page.
* Tracking is started when you create a link, no admin panel needed.
* Can track clicks on downloads as well as scripts.
* Stats can be sorted by Clicks, ID or URL.
* You can use a shortened url to pass your link, which hides the actual url.
* By usings SSI, you can include how many times a link was clicked beside the link.
* Stats can be password protected.

Jeremy Scheff did a great job on this script, and has some other nice tools on his site so be sure to explore while you are there.

It would be nice if it were in php and MySQL, but you would lose a lot of the simplicity in the set-up. If you know of more advanced "Click Trackers" be sure to post it here.