Click Tracker
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.
March 6th, 2003 at 12:44 pm
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March 6th, 2003 at 12:53 pm
I will be using this !
March 7th, 2003 at 10:17 pm
Nice find, Promo. You might also like AXS Visitor Tracking System. I don't know if it's more advanced, but it is fun.
March 16th, 2003 at 8:57 am
AXS doesnt seem to give you the possibility to display the no. of times viewed back on your webpages. Aardvark does (SSI)
April 4th, 2003 at 3:37 pm
So I was on Promoguy's site earlier and I noticed a click manager code when I moused over a link. I quickly realized what it meant and hopped on over
June 11th, 2003 at 4:44 am
Leidsin miskise väikese jubina, mis loeb kokku, kui palju su kodukal mingitel linkidel klikitud on. Noh näiteks ma näeks ära, et mitu korda siit on mindud minu India reisikirja lugema. Aga ma ei viitsi seda käima panna endal
November 6th, 2003 at 9:06 am
Looks like promoguy's link thingy got reset - because it no longer points to the script… I google'd it and found it here:
http://www.aardvarkind.com/index.php?page=other
January 30th, 2004 at 8:35 pm
Thank-you so much for this post.
http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?s=57ecf45eb618547e888ae20992b36189&act=ST&f=14&t=34876&st=0&#entry156636
February 20th, 2004 at 11:42 am
Is it a Aardvard Click Manager, promoguy? I guess there is a typo.
September 18th, 2004 at 9:16 pm