Suggestions For Redirect Scripts?

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#1

I want to move to where most of my outbound links go through a redirect script that’s blocked by robots.txt. Can anyone suggest a good place to start? I could just build a huge If, ElseIf statement in a PHP file, but I’m wondering whether there’s something that’s more elegant and powerful…

#2

Re: Suggestions For Redirect Scripts?

The other post on calculating your own conversion ratios got me thinking I should think bigger - something that tracked outbound clicks would be even better than something that only centralized redirects - especially if I could fire a Google Analytics event to get it into my analytics reports…

#3

Re: Suggestions For Redirect Scripts?

It sounds a bit like you need a link script of some kind, the problem will always be to integrate that with what you already have.

I would have a look at these listings for example:

Click tracking:
http://www.hotscripts.com/CGI_and_Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Click_Tracking/index.html

Link indexing:
http://www.hotscripts.com/CGI_and_Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Link_Indexing/index.html

I think your thought about click tracking is a good one, often a click tracking script can or will hide the real URL. Which is a bit what the link scripts I use also do (other than organizing links).