"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9821D2A61C28Ccastleamber@130.133.1.4...
> "Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:
>
>> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9821C5A4B4FA6castleamber@130.133.1.4...
>>> "Peter" <petermcphee@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using the Meta Refresh attribute so I can keep a track of a few
>>>> links that I am affiliated with.
>>>
>>> You mean that you send a visitor to a page that refreshes the visitor
>>> to the affiliate?
>>>
>>> Don't do this.
>>>
>>> Use mod_rewrite to make 301 redirects.
>>
>> John, I can't see why the person would want to do that anyway. If the
>> page is 301'ed or refreshed there doesn't seem to be a way to track
>> right? With affiliates you have to track.
>
> you can decide to 301 redirect
>
> /affiliate/example.com/....
>
> to http://example.com/....
>
> since affiliate is on "your" site, you will see the request, even if
> Apache redirects the visitor away to another site.
>
> Example:
>
> lj601042.inktomisearch.com "GET /messenger HTTP/1.0" 301 235 "-"
> lj601042.inktomisearch.com "GET /messenger/ HTTP/1.0" 200 4488 "-"
>
> slurp gets first /messenger which "doesn't exists", but Apache is
> configured to 301 if it discovers a directory with that name to the
> version with a trailing /.
>
> Couldn't find a more exciting example in a few seconds.
>
> Anyway, loading an access log in TextPad and marking all lines that have
>
> " 301
>
> is a way to find quite some bots :-)

Yeah, but that isn't tracking all the way. The tracking code tracks the
purchase and places a to where it will keep track even sometimes up
to 90 days. I can't see how looking in the stats to watch is keeping good
tracking. A person can only see the visit, but doesn't see what the person
does after leaving the site.

Stacey
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