LL Owners - Is This Ok?

[Halfdeck]

Originally Posted by PhoenixBlue

I want to track how many clicks each of my freesites generates from the different LLs I submit to. The only way I can do this is to assign each freesite an ID and each LL an ID and have that in the URL I submit.

It's not the only way.

If you really want to track incoming hits from LL, put a php script on top of the index.html page that parses domain name from the referrer info and record the url/domain name combo in mysql.

But from having done it, I can say you will probably stop looking at the stats after a while.

[PhoenixBlue]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

It's not the only way.

If you really want to track incoming hits from LL, put a php script on top of the index.html page that parses domain name from the referrer info and record the url/domain name combo in mysql.

Referrer is not dependable:
'HTTP_REFERER'

The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set this, and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In short, it cannot really be trusted.

[Halfdeck]

Originally Posted by PhoenixBlue

Referrer is not dependable:
'HTTP_REFERER'

If you're looking to count every single incoming click, you might not like using http_referer but for most clicktracking it's more than enough.