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Drew Black

Posted 23/02/2006 14:56:38

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Group: Customers
Last Login: 15/06/2006 15:30:05
Posts: 19, Visits: 95

I'd like to see an option for tracking outbound traffic from forum posts. When a user embeds a [url=][/url] and it's destination is a different domain I'd like to force those links through a traffic redirector page to capture the click.

In my current forum I do this through a click.asp page that 301 redirects and records the URL to the database.

This redirection scheme has the added bonus of not passing on PageRank if that's desirable for your forum.

Post #10152

Rescendent

Posted 27/02/2006 08:33:18

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Last Login: 02/01/2007 12:46:48
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In the admin in the IFCode section you change change what the [url] coverts to. You could add an onclick event to the anchor, a nofollow tag or pass the url as a parameter to a redirecting url... It just depends which way you want to go.

Hope this helps

Jeremy Hopkin
The Wine Community Forums for Champagne Reviews

Post #10191

Rescendent

Posted 27/02/2006 08:41:18

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I'm guessing here, but I think in the Admin CP, under manage IFCode, you want to edit the Hyperlink tag and change the replace pattern to something like:

And the Hyperlink & description tag to something like

Depending on how your click.asp page works and where it is relative to the forum. You could get a bit funkier with the search patterns if you want to detect if its an external link, but be careful if you are not sure about regular expressions.

Jeremy Hopkin
The Wine Community Forums for Champagne Reviews

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Drew Black

Posted 27/02/2006 11:03:19

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That's a great idea. I'll give it a shot.

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