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RE: External traffic tracker/redirector

Drew Black — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:03:19 GMT

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

RE: External traffic tracker/redirector

Rescendent — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:41:18 GMT

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.

RE: External traffic tracker/redirector

Rescendent — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:33:18 GMT

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

External traffic tracker/redirector

Drew Black — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:56:38 GMT

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.