Tracking Links

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Is there any way in Frontpage 2003 to track whom clicks are what links?
Example: There is a paypal link on my site so people can send money, I
would like to know how many people are clicking on this link.
Thanks
 
No, unless the host supports the FP server stat function or your host gives you access to the server
log files for your account.

Can't you tell this by the number of payments you receive?
If people are not going to pay you, why would they click on the link?

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Basically I want to know if they are going to paypal. If people click on
the link and decide not to pay the price shown, then I know that most likly
the price is too high, without asking the visitor if the price is to high.
 
why not set up an intermediary page that has a counter and automatic
forwarding on it (maybe you could put a thankyou and forwarding you now on
it).

there s probably a better way, just a suggestion.

Cheers,
Dean
 
If you are trying to track links that go to places outside your web site,
then you cannot do this directly by FP or your web server. Since these links
go directly to another site (such as paypal.com) they don't talk to your
server first and thus, the hit isn't recorded. You would have to use an
intermediary page first. This page would take a parameter that has the value
of the page you are trying to send the user to (such as
go.aspx?to=www.thatsite.com). Then this script (let's call it go.aspx) would
record that someone tried to go to the link passed in the to parameter
(to=www.thatsite.com) and store that information into a database of some
sort. Of course, this takes a bit of work and can be rather tricky to manage
unless you have experience at it.

Now, if the page first goes to another page on your site (such as the
instructions for your viewers on how to donate through paypal) then your
host would register this page in the server logs. Then you would just have
to go through the server logs (if your host makes them available for you)
and count how many times this page was hit. Of course, this doesn't tell how
many may have clicked on the donate through paypal button, but may provide
some data to start with.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
Thanks, I already have some codethat tracks links, but it just does not
work with paypal, it seems as if paypal needs to pass information to there
page.
PayPal Code Bellow:
"<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"
target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<center><input type="image"
src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0"
name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"
height="40" width="73"></center>
<input type="hidden" name="encrypted" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----"LOTS OF
LETTER & SYMBOLS ARE HERE"-----END PKCS7-----">
</form>"
 
That is what it looks like. I would probably put a paypal
link to some sort of disclaimer page, with paypals link on
the end. You could track the disclaimer page at least, but
it's better than nothing

JoeM wrote:
: Thanks, I already have some codethat tracks links, but
: it just does not work with paypal, it seems as if paypal
: needs to pass information to there page.
: PayPal Code Bellow:
: "<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"
: method="post" target="_blank">
: <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
: <center><input type="image"
:
src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif"
: border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal -
: it's fast, free and secure!" height="40"
: width="73"></center> <input type="hidden"
: name="encrypted" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----"LOTS OF
: LETTER & SYMBOLS ARE HERE"-----END PKCS7-----"> </form>"
:
:
: :: If you are trying to track links that go to places
:: outside your web site, then you cannot do this directly
:: by FP or your web server. Since these links go directly
:: to another site (such as paypal.com) they don't talk to
:: your server first and thus, the hit isn't recorded. You
:: would have to use an intermediary page first. This page
:: would take a parameter that has the value of the page
:: you are trying to send the user to (such as
:: go.aspx?to=www.thatsite.com). Then this script (let's
:: call it go.aspx) would record that someone tried to go
:: to the link passed in the to parameter
:: (to=www.thatsite.com) and store that information into a
:: database of some sort. Of course, this takes a bit of
:: work and can be rather tricky to manage unless you have
:: experience at it.
::
:: Now, if the page first goes to another page on your site
:: (such as the instructions for your viewers on how to
:: donate through paypal) then your host would register
:: this page in the server logs. Then you would just have
:: to go through the server logs (if your host makes them
:: available for you) and count how many times this page
:: was hit. Of course, this doesn't tell how many may have
:: clicked on the donate through paypal button, but may
:: provide some data to start with.
::
:: Hope this helps,
:: Mark Fitzpatrick
:: Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
::
:: ::: Is there any way in Frontpage 2003 to track whom clicks
::: are what links? Example: There is a paypal link on my
::: site so people can send money, I would like to know how
::: many people are clicking on this link.
::: Thanks
 
True, will do thanks for your help

Mike Mueller said:
That is what it looks like. I would probably put a paypal
link to some sort of disclaimer page, with paypals link on
the end. You could track the disclaimer page at least, but
it's better than nothing

JoeM wrote:
: Thanks, I already have some codethat tracks links, but
: it just does not work with paypal, it seems as if paypal
: needs to pass information to there page.
: PayPal Code Bellow:
: "<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"
: method="post" target="_blank">
: <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
: <center><input type="image"
:
src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif"
: border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal -
: it's fast, free and secure!" height="40"
: width="73"></center> <input type="hidden"
: name="encrypted" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----"LOTS OF
: LETTER & SYMBOLS ARE HERE"-----END PKCS7-----"> </form>"
:
:
: :: If you are trying to track links that go to places
:: outside your web site, then you cannot do this directly
:: by FP or your web server. Since these links go directly
:: to another site (such as paypal.com) they don't talk to
:: your server first and thus, the hit isn't recorded. You
:: would have to use an intermediary page first. This page
:: would take a parameter that has the value of the page
:: you are trying to send the user to (such as
:: go.aspx?to=www.thatsite.com). Then this script (let's
:: call it go.aspx) would record that someone tried to go
:: to the link passed in the to parameter
:: (to=www.thatsite.com) and store that information into a
:: database of some sort. Of course, this takes a bit of
:: work and can be rather tricky to manage unless you have
:: experience at it.
::
:: Now, if the page first goes to another page on your site
:: (such as the instructions for your viewers on how to
:: donate through paypal) then your host would register
:: this page in the server logs. Then you would just have
:: to go through the server logs (if your host makes them
:: available for you) and count how many times this page
:: was hit. Of course, this doesn't tell how many may have
:: clicked on the donate through paypal button, but may
:: provide some data to start with.
::
:: Hope this helps,
:: Mark Fitzpatrick
:: Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
::
:: ::: Is there any way in Frontpage 2003 to track whom clicks
::: are what links? Example: There is a paypal link on my
::: site so people can send money, I would like to know how
::: many people are clicking on this link.
::: Thanks
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