Any time you use a URL in an Article, Web Page, Classified Ad, Pay Per Click ad or anyplace else you should always use Ad = Tracking Links. Not only will this Article show you how to build your own Ad-Tracker in 2 simple steps it will also tells you 7 reasons why you should always use Ad-Trackers
Building a Tracking Link is as Simple as using a Free Web Site Counter with a Meta Tag Refresh Link.
For a Sample how to do this Visit http://www.ewguru.com/hbiz/sample-Ad-Tracker.html
The Redirect part of the Code takes place in the lines Between the Head and /head statements. This Page is redirected to Google. Just change http://www.google.com to point to any URL you want re-direct too.
The Tracking Code Appears between the Body and /body tags. You would put in the Java Script code for your Web Counter here. Sitemeter offers a free Web Counter that has some very nice features and has been tested to work with this method. http://sitemeter.com Any Java Script Type Web Counter should work with this Method.
Here are 7 reasons why you should always use Ad-Tracking URLS
You Build a Page called http://the-Redirect and Point it to http://main-Redirect (don't place Java Web Counter code on this Page)
You now Point all you other Redirects to http://the-Redirect s0 http://the-Redirect1, http://the-Redirect2 ...(with Java Web Counting Code ) are all pointing at http://the-Redirect. Now if the URL of http://main-Redirect1 changes you change http://the-Redirect to point to http://main-Redirect1 and all the URLS that point to http://the-Redirect should still work with no change.
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