Hi everyone,
Thanks for the help. I ended up using Chris's example. It didn't work
at first so I changed the code. Here is the finished jQuery code in
case anyone is interested :
$(document).ready(function() {
$("a.adtrack").click(function(){
//Get url of image advert
var adURL = $("a.adtrack").attr("href");
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "adtrackingpage.asp",
data: "advertURL=" + adURL
});
});
});
On the tracking page, I used the following ASP VBScript :
<%
' IIf implementation
Function MM_IIf(condition, ifTrue, ifFalse)
If condition = "" Then
MM_IIf = ifFalse
Else
MM_IIf = ifTrue
End If
End Function
%>
<%
Set Insert = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Command")
Insert.ActiveConnection = MM_Tracking_STRING
Insert.CommandText = "INSERT INTO dbo.adtracker (URL) VALUES (?) "
Insert.Parameters.Append Insert.CreateParameter("varTitle", 200, 1,
50, MM_IIF(Request.Querystring("advertURL"),
Request.Querystring("advertURL"), Insert__varTitle & ""))
Insert.CommandType = 1
Insert.CommandTimeout = 0
Insert.Prepared = true
Insert.Execute()
%>
Works perfectly!
For those that are interested and might have a use for it in future,
one of the most important factors in search engine rankings (at the
moment) is direct inbound links from other websites e.g. (A - B).
People using click tracking usually use a tracking page that sits
between these 2 e.g. (A - C -B). In doing so, the link 'love' isn't
passed on to the target URL. Using the above code, the link is left
inact while tracking still occurs. Sweet!
Thanks!
