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[Charente]

We run a portal site with advertisers paying to appear. We want to have an advert that has two hyperlinks to a second article on a different area of our site with more information on the advertiser, plus on the same advert there will be a link under a graphic to send visitors to their site. How do I code the links to track how many people go to the article and how many exit to their web page?
Thanks

[otsupport]

Hello Charente,


Thank you for posting and for your question.

I'll start by saying that coding links is always a very good idea. Opentracker functions primarily through the use of URLs, meaning that any customised url can be easily researched in the system. You can order your reporting by URL, page title, or both.

Monitoring external links is very straight-forward in the reporting system. Opentracker records every instance of a visitor following an exit link from your site to an external domain, and reports this information in several places.

One place is called Top Exit Lists. There is a distinction made between Top Exit Links (3rd party) and Top Exit Pages.

You can also view this information in the report called Visitors - Exiting.



Internally, you will be able to see how many people view any specific page with the Most Popular Pages report.

There is a helpful report called Top Files & Directories which you can use to see how your site is navigated, according to how your site is built. So, in this report you will be able to see how many people visited that different area of your site, where more information is presented about your advertisers.

We have recently built a Content Grouping feature which should go online in the coming months as well. We'll see about how this might help you in researching the data that you are looking for.

In the future we will make individual page reporting available, which will make this process easier.







Please read through this information, take a look at your reports, and post again for clarifications, with examples, etc. Perhaps we've not fully answered the question, so ask again!

[otsupport]

Does your product have the ability to count links leaving my site? I’m a wholesaler and I have several links to companies selling my product in online retail sites. I want to keep track of how many times my website links to their sites.

[otsupport]

While we can show you how many time the links leading from your site to another domain are clicked, we cannot tell you how many links there are on your site. We only register the exit links when they are clicked on.

You can see the report itself in our demo, it is under Top Navigation Lists, called Top Exit Links. Using the calendar you can set this to any date range that you require. There is also a report called Top Exit Pages, that tells you from which page in your website most people are leaving your site.