Tracking exit links?

[CrazyLady]

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Hi guys,

I've set up an new adwords campaign and I am wanting to track conversions. The problem is that google doesn't seem to track exit links? I've masked all my URL's to be /play/opperator-name and the ads are all served in OpenX.

So the real question is, what is the best way to combine google Adwords/Analytics and Open X?

I had been looking at Piwik (open source analytics) thinking that if they are the same company as open x they might have interegrated the two products but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Any ideas??

Thanks,

Vikki

[intelinside]

If it is all about 'exit links' then statcounter.com does give you stats about the exit links. It is free to try but comes with 500 log limit but offers good features.

[futureweb]

You could just create a simple log via your jump script (if you have one) using a database or flat file.

<?
$referrer = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] : '';
$linkid = $_GET['id']; // your links id to forward on
$date_time = date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $phpdate );

  $log_it = "insert into mylinklog(lastpage,link_offer_id,date_and_time) values('".$referrer."',".$linkid.",'".$date_time."')";
 $add_log = mysql_query($log_it);

// your link code here
header("location: ".Your_link_based_on_its_id);
?>

you can of course add in anything else such as keyword the user arrived on ad campaign id etc..