Tracking outbound links

[kthull]

I did a search here and came up empty: Is anyone on here tracking their outbound links? If so, what are you using?

I would like a way to measure the amount of traffic I am generating for other sites.

Thanks!

[jimbo]

I use a simple php script to track outbound links. They look like ../click.php?to=http://www.destinationunkown.com/

It uses MySQL on the back end and either inserts or updates the count based on whether or not the link exists already.

It's about 5 lines of code, and really works well. I'll post it here if anyone's interested.

-jim

[Andilinks]

Is there a way without MySQL support on the back end? I've always dismissed it as too difficult, but it would be an interesting feature if it didn't require too much overhead.

Andi

[dank]

There are a variety of flat file-based hit counting scripts out there, such as Gossamer Threads' Links (not SQL) and LnkinLite.

Dan