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cjm2671
cjm2671

Reputation: 19496

How do we track clicks on ads served with embedded JavaScript tags?

Some of our advertisers require us to serve their ads from their server using embedded JavaScript tags so that they can track impressions and clicks.

My question is, how do WE track the clicks they have had on their ads, so we can tell how their campaign is going?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1109

Answers (3)

cjm2671
cjm2671

Reputation: 19496

I think the best answer is actually the way OpenX does it. http://www.openx.org/docs/whitepapers/3rd-party-click-tracking

Basically it searches the Javascript for the click the link and replaces it with a bounce (redirect) link that allows it track the click and still deliver the user.

It is slightly inflexible as it depends on the third party tracking code, but it is probably the 'cleanest' solution.

Upvotes: 1

verisimilidude
verisimilidude

Reputation: 736

You could put an invisible layer over the ad and respond to the click by calling Their click after sending you a notice that the ad was clicked (maybe loading a special web bug). This technique is considered evil since it could easily be used to send the user to somewhere other than the advertiser's page.

Upvotes: 0

Run CMD
Run CMD

Reputation: 3035

I think that all depends on the javascript code of the advertiser.

Maybe you can add an "onload" function to your page, where you search the page for images. If the image has the properties of the ad, add an eventlistener for the click event with javascript ... then call a server page with javascript which stores the values in a database ... just a quick idea

Upvotes: 0

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