Do you log outbound clicks?
 

Hello. First post. New to the board and the industry.

I'm wondering what kinds of tools webmasters are using to log outbound clicks for the purpose of auditing affiliate programs. Have you ever had need to do this?

Do you use anything beyond events via Google Analytics? Have you ever had to reconcile with an affiliate program?

Thanks. Still learning my way around.

In the interest of getting a conversation going around this I'll share how I do it.

My environment is PHP and I use two logging methods for all clicks. Google Analytics and my own logs based on Redis, Elasticsearch and LogStash. All my sites require javascript so that is part of the method.

The following PHP page can be included in most environments. You simply need to wire the saving of the click to your own data store.

The modification for the Google Analytics is extremely helpful. All outbound clicks will show up in your GA as an Action that looks like this:

click - www gfy com, (full URL they went to here)

It's on pastebin dot com / TSdLAGvu

Enjoy.

If any other webmasters are interested in comparing notes please contact me.

Welcome to GFY.

google analytics can do that

need to integrate into GA, but been lazy, will check the code out .. thanks for the share

Please do it. you may be surprised what you find. And if you want to discuss individual programs please contact me.

Hi and welcome

I use YOURLS to count outbound clicks