[ciapug] Logging outgoing traffic while being crawler friendly

[David Champion]

Could you maybe do something with either rewrite, or some kind of error 
handling, and make the link like:

<a href="go/www.ames.ia.us">Go to the City of Ames site</a>

...then your magic thingy looks for anything after "go/" and redirects.

-dc

Claus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a php redirect page that I use to redirect outgoing links 
> through.  That way I can keep track of what links people use from my 
> site.  Things work great with the exception that search engines / 
> crawlers don't account these links.  So for instance the link to 
> /go.php?http://www.ames.ia.us will never get put into the "Find web 
> pages that link to www.ames.ia.us" list of google.  That's because it 
> doesn't appear as a link.
> 
> Is there another way that could do both, track outgoing links and be 
> crawler friendly?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Claus
> 
> ----Link----
> <A HREF="/go.php?http://www.ames.ia.us"
>  onMouseOver="window.status='http://www.ames.ia.us'; return true"
>  onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true">
>  Ames City Government</A>
> 
> ----Redirection/Logging Page----
> <?php
>   $link = getenv('QUERY_STRING');
> 
>   if ($REMOTE_ADDR != 'insert my ip here' &&
>       $REMOTE_ADDR != 'insert my other ip here') {
>     require_once('DB.php');
>     $db = DB::connect('pgsql://www@unix+localhost/database');
>     if (DB::isError($db)) {die ($db->getMessage());}
> 
>     $result = $db->query("insert into web_stats_links_visited 
> (timestamp, server
> _name, remote_ip, remote_name, url) values (current_timestamp, 
> '$SERVER_NAME', '
> $REMOTE_ADDR', ' ', '$link')");
>     if (DB::isError($result)) {die ($result->getMessage());}
>     $db->disconnect();
>   }
> 
>   header("Location: " . $link);
>   exit;
> ?>
> 
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