[ciapug] Logging outgoing traffic while being crawler friendly

[Claus]

That doesn't resolve the problem.  The link in the page still doesn't look 
like <a href="http://www.ames.ia.us"> thus doesn't get phrased as a link to 
that site by the crawler.  Instead it's just a link to an imaginary page <a 
href="http://www.mysite.com/go/www.ames.ia.us">.
I doubt the crawlers are designed to actually try out the links to 
determine where they go to.

At 04:46 PM 05/29/2003, David Champion wrote:
>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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