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Banner Advertising?

Suppose I posted a banner advertisement on a web site and want to know some info about who is visting and how many are there on that banner specifically (not the number of visitors on the page as a whole). Is there any asp.net code with vb.net to do this job and where I can find it?

Posted in Banner advertising

• Hybrin says:

  January 30, 2009 at 2:37 am

  I'm not sure about asp or vb, but with the almighty PHP, simply check log the visitors referring agent.
  $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],

  You could also give the banner a special URL that passes a variable like the following:
  http://yoursite.com/?trackVar=bannerAd1

  if($_GET[trackVar]=='bannerAd1'){
  // store the info to your database here.
  }

  Or for a more complex way of tracking the page loads on the site that hosts the banner, you could reference a php script on your server that generates the banner image as well as logs the banner load.

  $database = 'dbName';
  $dbServer = 'localhost';
  $userName = 'loginName';
  $passWord = 'password';
  $conn = mysql_select_db("$database", mysql_connect("$dbServer", "$userName", "$passWord"));
  header("Content-type: image/png");

  $date = date('Y-m-d');

  $im = imagecreatefrompng("bannerImage.png");
  $orange = imagecolorallocate($im, 51, 102, 204);
  $px = (imagesx($im) – 5 * strlen($date)) / 2;
  imagestring($im, 1, $px, 4, $date, $orange);
  imagepng($im);
  imagedestroy($im);
  // Get Email From DB

  $update = mysql_query("UPDATE '");
  }

  As you can see, there are a number of ways to accomplish this. It all just depends on how complex you want to make it, and what all you want to track.

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