We have a few “sponsor” images on our site which link to our.. well, sponsors!
Source
<a href="http://www.amazon-below-water.com/" target="_blank" alt="Amazon Below Water"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/BelowWater.png" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.pieraquatics.com/" target="_blank" alt="Pier Aquatics"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/PierAquatics.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<a href="#" target="_blank" alt="Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/IEF.png" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.amazonasmagazine.com/" target="_blank" alt="Amazonas Magazine"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/sponsor1.png" alt="" /></a>
What I’d like, ideally, is a plugin which can track the hits on these images; i.e. to show me that 170 clicks have been made on all of our sponsors; 34 on the Amazonas. Obviously it doesn’t need to be this specific, and I guess the plugin would have to set these images up in the first place. That’s all fine.
Thanks in advance,
AdRotate allows you to track clicks on as many ads as you want to set up.
It also allows advertisers to have a special log in so that they may check their own statistics or even update their own ads if you want to give them that power.
It’s a pretty robust system with decent support and some cool features planned on the horizon (from what the developer told me when I asked him a question about better integration with theme development).
Note: If AdRotate is too robust for your needs, this could be implemented on your own through some Ajax calls when a user clicks on an div with a specific class. These clicks could be saved in a table or via options. But, honestly, AdRotate does it so well that I haven’t seen the need to reinvent the wheel.