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Hi

For the past few years, we have been using ATX across our network of sites. Not sure if you are aware but ATX seems to have disappeared (not answering any support tickets, emails or even phone calls). To make matters worse, his license renewal system has stopped working so everybody using ATX is on a countdown until their annual license runs out.

Anyway, one problem we always had with ATX was how it measured productivity

The only way for ATX to measure productivity is by counting how many times the user clicks on the out script (eg /te3/out.php?s=70&u=http://www.google.com/ ) which means you have to add the out.php bit to every single link on your site. We have over 100,000 pages on our site ( http://www.tacamateurs.com) and we have spent years fine tuning our link structure to maximize our search engine traffic. Adding the out.php to every link would seriously mess up our ranking.

We could easily add your remote tracking script to each page (as almost all of our pages are dynamic) but can TE use that to measure productivity instead of out.php ? (ie. count how many times the user loads in.php. That way you could tell how many pages the user has visited and therefore how productive the traffic is)

Hope that makes sense

Thanks

Hi there,

i've checked out your web site. Well, you will still need to use out.php if u would like to count clicks. Productivity is ratio between incomings raws and clicks, so yes clicks are required for that.
You're more than welcome to jump over to TE3 and if i may help somehow let me know, you can also contact me on ICQ 242240240.

best regards,
Jim

Hi Jim

Thanks for getting back to me. I guess I figured thats how you measured clicks as it seems to be the same with every traffic trade script ive looked at. Im sure if there was a less intrusive way of doing it (like I described), then a lot of the bigger and more established sites would be interested as it wouldnt affect their SEO stuff. Perhaps a feature for the next release

Anyway, still interested in your product though. We just have to restrict the click counting to external links only as we do now with ATX

Cant seem to get into your demo though. Username Demo, pass Demo at http://demo1.tradeexpert.net/te3/ doesnt seem to work

Thanks

Adrian

PS. Had several other big ATX users contacting me recently, looking for a replacement. Just a thought but if I was in your shoes then I might think about running some kind of google campaign to try and pick up all these stranded ATX users

Hi

I will surely think about what can be done in that regard. Perhaps we should chat live on ICQ 242240240 and exchange some ideas.

Regarding demo user and pass, you enter lower case letters ( demo / demo).

kind regards,
Jim

tacnet69 wrote: ... counting how many times the user clicks on the out script (eg /te3/out.php?s=70&u=http://www.google.com/ ) which means you have to add the out.php bit to every single link on your site. ... we have spent years fine tuning our link structure to maximize our search engine traffic. Adding the out.php to every link would seriously mess up our ranking.

Yes, I totally agree and like this. A great thing this would be. I remember the old Raptor using this method. There was an alternative out ?id= method and then just the normal link without extended calls.