ok here is whats happening.
I am setting up a new site which will be up in a week or so, and I am offering banner plans like here on WT.

My plans...
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$90/mo. $0.20/click $2/1000 impressions-top ad >>>468x60px

$50/mo. $0.10/click $1/1000 impressions-side ads >>>100x125px,120x90px,125x30px

$60/mo. $0.10/click $1/1000 impressions-bottom ad >>>468x60px
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I have the monthly fee plan which is easy, i just make the people pay the monthly fee. What i need to know is about the Click plan and the CPM plan.

I have a couple questions....

1) How do you know how many impressions are made each month?

2) How do you know how many clicks are made each month?

3) I have software for this, (http://www.ad-rotator.com) but I would prefer a script. Does anyone know of any scripts available that can track how many clicks a banner gets and/or how many impressions it shows?

4) If so, can you please give me the link. I appreciate it much and although im broke and have no money to give, I will owe you a favor when you need one

oh and if you can tell me how my prices are (good, bad), that will also be highly appreciated.
What I am mostly interested though is in a script that will provide me with the info. on how many impressions each banner makes and how many clicks it recieves.

Well, if your good at some sort of programming I could tell you how it's done (I think).

When you give away the code for the people to display it, you make it goto your script instead of an image.

You'll need some sort of database, like mySQL. In it you should have a row for impressions and/or clicks.

So in the script that is called you connect to your database and get the value of the impressions and increment it and update the database, and at the end of the script you print out the graphic.

And when you want to get the clicks, just make the link to your script, do the same as above but increment the clicks, then redirect the user to the real page.

Hope it made sense


If your looking to buy, look at this one: http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/13362.html

lol it made no sense at all...even if it did, i dont know PHP or ASP which makes me feel out of the crowd, anyone know where to get some tutorials?

i think imma just try and develop a script using JS. i bet if i get creative i think i can manage it out.

hehe, I'll try again...

I have heard (never tried) that you can link to a scrip via the img tag, like this for example: <img src="http://mydomain.com/impression.php">. So if you can do that, then when you give your users the code, do something like that.

And in that script, you get how many impressions by retrieving it from your database, then increment it, then update the database. You do the same thing for the click-thru but you make a <a href="http://mydomain.com/ad_click.php"><img src="http://mydomain.com/impression.php"></a> and in the 'ad_click.php' script you increment the click number.

Now, that probably didn't make any sense either - because you don't know PHP

I like the PHP tutorials at Webmaster Base, so I would check those out. I know allot of people that say they learned just by reading the PHP manual and testing code out, but I could never do that...

If your looking for a book, I would highly recommend PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson, Sams Publishing

i think imma just try and develop a script using JS. i bet if i get creative i think i can manage it out.

I should think you could do that, most of the other services use JS don't they?

i kinda get what your saying chroder, somehow its making sense to me.

See i was thinking and got a little creative and was thinking if i can make a JS script counter that when the user clicks the links it counts.

onmousedown(do this)
dothis:A = A +1

thats not real programming im just using an easy understandable example.

well the thing is how do i know how many clicks have been made? well i think if make the script display the number its that then i will know, but then users may get curious and start playing with the click counter thing and just start clicking to see how high they can go. In that case i was thinking of blending the number count with the background color and putting that all the way at the bottom of the page.
sounds stupid but i just want to see how much i click per min

Hopefully that made sense

Ghetto:
You're asking how to know how you can know how many clicks you have had but I think what Choder already explained is that it can't be dont using javascript.

Why?
Because the kind of javascript you are talking about is only a client-side language. Meaning that it can run scripts but cannot save any information. To save any information you MUST use a server-side like PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl. I would suggest first learning basic javascript. It wont be huge but you need to learn to program before diving into this. Its not gunna happen overnight. I'd just do some tutorials, then try and immitate them, and then write some of your own. If you are truely serious about this then get a book cuz its really good for reference and explaination.
-dk

As people have pointed out, this is going to be quite a lot of server-side work.

If you don't want to use PHPAdsNew (take a look on SourceForge) which does everything you need, you could download a script from HotScripts.

If you really want to make your own, PHP and MySQL make a good combination for this (I have built my own very similar system but it doesn't count clicks).

If you are looking for some good tutorials, try these:
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/php/
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/phpmysql/

thanks david, exactly what i was looking for...tutorials.

even though imma still try your advise and run some searches through hotscripts.

ok ive learned a bit of PHP already and im starting to use it.

as to the banner problem, I got a solution. Imma just use ad-rotator like WT is using, provides you with clicks and impressions, its pretty good.