How to track record requests?

[kydavis]

My site pulls its data from my DB through coldfusion. I have pages for Individual records (If the user selects a certain band, they are taken to that bands page). For each band, I would like to keep a record of how many people have viewed that bands page. As I said before, all of this information is dynamic, so It would need to track a certain URL variable or times that a certain record was requested. How can I do this?

 

[imstillatwork]

instead of linking straight to the bands page, can link to a script that will update the databse to show that someone clicked, then it will redirect them to the site.

So instead of a link like

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://thisbandswebsite.com">Visit[/URL] This Band's Site</a>

you would do

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://yoursite.com/sendtoband.cfm?band=33">Visit[/URL] This Band's Site</a>

sendtoband.cfm would contain code that will update the database, and redirect the visitor to the bands site.

 

[krisbrixon]

I second imstillatwork's idea, that is the same thing that Yahoo and those type of sites do. (check their URLs.)

Kris Brixon
www.brixon.org