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I am releasing a site that is being promoted in a few different ways, some not online. I would like to track where visitors came from to see how well each promotion does. this would be easy enough if it were all online.

 

I was thinking of using short subdomains to track in a db where offline promotion visitors came from. I figured it would be easier for a person to remember and use, for example, miami.sitename.com than www.sitename.com/index.pph?from=blah. I guess I would just store the info in a db and redirect. Is this a stupid way of doing this? Is there a better way?

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to be honest, with offline promotions, using subdomains in this way is probably your best bet - you're right when you say it's far easier to remember, because i personally wouldnt both with the query string if that was presented to me.

 

Doesn't have to be subdomains though. A similar (though maybe easier to set up) is a method we use frequently at work - mysite.com/promoname where promoname is the short representation of your promo. eg: mysite.com/miami

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