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Building mirror pages !

By Kevin Needham

So you have finally decided to do a little advertising? Perhaps your going to post in a couple of newsgroups or your going to submit to a number of classified ad sites? You may even be thinking about placing an ad right here, in the Inet Mailer?

Great ideas, but first, your going to want to be able to tell if each and every ad you place is worth your time. How else will you know if you should keep repeating the same ads in the same places? No matter what type of advertising you do, free or paid, it is important to track your results. The best way to track results is using mirror pages.

A mirror page is also called a "lead in page". You can set them up very easily and then only advertise the mirror page. This way, you can check your log file (ask your ISP how, if you do not know) to see how many visitors have come to your mirror page and keep track of how effective your advertising campaign was.

Please note: We do not recommend these mirror pages for tracking hits from the top ten search engines, but for all other types of advertising they are great.

To make a mirror page, simply copy this code:

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="1;

URL=http://www.your.url.here">

<TITLE> Your title here </TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#FFFFFF">

<P>

Put all your keywords here, separated

by commas,</BODY></HTML>

Now, change these variables:

http://www.your.url.here = The URL you want to direct traffic to!

Your title here = The title of your mirror page!

Put all your keywords here == All your keywords!

CONTENT="1; == The 1 means one second to refresh the page, Set this to any number of seconds you wish!

That is it, a visitor comes to your mirror page, and in one second it refreshes and takes them to the URL you programmed in.

Here is a working example. We are currently using it in an

advertising campaign.

http://www.inetexchange.com/m-tips/index.htm

I'm only suggesting you use these mirror pages for tracking your advertising campaigns. The search engines will penalize you for trying to submit a mirror page to their index.

That’s fine, if you need a quick way to track your ads, then creating quick and simple mirror pages is the way to go.

Kevin Needham, Publisher, Inet Mailer.

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