Tracking visitors through link building efforts

[Walalayo]

I would like to monitor the effectiveness of a link building campaign in terms of number of visitors from each stage of the campaign.

Comparing using http referrer is going to be a time consuming exercise. I can assign each stage of the campaign a unique tracking code to place on the query string, however this is hardly visually friendly. Other thoughts were to link to a 301 that could then monitor the request, but this smells like an abuse and could hamper the other benefits of link building.

Any suggestions and / or how do you monitor link building efforts in terms of traffic generation?

[takeshiro]

i think you can track your visitors through RSS. not sure though.

[smith]

Hi,
There are many ways to track a Unique Visitor like cookies, IP address, ISPs and so on.

[Hogward]

Simple you can make use of Google Analytics to track your visitors. For this you need to install the Google Analytics code in your website.