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By oeroek on
Using the feedapi module and simple pie parser I import some feeds and convert them into nodes. Subsequently I made some blocks showing the most recent 10 items per feed. I have several of these blocks that provide a link directly (outbound link) to the original article presented in the feed.
I would like to count how many times people click on each link. MOreover, I would like to use this information to present a most popular block that shows the top 10 feeditem links that were clicked the most.
I now have several challenges:
1) How to measure clicks on outbound links? I think it should be possible to make a javascript onclick event doing something to count the votes.I wonder however what would be the easiest way to count and store the votes on a link (1 link per node).
2) I need this information to be imported into views so that I can use it to sort a list of feeditem nodes based on the number of clicks.
I did think about the votingapi module bu am not sure how I can fill the database with the number of times visitors clicked on a link.
What are your thoughts about this? How can I accomplish this task without too much scripting.
