tracking clicks on mailto links

and storing referrer and keyword - possible?

[ppg]

In order to track how well a new campaign goes for a lead generating site I want to track and store the referrer and relevant keyword (which will be stored in a cookie on site entry), much like an exit link, but I want to do it for mailto links.

Is this possible?

I've tried it using a redirect page. This boots up the mail client ok but the 'to' portion of the mailto link doesn't carry over to the email. Also its a little messy since the user ends up on the redirect page rather that the page they clicked the link on.

Ideas?

thanks,

Paul

[Brett_Tabke]

Look around - there is some js out there to do it, but I wouldn't trust it to work in all browsers.

[Yidaki]

>js

You could use a js script like the one google uses to track clicks. A bit of customization and you're done. Here's a thread i posted some days ago that explains how it works:

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[ppg]

perfect, thanks!