HTML Email Tracking

[mudogg80]

Is it possible and if so, can anyone give me some help on how to track if a user has clicked in an HTML email newsletter? And whats the best way to do that?

Thanks!

[Demaestro]

Have the links include a query string that gets recorded.

So your link points to

www.example.com/a_page.php

Add something like:
www.example.com/a_page.php?tracking_id=34534459987960

When you send out emails record which email has which tracking number in a DB similar to this layout.

Reference_ID ¦ Email
34534459987960 ¦ [e-mail]
34534459987961 ¦ [e-mail]

On the landing page ..../a_page.php

Have something that says

if tracking_id:
record_tracking_id(id=request['tracking_id'])

The record_tracking_id can enter into a db saying

Reference_ID ¦ page ¦ time
34534459987960 ¦ a_page ¦ 123:099867GMT

Or what ever you want to do with it.

Hope this helpes and makes sense.

[mudogg80]

That is a beautiful thing!
Thank you very much!

[Demaestro]

My pleasure... I get so much help from this site. I love to help back.