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Including [Email] in links

edited February 2013 in Questions

Any way to have Sendy track clicks on links that include [Email] or other custom fields in them?

We need to know who is clicking on a per link basis.

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  • Hi @Royal,

    All links will be tracked except for [Email]. Here's why:

    If your HTML tag looks like that:

    <a href="mailto:[Email]">Email us</a>

    Clicking on this link will launch a new compose window in your recipient's email client.

    If we convert this [Email] tag into a trackable link, the result HTML tag will look like this:

    <a href="mailto:http://yourdomain.com/t/a/2" title=""></a>

    Clicking on the above link will not launch a new compose window in your recipient's email client because this is an invalid HTML tag. What comes after mailto: should always be an email address instead of a HTTP URL.

    Hope this clarifies.

    Thanks.

    Ben

  • Sorry if I was not clear. I want to see who is clicking each link or at least a single specific link in a campaign. Right now "Reports >> Link Activity >> Export subscribers who clicked" has no link data associated with the emails in the list.

    I need to see who clicked what.

  • Ahh. That will come in the next version which is still currently being worked on.

  • edited February 2013

    Sorry for this next one, in the interim can I track with Google, adding the email there as such? Will this parse correctly as a link in the newsletter?

    http://www.site.com/2013/2/february-2013-2a/?utm_source=2-2013&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=[Email]&utm_campaign=February

  • Yes that will work.

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