Can I send a link via email and track if the person clicks on it?

J

jon spivey

Hi Bob,
you'd probably put a customerid or something at the end of the link then
read it, eg with ASP you might have
<a href="page.asp?id=2">click here</a>
then record the IDs that click thru with
request("id")
If you want to find out if the guy read the email atall put a link to an asp
script, eg
<img src="http://you.com/track.asp?id=2" width=1 height=1>
then you can record who read the email and who clicked the link
 
B

Bob H

I'd like to send a link to someone via email to a document on my web site.
Is it possible to track/record whether that person clicked through? I know
there are services like Constant Contact that can do this, but I'd rather do
it myself.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

bob
 
K

Kevin Spencer

Sure it's possible, but it will require some custom server-side programming
to do it. What you have to do is to create a link for each email that has a
custom Query String identifying the user that received the email. Then the
link would point to an ASP (or whatever server-side t4echnology you can use)
page that records the click-through of the user from the Query String into a
database.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
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