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

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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
 
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
 
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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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP
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