I need to track the twitter and facebook url's on my HTML email. This will be sent via our own server (and software) which is hosted with Memset. We won't be using an off the shelf email system such as Mailchimp.
I can't use bit.ly as our server builds the url's just before they are sent. Is there any other way to track the links?
Thanks in advance!
Related
Good day,
Background: We have a single web application that multiple external websites link to; users visit www.aaa.com or www.bbb.com and can then click through to our web site at www.example.com.
When we send email comms, the users are directed to their respective client URL.
We require a method of tracking these users from email comms using Google Analytics so that we can see their activity in the Campaigns section.
Issue: The problem is that whilst we have Google Analytics enabled on www.example.com, we are not able to install analytics on client URLs. This means that if we affix the Google tags after the URL in emails, these are stripped out when a user then navigates around a client URL before visiting ours. This then means they do not appear in the 'Campaigns' tab of GA. That is:
trackable --> www.example.com?utm_source=offeremail&utm_campaign=testcampaign&utm_medium=email
not trackable -- > www.aaa.com?utm_source=offeremail&utm_campaign=testcampaign&utm_medium=email
Question: Are we able to start the tracking once a user clicks a link in an email but then accesses our site from another site and then show the results in the campaign tab?
Thank you!
Short answer: No. You need to pass the UTM-parameters in the URL for Google Analytics to understand it is campaign traffic. This is usually the issue with redirects between websites, that this UTM-tagging is lost, thus losing the campaign information.
What I would suggest is that you look at referrals or have your clients add tracking to the links back to your website. Then correlate that to the dates of your send-outs. It is a bit of a middleground, but it should do the trick to atleast see trending success.
In WhatsApp we can easily share the content with message app, mail, and even within WhatsApp.
But in Telegraph I cannot see this forward menu. I have tried to look in the settings for a permission option to allow Telegraph to share data with WhatsApp, but have been unsuccessful yet. Any guidance?
The answer is that it has to be done using a email or online repository as a two step process. And then re-post the data in Whats-app.
Our requirement is to send an email to user which will be having our site link. Since site can be opened in mobile as well, when user clicks the link from the email it should be redirected to mobile application site if the device is mobile or else desktop site.
Currently we are Using C# to send email. Since Javascript is not supported in HTML body of email, We are looking for some other approach. Can anyone please suggest, how to detect the device and redirect to the link from email appropriately.
Thanks.
You don't need anything in the email - Instead use media queries in your website to adjust the result to the screen size. You can either have a responsive site, or use javascript on your main site to reroute them to the mobile version of your website if needed.
There is no real way to do this in email. Technically you could put media queries in your email to show or hide one link or another, but media queries are not 100% supported in email, so you are better off using them on your website.
Wondering if anyone has actually managed to get the "share" functionality working in an email newsletter.
Currently being asked by a client to "share" a certain part of a newsletter directly to a persons wall.
However, the HTML will be generated by 1 program, and then a copy and paste into the email blaster to be sent.
Essentially, wondering can it be done? Are there any examples?
The like button plugin will work for a web page, not content in an email.
The share is being deprecated.
The send button plugin is used to share a URL (which is not content of an email).
I would suggest that the html of the email being blasted also be hosted on a web page. Then have that like (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/) button's (that is being send via email) set it's href property to that of the hosted web page. That should work well.
Happy coding!
I would like to upload an html email I created to my client's server thru my ftp program. I am assuming that it isn't working because his site is in Joomla. I have tried to upload the file, and I see it there in my uploaded files, but when I enter that page address into my browser's address bar it says it can't find the file. Is there a way to do this when his site is in Joomla? Thanks so much! (His site is prohomebuyer.com)
Thanks for commenting. Yes, I have uploaded to public_html, and I see it there. But, when I look for it online, I get the website's error message inside the site template.