I am new to website designing and wanted to know couple of things.
when some clicks on the link on my website say www.google.com, can i trace that how many people clicked on it.
When i send out emails with attachments, can i record how many people opened those attachements. btw this is not yahoo or gmail, its my personal email with an ISP.
if so, please put references so i can read them or explanation if possible
Create the links on your website so that they do a GET to your website first, and then redirect to the desired website.
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The email attachment is a different problem. If you send an email that reads the attachment from your website, you can record the traffic.
For tracking outbound clicks, services like Google Analytics can wrap every link on your site with JavaScript and provide statistics and sexy graphs.
For tracking email attachments, it depends on the attachment. Static files like images can't make callbacks to the Internet, but something like a PDF with embedded JavaScript might be able to.
As for links within the emails, you can make each link in each email unique by associating a token with each email recipient, e.g. Some Link. Store the token in a database along with the recipient's email address and later you can cross-reference hits on your site with emails you sent out.
I know there are a handful services that do the latter, but I can't name any offhand. Search for "email newsletter service."
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I am using Amazon Simple Email Service to send email to my web application users. I am sending mail by using verified email by amazon as well but still, emails are being sent on Promotions tabs in Gmail.
Anyone can guide me for this?
If your mail appears to be promotional in nature, then it belongs in the Promotions tab, and that is where Gmail will present it unless a preponderance of your recipients are engaging with it in such a way as to indicate it belongs in a different tab.
Generally speaking, important and one-to-one correspondence will be presented in the Primary tab, social media in the Social tab, news alerts, newsletters, transactional mail will display in the Updates tab, and list traffic in the Forums tab.
Mail displaying in any of these tabs are, by definition, in the Gmail inbox.
I know this is al old question, but I found this excellent resource, I though it will be good to share. Follow these steps you should be out of trouble (and out of the Promotions folder, too)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/tips-and-best-practices.html
We send out email newsletters and automated confirmation emails to users of our websites. Each email has an unsubscribe link in the email footer and each recipient opted in to receive emails.
Outlook webmail has the unsubscribe link above the body of the email in the following form:
Getting too much email from #SENDER#? You can unsubscribe
Clicking on the link opens a dialog window with following content:
Block this sender
[SENDER] hasn't given us any information to help you unsubscribe, so we'll block everything sent from the following sender: [EMAIL_ADDRESS]
[×] Also delete everything from [SENDER] in my Inbox folder
I search the internet and even contacted the Outlook support and asked them what info they need from us to help recepients unsubscribe from our emails. After several email exchanges the Outlook support concluded that they have no idea how to change Outlook's unsubscribe link, what information we should give them and how we should give them the information.
Can anyone please advise or point me to the right direction please? Thanks.
Is it "List-Unsubscribe" MIME header? http://www.list-unsubscribe.com/
You're confusing a couple of things here. First, while outlook.com is a Microsoft domain, Outlook itself is an entirely different thing, and people can be using Outlook as their mail program regardless of what domain they have. You won't know what client people are using for email, or what server they use to access it. Second, you say that email communication is vital for your websites. Banning people from your newsletters doesn't help that situation in the least. People using the various Microsoft services that you mention have no trouble receiving and participating in those email communications. What you don't touch on, is what software you're using for your newsletters. THAT is where your problem probably is. If you go to that domain.com/unsubscribe URL, what does that page do/look like? There are 2 usual links for a List-Unsubscribe header. One is a mailto: link such as unsub-list-12345#domain.com, where any email to that address performs an unsubscription. For the web link version, it needs to be a link to a page that automatically unsubscribes the user (so the link would need to be customized with variables such as the mailing list).
I'd like for all emails send from my server (e.g. mail#example.com) to arrive in recipients inboxes with a custom sender image used in Apple Mail and Google Inbox.
I have created a new Google+ account, linked and verified my website (by uploading the .html file, you know ;]), but still, the emails don't contain my Google + profile image as their sender image.
I assume it's something to do with me not sending emails from the new gmail address I've created with Google+. I'm hoping someone knows how to work around this and have Google+ treat any emails coming from my domain as the new Google+ account's own.
This Article seems to provide a good overall answer. I'll do a quick summary here.
As a takeaway:
Ensure your site is verified on Google+. This is done in Webmaster tools(link), and your webmaster must approve.
Ensure you have adequate email traffic (seems around 1k a week should do it).
When sending from a domain not matching Google+, you'll need to include a snippet of code in your email, and have Gmail approve the link.
Ensure that your email is authenticated against your domain and not your ESPs (or use the Featured Image markup).
I'm reading about the new development of Google quick action buttons in the mail inbox.
I'm a little bit lost in this topic and not understand how I can include this function in my emails.
I have read about DKIM/SPF but I don't know if this functionality could need to do an google app.
I have my mail server with marketing segmentation and I want this button is visible when email come to client (destiny) gmail inbox (guess only works in gmail....). If i have included the markup code in html in my emails, why i can't see this button?
would it need create a specific mail application to implement this feature and send emails from this app? Someone tried this?
I know maybe this has been reply before but i think must start more down... so.. sorry.
Thanks and regards!
When you are ready to launch your marked up emails to your users, you will need to register with Google. Please follow this process:
1.Send a real-life email coming from your production servers (or a server with similar DKIM/SPF/From:/Return-Path: headers) including the markup / schema to schema.whitelisting+sample#gmail.com.
2.If you send a test/blank email, an email that does not contain schema or if you don't send an email for review your application will be silently discarded.
3.Make sure that the markup is correct prior to sending the email. For more details see Testing your Schema. Especially make sure the email passes the Email markup Tester and that there are no errors, also make sure to include as much data as possible.
4.Gmail removes all markup when forwarding an email. Do not forward the email but send it directly.
Fill out the registration form available here.
Here is the link for the documentation.
Hope this helps!!
Are you sending a promotional email (offers, etc.)?
If yes, then you are likely to be delivered to the Promotions tab, where quick actions do not work (according to Litmus - https://litmus.com/ebooks/gmail-ebook/gmail-ebook/).
Quick Actions work best in the Inbox for transactional emails.
("Here is your booking confirmation" [Check-in now] quick action)
These typically arrive directly in the Inbox.
I am trying to avoid going into the spam folder when I send an email to users on my website.
Mainly I need them to activate their newly registered account and if it's in the spam folder, they most likely will never activate it.
I noticed that for the most part, it's Hotmail that blocks my emails.
I read a lot that the more people mark it as not-spam, and if they add the email to their contacts, that why it increases the chances of not going to spam folders in the future.
Is there a way to offer a link for "add this email to your contacts" in the html body of the email?
Also, what can I do to not get to the spam in general? I tried stripping all the html and just send plain text but still went to spam...
To prevent your emails from going to spam can entail optimizing a number of things such as
Text of the email (even if it's plain text.. spammy/salesy wording will still trigger spam
The domain in which your sending the email from
Whether or not your sending domain is authenticated (e.g. SPF, DKIM)
Checking that your not on spam lists
What people usually do is create a link to a page which provides step by step instructions on how users can whitelist the sender in various email clients and providers.
This website will actually auto-generate the instructions page for you: http://www.emaildeliveryjedi.com/email-whitelist.php
Mailchimp offers a solution which allows you to add an 'Add-to-Address-Book' link to your campaigns but it's not very broadly compatible with all clients. What they're doing is embedded hcard microdata.
Further:
Mailchimp Add-to-Address-Book Links
hCard
I'd recommend sending a test email to http://isnotspam.com/
They run a SpamAssassin test (and a few others) on the email and give you an output, which is a good metric to judge most spam filters by.
Another thing to look out for is that GMail's doesn't like when you mention money at all, especially large amounts.