How can i track link click in custom html email template?

Hello Guys,

I have email template. There are couple of links to go to third party site. So, I need track that how many users click on that. If you know any PHP or Jquery code or Any reference URL for link click track for email template so please help me.

Thanks in advance.

 

I found an Article here, http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-analytics-track-email-clicks/2476/
This may help you, Look for the section "Track Clicks on Links That Point to External Websites" on that page.

 

Thank you for your quick feedback. The Article is to track analytic records. I need actually email template content click track.

Thanks,
Nilesh

 

As far as I know the only way to track clicks from an e-mail is to intercept them, log the click and then forward the user to the desired address. So for example, you would set up a php script on your own server with a url like mysite.com/emailclick.php and make the following happen:

1. All link urls in the e-mail template have the format http://mysite.com/emailclick.php?url=http://targetsite.com/whatever-page&email=name@email.com,
2. When the user clicks on a link they go to the PHP script on your server,
3. Your PHP script logs the e-mail and target url of the click in a database,
4. Your PHP script forwards the user to the target url by returning a code 301 or 303 in the header.

This would all be largely transparent to the user. If they looked, they would notice that all the urls in the e-mail links point to your server, but the actual operation that occurs when they click should happen fast enough that they think they are clicking directly through to the target url.

 

Place at your host a script, which will redirect to third party sites and keep statistics of such redirects, you can provide to script an id of mailing, or even id of each client email