As per title, what do I need, a redirect? Anyway, what would you suggest to check what subscribers do when they get their newsletter via email?
To track the clicks from an email, you should have the link go through a click tracking script. (for example: yousite.com/click-tracking/id?=12345) Embedd that sort of tracking link in the emails to monitor the email behaviour.
Yeah, I can confirm it's clicks. I could send all clicks through a page with stats, but it would have to be one per email right? My list isn't big, just a few subscribers which I hope will increase, but still too many for a page each. Looking for ideas.... Thanks!
Yes, if you setup a page for each email that is probably the best option. Unless you want to install a tracking script into your site.
For example, for email 1, you will have a page called email1.html, for your next email it will be email2.html, etc...
mybloglog cannot track clicks inside emails. But if you are using mybloglog and feel limited by the 10 clicks, you should take a look at gostats which doesn't impose a limit for click counting.
Yes, I figured that, thanks anyway. But let's say I have 100-200 emails to send out, that would take quite some time. That's why I was looking for an alternative, and to be honest, I really thought there was a simple one available.
In that case, you should send the links through a re-direction script which counts the clicks to each destination. (each email would have a different link id)
Using google analytics it is very easy. As mentioned above you just put a unique identifier on the link. You can give it a campaign name, describe the link, and other things for your own purposes. If I missed something and you can't use Google Analytics for some reason, there seems to be plenty of other ways listed above.
OK, so would I be able to get away with having to create a page per email? Can you confirm that before I throw myself into that? Thanks!
Am I missing something, why would you want to create a page per email? Do you mean email broadcast, or an individual email?
Sorry, I mean the tracking method mentioned above, track the emails by directing the link to a unique page for that email, monitored by some stats script, and immediately redirect the visitor to the destination page.
Yes that would work, especially if you don't already have another solution for tracking in place. Going forward I would look at a platform that supports unique identifiers in the URL to create campaigns. @GoStats Does GoStats support unique identifiers?