Customer tracking

SentineL-X

SentineL-X

SentineL-X

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Hi there,
I'll quickly outline what i intend to do:

I'm looking at tracking customers to my site. I send out newsletters on a monthly basis, and im wondering if there was any software out there that would let me track how many people came to my site through clicking the link from within the e-mail and see what pages they visit.

Is there any software out there i can purchase that will do this for me?
Something along the lines of this: http://www.opentracker.net/index.jsp
But it doesnt seam to offer the e-mail tracking facility i want.

Many thanks for any advice.
 
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Cheers for the response,
but im looking at something a little more complex than that and i should have been more specific.

The link goes to the homepage, and i want to be able to then see detailed graphs etc of who comes from that e-mail and also see what other pages they see... Eventually, i might look at integrating it into other aspects of my site...

Cheers
 
There are many ways to do this.


Depending on the situation i use one of the following techniques.

  1. A custom tracking app
  2. A query string


The custom app is basically a php script that tracks a unique id (www.mysite.com/tracking.php?source=106) and then log that hit to a DB and then redirect the user.


The query string is much simplier and you can just use you normal link such as www.mysite.com/index.php?source=106 and check your web stats (use something free like awstats)
 
Bloo_Fish said:
There are many ways to do this.


Depending on the situation i use one of the following techniques.

  1. A custom tracking app
  2. A query string


The custom app is basically a php script that tracks a unique id (www.mysite.com/tracking.php?source=106) and then log that hit to a DB and then redirect the user.


The query string is much simplier and you can just use you normal link such as www.mysite.com/index.php?source=106 and check your web stats (use something free like awstats)
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Thats kind of what I was getting at with my suggestion. I was just being lazy in not writing it out.

I would do this.

Justin
 
JustinW said:
I thought about that but unless you couple it with the query string feature its usless.

Justin
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Yes, sorry - to clarify, e-mails don't send a HTTP Referer so you'l need some sort of unique link :)
 
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