Clickthrough Tracking - clickthrough_tracking.cgi

clickthrough_tracking.cgi gives you the ability to keep track on how many times certain urls are clicked on in your list messages.


Installing clickthrough_tracking.cgi

clickthrough_tracking.cgi should be installed into your mojo/plugins directory. Upload the script and change it's permissions to 755.

Add this entry to the $ADMIN_MENU array ref:

         {-Title          => 'Clickthrough Tracking', 
          -Title_URL      => $PLUGIN_URL."/clickthrough_tracking.cgi",
          -Function       => 'clickthrough_tracking',
          -Activated      => 1, 
          },

It's possible that this has already been added to $ADMIN_MENU and all you would need to do is uncomment this entry.


Using clickthrough_tracking.cgi

Clickthrough tracking works by passing the URL you want to track to a script that keeps track of what URL gets clicked when, then redirecting the user to the real URL.

To use the clickthrough tracking capabilities, first visit clickthrough_tracking.cgi in your web browser and activate clickthrough tracking

When you write a list message use the special [redirect] tag, instead of just a URL:

Instead of:

        http://yahoo.com

Write:

    [redirect=http://yahoo.com]

If you're are writing an HTML message,

Instead of:

        <a href="http://yahoo.com";>http://yahoo.com<;/a>

Write:

        <a href="[redirect=http://yahoo.com]">http://yahoo.com<;/a>

Make sure:


Viewing Clickthrough Information

After a mailing list message is sent out with clickthrough redirects in them, the reports can be viewed by visiting clickthrough_tracking.cgi in your browser.


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