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MailUp can be easily integrated with any web analytics system. Just create the campaign within the web analytics system (e.g. "newsletter"), copy its tracking code (e.g. ?39du3h24w8e3), and paste it into the system. You have different options to do so. Specifically, you can:
- Edit each link in the message editor when creating or editing an email message
- Apply the same tracking to all links included in the same message (see below)
- Apply the same trackng tracking code to all links included in all messages created in the same List, using the corresponding field in the Advanced tab of your List preferences
At the message level, you will find this feature when opening the advanced options menu in on the MailUp message editor page. In the editor, first, click on "Advanced"...
... then locate the area called "Automated link tracking"...
... and enter the code that will allow you to track your campaign. This changes depending on which Web analytics tracking system you are using.
The most popular one is Google Analytics, and therefore in this document, we will focus on that (we also wrote a blog post on this topic: Google Analytics campaign tracking in MailUp).
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You can easily add the tracking code provided by Google Analytics in the box "Add these parameters to all links". Tracking The tracking code must be pasted omitting the "?" at the beginning. e.g.:
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- See how campaign tracking works
It's really simple. Basically, you You can append a special querystring query string to a URL to tell Google Analytics more information about the visit to that URL. If the word "querystringquery string" sounds a bit scary, don't worry. The URL builder mentioned below creates it automatically for you. - Build a URL that contains campaign tracking code
Google has a free URL builder that can help you create the querystring query string that you will append to the links in your email message in order to tell Google Analytics that visits to those links are indeed coming from that email message. When you build the URL, use terms that will allow you to easily identify your email campaign. For example: For example, if you were using the keywords shown in the screen shot screenshot above, then the URL build built for you would look like this:
Code Block language html/xml http://www.myWebSite.com/?utm_source=monthlyNewsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=March2012
Now, copy the code that follows the question mark:
Code Block language html/xml utm_source=monthlyNewsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=March2012
- ... and paste it in the "Add these parameters to all links" field mentioned above. Remember that this will add these parameters to all links in the message. If you instead wish to have a different querystring query string associated with different links, you can edit the links themselves in the message editor.
- Make sure to save the message!
- You're done: the links in your message will now include this additional information that tells Google Analytics more about the visit to the page. You will be able to see that additional information when you look at your Web statistics in the Google Analytics reports.
Editing the querystring query string for future mailings
Of course, for the next newsletter you will not need to use the URL Builder again , but rather can simply change the campaign name. That is: the only difference in the querystring query string to be added as a custom link parameter would be the following:
| Code Block |
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utm_campaign=March2012 |
... will become:
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utm_campaign=April2012 |
Other notes
- Note that in order to avoid any issues with the URL potentially being "red-flagged" by a spam filter, the tracking code is not added to the links in the HTML code of the email message, but rather it is added dynamically by the link processing script that handles all tracked links.
- If you are using another Web analytics program, the instructions still apply: simply add the campaign tracking code to the corresponding input field on the add/edit message page, as shown above.
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- A message contains a link tracked with ConversionLab
- Link The link points to MailUp standard tracking server (for monitoring clicks by each user)
- MailUp tracking server adds the tracking code of the web analytics system to this link
- MailUp tracking server redirects the user who clicked on the target side
- Target site: the web analytics tracking system, records the conversion assigning it to its source (i.e. newsletter)