How To Track Your ViralUrl Emails

November 20, 2009 · Posted in email tracking · 6 Comments

being able to track your viralurl email results is essential

On our last post I told you how it’s impossible to track ViralUrl open rates, since that technology is quite advanced and no list builder offers it.

But you can absolutely track your ClickThrough Rate (the number of people that clicked on the links on your email).

This data will give you an idea of how good your copywriting skills are, how active are your responses, and which product works best for ViralUrl audiences.

There are tons of options when it comes to tracking visitors, but they’re mostly available for webmasters. If you’re sending traffic to an affiliate page, you won’t have access to their Analytics or Awstats.

So what can you do?

1. Bit.Ly Url Shortener

The guys at bit.ly offer a series of services associated with their url shortening engine. Every time you shorten a url with bit.ly, they are capable of tracking ALL clicks, even through twitter or facebook – and will give the original data in a simple report.

Bit.Ly tracks all clicks to your links - perfect to track ViralUrl emails

Now, of course, if you use the same shortened url on your twitter, on your blog, and on ViralUrl, your data has a lot of space to get lost and your data will be corrupted. So dont do it!

Create unique urls for your viral blasts – you can keep the same one for every message, but sometimes people open their emails more than 72 hours later, so you have a change of getting your data messed up if they take too long to open.

There you have it – now you have access to crucial data for your marketing campaigns with VU.