Author Topic: Link tracking a problem? (Read 5536 times)

Kino · « **on:** February 18, 2006, 11:20:19 am »

I attended a seminar of email marketing experts this week. One piece of information I picked up is that spam blockers are now stopping messages that have a different domain name than the one listed in the email. LM's link tracking feature does this.

For example !link001 = mydomain.com/mail/blah.php?link001 in the body of an HTML email. The hyperlink appears as www.clientwebsite.com.

Presumably this is in order to block the Phishers. Makes the use of link tracking a problem however.

Maybe someone can come up with a smart workaround for this? Link opening and other tracking stats are certainly valued.

K

DW · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2006, 04:29:43 am »

Can you find any documentation on this restriction? I'd like to know how widespread it is and do some research about minimizing the damage to ListMailPRO users.

Off-hand, I can't think of a way to get around this very restrictive setting... possibly why they did it this way.

I don't see this catching on as it could kill e-zine advertising...

Regards

Kino · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2006, 09:14:35 am »

Note, the problem really only exists if you print a URL in the email, and the hyperlink in the HTML is different. For example if you put "visit <link>my website</link>" instead of <link>www.mywebsite.com</link> and put the tracking URL on the link as you would normally the problem goes away.

I think you just have to be creative on this.

The information was only anecdotal. If you search SpamAssassin's list of spam flags it might reveal more info.

K

DW · « **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2006, 03:13:45 pm »

Good information, thanks - I will no doubt check into this further. You may be interested in this related post.

Regards