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4:17 am
June 10, 2011
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QuoteHow do you turn on tracking for opens without turning on the tracking for clicks in Aweber? Is it possible? I turned off the click tracking because it changed the links to Aweber links, and some people were complaining about not being able to open those links. When I turned off link tracking, the problems went away. However, I can't seem to even track opens now.
6:45 am
June 7, 2011
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If you don't use the html field and only send your messages as plain text then Aweber will track opens but not clicks, but don't do that…
I know what you're talking about and years ago I did it the same way because of that same issue. But you REALLY should track your clicks. It's important intel. You might have an email with a great subject line that gets a lot of opens but prhaps gets few clicks because of some disconnect between the subject line and the call to action. You need to know that kind of thing.
What you want to do is paste/draft your email into the "plain text" field and then copy it and paste it into the html field. Take your link and then create a hyper link using the text editor. Even if you are just using the actual link as the anchor text for the link itself… does that make sense.
When you create links using the anchor text, the link tracking is not displayed and people will only see the URL that you used as your anchor text. You can also use actual anchor text as well (IE, click here). But I personally think the trust factor is higher if people see the URL.
That's how I would do it.
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7:56 pm
June 9, 2011
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I'd track the clicks too if I were you.
However to try to answer your questoin as a non- aweber user. They should give you click tracking options in the campaign options/set-up.
In getresponse there is a tick box for those options.
5:59 am
June 10, 2011
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John Oszajca said:
If you don't use the html field and only send your messages as plain text then Aweber will track opens but not clicks, but don't do that…
I know what you're talking about and years ago I did it the same way because of that same issue. But you REALLY should track your clicks. It's important intel. You might have an email with a great subject line that gets a lot of opens but prhaps gets few clicks because of some disconnect between the subject line and the call to action. You need to know that kind of thing.
What you want to do is paste/draft your email into the "plain text" field and then copy it and paste it into the html field. Take your link and then create a hyper link using the text editor. Even if you are just using the actual link as the anchor text for the link itself… does that make sense.
When you create links using the anchor text, the link tracking is not displayed and people will only see the URL that you used as your anchor text. You can also use actual anchor text as well (IE, click here). But I personally think the trust factor is higher if people see the URL.
That's how I would do it.
Hmmm…Maybe you're doing something that I wasn't. Would it be too much to ask for a short video showing exactly what you're doing?
My experience with HTML messages and link tracking was terrible, terrible, terrible! I am *only* sending out plain text with the link tracking off. It wasn't just that people were mistrusting the links. They links were getting mangled by some email providers (I forget which ones). It took ditching the HTML *and* turning off link tracking to resolve the issues.
I was really pissing some people off. Seriously. There's nothing quite like getting a bunch hate mail saying stuff like, "Hey! I entrusted my email address to you! Now I'm getting emails from you that don't deliver what you promised. Not cool!"
BTW, I was creating the messages in both HTML and plain text like Aweber suggested. I thought Aweber was supposed to be able to tell which providers screwed up the HTML messages so they could send the plain text versions in those cases. That didn't seem to work in my experience.
6:54 pm
June 7, 2011
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I'll try to put something together when I have a free sec. Pretty slammed at the moment. But it's pretty straight forward.
Just use the html editor to add a link to your link... get it? Copy your plain text message over to the html field and then find your URL. Copy the URL and then select the link icon from the html editor. Add your url into the link field. So it's a link that has itself as the hyper link. It still turns the link into a trackable aweber link but no one sees it because they see your url as anchor text. Make sense? If you don't do that it will automatically hyperlink, but people will see the aweber redirect.
As far as pissing people off, you can't let a couple emails bother you. Redirects are extremely common. You're just gonna get a small percentage of people who want to complain. Nonetheless, the solution above should fix that.
As far as Aweber automatically detecting settings of the email provider, my udnerstanding is that all they do is go with the plain text email when you don't provide an html email, or the person receiving it specifically has html turned off.
Let me know if you have problems.
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