How to Track Forwarded Links
- 1). Log on to clickodometer.com, click "Sign up" at the top of the page and fill in the appropriate information. When you enter a URL, ClickOdometer will give you free, up-to-the-minute reports on how many people are clicking the links you forwarded and what they are doing with them.
- 2). Set-up a free account with Google Analytics and open up the URL builder. Put your email in the Website URL box, fill out the appropriate information concerning Campaign Source, Medium, Term, Content and Name, then click "Generate URL." Place the URL it generates into the links in your email and Google Analytics will report on how many times those links were clicked and what sort of people were clicking them. This is a powerful tool for measuring how effectively your links are appealing to your desired demographics.
- 3). Log onto readnotify.com, type the email address you want to send tracked emails from, fill out the forms and select an account option. Add ".readnotify.com" to the end of the recipient's email you want tracked; the recipient will not see this extension on his end. If the recipient opens the email, you will get a detailed report from ReadNotify including, among other things which links he clicked and whether, and sometimes even to whom, he forwarded them.