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Proper eBlast implementation #206

Open robotman321 opened 8 years ago

robotman321 commented 8 years ago

includes:

hanimayahi commented 8 years ago

How difficult do you think it would be to implement analytics too? Like a tracking pixel to track email opens. I found this answer which is very insightful: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13079838

Or we could use a service like google analytics but I don't know if there's any free really?

robotman321 commented 8 years ago

I like that write up.. we could do just that so that we can see who opens emails..

hanimayahi commented 8 years ago

Awesome :3 If we wanna go all in we could track link clicks too, wouldn't be too hard. All links would have to pass through a script first which records the click, and then redirects the user to the location.

robotman321 commented 8 years ago

let's use that as a phase 2, the tracking image will be easy, but the click handling will be harder.. because we would need to add parsing when we submit a campaign so that it acknowledges links, adds them to a database and substitutes them in for dummy links so it generates the trackable link.. that would be easier than trying to recode the site so all links can handle an id for the user to track on..

hanimayahi commented 8 years ago

Well for an easy way for phase 1, we could manually write in the link tracking in all eblasts? So every time we write a URL, we can write something like: "http://www.animeftw.tv/track.php?id=[reference to the e-blast]&u=[URL]", and for phase 2 we could do as you say, parse the content and then re-substitute all links in the email.

robotman321 commented 8 years ago

That doesn't follow existing SEO friendly formatting standards, so no, we are not doing that.

hanimayahi commented 8 years ago

Welp alright :3

hanimayahi commented 8 years ago

I found this, very interesting: http://www.re-cycledair.com/tracking-email-open-time-with-php

But I don't think we'll have any use to analyse that much data?

robotman321 commented 8 years ago

we arn't looking for anything fancy.. just notification that it was opened, and click throughs on links.. which we already have.. How is the design going?

hanimayahi commented 8 years ago

I'm waiting for the design by Mark, I don't know how I should build the content. I did do a litmus test and I found a issue in android 4.4 with it where the logo doesn't load, and it looks weird on the gmail app (which doesn't support responsive emails) but that might be because the content is empty.

hanimayahi commented 8 years ago

I just found out that some email providers have "feedback loops", which could be good to use maybe for v1.1 of the implementation, or maybe even longer than that. I found some links for the four biggest email providers though. And it really depends how far we want to take this :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

https://postmaster.live.com/snds/JMRP.aspx https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6254652?hl=en https://postmaster.aol.com/fbl-request https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3438.html