Are there any ways to track for the visitor of my site , which site visitor come from?

Question

This is a problem because when I do email campaign, There is a link on the email, that link to my company homepage, I would like to differentiate between the visitor come from another way (e.g. search on google) or the visitor come from the email I have sent.

Is it able to check such kind of information ? Thankyou

Answer 1

Use the Javascript `document.referrer.hostname'. Note that it will be null if the user navigated to your page via the address bar, and it doesn't work in IE, so enclose it in a trycatch block.

For different email campaigns, modify their links. So have one email campaign go to yoursite.com/landing.php?campaign=1 the other to yoursite.com/landing.php?campaign=2

To implement all this, create a php/jsp/asp file, landing.php that can record the email campaign. Make a similar bare-bones page, record.php, that records the sitename and IP. On every page of your site, add the javascript code. If the result isn't your sitename, blank, or null, have the JS AJAX-request the page record.php?fromsite=sitename&ip=IPAddress. Or something like that.