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Warning on Email Open Tracking (Image Download)
Since the email tracking employs a hidden image load to track whether or not it was opened, one key problem is that gmail seems to throw a warning about down loadable content because of the image. This seems like something that may actually turn someone away from reading it, in fear of something malicious. Any thoughts on this or ways to work around it?
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One way around this issue is for us to host the image on a secure server. We have plans to implement this within the next few weeks.
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EMPLOYEE
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One way around this issue is for us to host the image on a secure server. We have plans to implement this within the next few weeks.Comment
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Nope. 10 months later they aren't still serving the tracking image on https and you won't track opens on gmail.-
would you please provide any link as reference.. need to show it my dump client who doesn't denied this logic but not ready to accept it
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Seems like a really important issue to fix. -
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I spent ages designing and perfecting the best email open tracking script, full details here...
http://www.geakeit.co.uk/2011/05/22/e...
and-implementing-the-perfect-email-open-script/
It effectively tries to be as stealthy as possible in collecting the open and the browser that's opened it but I really like your idea on measuring how long an email's been open for.
iframes links get blocked by spam filters or just not registered/loaded/rendered at all in the browsers - However, you can work around this using mod_rewrite to load pseudo images that are really php/asp files.
I've tried this with trying to inject javascript into user's browsers by linking images. I wanted to use js to enable images for webmail clients, never worked though. -
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So you're telling me you've never gotten an email where immediately above it was the link "click to download images?" Rule of thumb with email marketing is you always have your main message be clear and legible even without any images being loaded.
Even if they had https links on that pixel any other image in the email would pull up the same error -
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@Brent - Yeah of course I get those. But if they didn't use https the images would load by default in Gmail.
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