How to Track Email Clicks and Opening: The Simplest Method

 Are No Email read Recipients bothering you? Want to know whether your receiver read your message or not? Thinking how? This is where tracking email clicks and openings enters the picture.

Email Tracking

Primarily, tracking email clicks and openings refers to monitoring emails sent to the recipients and utilizing the results to your advantage. It allows you to determine who opened your email, the exact location and time they opened it, and what they clicked on messages, apps, websites, and other relevant information. 

So, if you want to track email clicks and openings, this guide is for you to enable all these features for your mail.

Don’t worry WP Mail SMTP’s latest version got you amazing features to monitor the emails on your WordPress.

Email Tracking (Clicks and Openings)

Email tracking can be considered one of the practical marketing tools that you can use for your enterprise. It can provide several benefits. For instance, it can help you save time by tracing those interested in your products or services. When this happens, you can only use your resources for those interested in your enterprise.  

Moreover, it can allow you to monitor your marketing efforts and determine which is working and which isn’t. When you track clicks, you can see which part of your email works effectively to better marketing strategies.

Fortunately, this feature is readily available for Users. With this, you can track everything at your fingertips. To know whether your emails are neglected or getting some attention (quickly). There are some cool features included in the new version.

  • Send Emails from your WordPress
  • Check whether order emails are receving or not
  • Sell courses online and measure rates via notifications

You can clearly inspect whether the email is delivered, opened and any links included in the mail are clicked or not.

To enable this feature you need to turn in email logging (email tracking). You are good to go, WP SMTP will take care of everything automatically (logging email openings or clicks from your site). Instead of checking every mail detail, you can also get the simple overview details.

Using this you can quickly look at the user engagement for your mails. Do you think this is it? There are still more features on the way.

Indeed, email tracking plays a crucial role in the success of your marketing strategies and overall business operations. But aside from keeping track of your emails, you probably have to think about your physical mails. For instance, as an entrepreneur, you need to keep track of your client and advertising mails to ensure a smooth business operation.  

As such, having a tool like a virtual mailbox can be an excellent idea. It can help you receive, process, and manage client and advertising mail while keeping them out of your personal mailbox. However, you can check out reputable websites for more information to know about a virtual mailbox. You can also open your favorite search engine and use keywords like ‘what is a virtual mailbox’ to obtain more accurate search results.  

One-Click Email Resend

The user’s more requested feature is, resending an email (due to some issues mail will not get delivered). Then you can resend it with a simple click, you can find the option in the Action section.

This will ensure an important email does not get wasted, you can resend it till it reaches the receiver. Even if you want to forward it to other’s you can by editing the recipients. A simple dialogue box asking you to enter the receiver’s email.

You can also enter multiple recipients by separating them with a comma like [email protected], [email protected],…., etc. Getting excited ? Not yet, there is a lot more to explore.

Multiple Resend

Let’s take a scenario where you wrote different emails to different receivers, all of a sudden your internet connection drops. Emails are not delivered, are you willing to click on resend for every email you wrote?.

Here is the quick simple solution with WP SMTP, You can add the resend option to all the emails you wrote (bulk resend feature). So, all your emails will be sent with one click.

This latest version includes a smart queueing mechanism to arrange the emails to resend. This will not affect your site speeds (no matter even you resend a million emails at once). There is one more interesting feature.

Email Attachments

Sometimes you might have to save the email along with its attachment for future proposes, this new version brings this feature will save the attachment with the original email.

You can find it in the Attachment section, just below the actions tab. Do you have the same question in my mind? What about the disk space? well, this new release is ready with the answer.

To save the disk space, when you delete a log of email (attachments will also get deleted). Everything will be in your control. When you use resend button, these attachments will also be resent.

Electronic Mail Export (EML)

It’s quite common to find CSV, XLSX export features in almost all the platforms. This time a new feature with a new release brought you EML export for the users. What’s it? well, if you can export mail as mail to any other mail client. Fascinating right? What you can do with this?

  • Export Email & open it on any other email client (gmail, yahoo, etc)
  • Export multiple emails in one Zip file

You can find this feature on the Actions tab, this feature enables you to view the email exactly in the format it was sent. Awsomeright? It’s for anyone who wants their template to look the same alike when they opened in others or you can achieve mails in a visual format.

Email Log (Aggregated)

Is it correct to open each & every subsite to view your email logs? WP SMTP addressed this issue by bringing aggregated features. So you can save a lot of time by loading all of your subsites email logs in 1 place.

This feature is available for network admins (multisite installations). Navigate to the email log page to find this feature.

This is very simple & easy to manage all the emails on subsites. I love this feature, if you have tons of subsites you can switch between them from the drop-down menu (in seconds). This feature is live in the new version.

Benefit: Also, you can maintain individual site settings if you want.

Conclusion

All these features are packed in one build, every feature is exceptionally crafted to be used in different scenarios. I personally loved email export & multiple email resend options, what’s your favorite? let me know in the comment section.

FAQs Related to Tracking Email

Can I Know Whether The Reciever Opened My Mail Or Not?

Yes, by enabling the email log feature for your WordPress. For that, you need to install the WP SMTP for your WordPress site. Every feature is explained what you will get with it.

How Many Mails Can I Resend At Once?

You can resend as many as you can with one click (Bulk Resend feature is there). Select the mails you want to resend and click resend button, you are done.

Can I Export The Email?

You can export email as you like the format (excel, CSV, or even in the same format you received it). Check the action tab for export options in the email log.

How To Setup Email Logging?

There is a detailed guide on how to set up email logging, you can refer to that to get a clear picture.

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