How To… Create a tracking image
GoTryTHIS tracks links to any web object, which can include tracking images. A tracking image is a 1×1 empty (transparent) image, which is linked to through a GoTryTHIS link.
You can use tracking images to track open rates on HTML e-mails or hits/impressions on any page. You can also use the same technique to track banner ad impressions by replacing the link to your banner image with a GoTryTHIS link.
It is important to use .php in the redirect link instead of .gif as shown in the example below. Some servers will not redirect images correctly.
Here is a tracking image you can use: empty.gif
(Right click and select “Save Link As”, or the equivalent for your browser, then upload it to your own server. Please do not link directly to this image on our server!)
To use a tracking image, create a GoTryTHIS link to the tracking image for each separate use and then insert the GoTryTHIS link into a web page or HTML e-mail using the <img> HTML tag. You can use the same empty.gif tracking image repeatedly for all your GoTryTHIS tracking image links.
Example GoTryTHIS tracking link:
Redirect: “yoursite.com/track.php”
To URL: “yoursite.com/images/empty.gif”Example use of GoTryTHIS tracking link in HTML:
<img src=”http://yoursite.com/track.php” width=”1″ height=”1″>