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phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager

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phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager

Overview of this book

Tired of an e-mail BCC list that scrolls off the page, or fiddly and hard-to-manage bulk mailing systems? You need phpList – a high-powered, robust, feature-packed mailing system that will get out of your way and get the job done! You want to know more about phpList? phpList is a popular open source e-mail campaign manager, sporting a powerful web frontend, rich message editor, and an advanced feature set. phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager will guide you from basic installation and setup through management, reporting, and automation of phpList, the world's most popular open source e-mail campaign manager. It also covers advanced customization and configuration of phpList. We start with a basic configuration, and finish with a full-featured e-mail management engine. You will work your way up from basic installation to advanced topics such as bounce automation, user and click-through tracking, and integration with third-party tools such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Blogger. Advanced topics such as securing your installation against spammers, attacks, and vulnerabilities are covered, as well as additional advanced and experimental features offered by phpList. This book is an invaluable guide for any e-mail publisher who wants a robust and powerful engine to manage their small-to-huge e-mail distribution empire.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Examining advanced user/click-tracking statistics


While we can examine both basic-user and click-tracking statistics from the Sent tab on the messages page, we can also use the new statistics page to give us more details.

Extra statistics sidebar link

Once click tracking is enabled, an additional link will appear on your sidebar labeled statistics:

This link will take you to a page (under development) enabling more detailed statistics about user and link tracking:

Overview

The overview page is a useful place to start. It will show you your most recent messages and indicate how many were sent, how many bounced, and how many were viewed:

The viewed counter is a link to the message detail page, which will show you which users viewed the message:

Viewing clicks by URL

From the statistics page, the view clicks by url link will display all the URLs you've used in all your messages. On this page, the total clicks per URL will be indicated:

Clicking on the URL will take you to the URL detail...