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Originally Posted by carol
Can you then continue to track their path through the site, or only their entry page (page.php)? Most of the email service companies (like Constant Contact and Vertical Response) can tell you who clicked through which links in the email. But, they can't tell you where the visitor went after the landing page.
If you wanted to continue to track their path, would you have to attach the id to every link on each page within the site? Or is there something simpler that I'm missing? Thanks!
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That's because 3rd parties such as CC & VR do not have access to your server logs.
For so long as the visitor remains on your site, each page request by that user will bear the same IP Address. Since the initial page request will bear the ID parameter, it's simply a matter of collecting all page requests bearing the same IP Address as the one on the page request bearing a given ID. And, as the log records contain a Time/Date stamp, one can track the specific path that the visitor followed.