We know, sort of, that our mass mailings generate the vast majority of supporters for any of our campaigns. \u00a0And that things like links on websites, Twitter and Facebook are somewhat over-rated in this sense. \u00a0But to prove it — and to find out how people really do come to our campaigns and sign up — I’ve just written some code that allows us to track exactly this.<\/p>\n
Normally, when we tell people about a campaign we give out this code (for example) — I’ve had to break this into 2 lines to make it readable:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/<\/pre>\nsolidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1239<\/pre>\nNow we have the option of adding on a parameter — done like this:<\/span><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/cgi-bin\/<\/pre>\nsolidarityforever\/show_campaign.cgi?c=1239&src=test<\/strong><\/pre>\nThis tells our system that the source<\/strong> of this visit to our campaign is from “test<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n
It’s very important to do the code exactly like that, with no spaces at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n
You can see an example of how we can track this, starting today, here<\/a>. \u00a0Scroll to the very bottom and look at record 4187 (my name). \u00a0See the red text? \u00a0That’s because I used the link ending in “&src=test”.<\/p>\n