'tracker' on websites? (web design question)

[Nikolas]

And, yes, I'm preparing my next site, a web shop.

And I want to send emails all around people who might be interested in what I'm selling (music scores) and invite them.

And I would LOVE to be able to tell who responded in my e-mail and went to my newly made website. And also be able to follow around what they did.

As far as I can tell I could send individual e-mails with slightly different links to each one (like for example www.mywebshop.com/A1 and then www.mywebshop.com/A2 and so on, but probably more complicated). This way MY website would be able to tell, from a database, who cam from what link. Right?

And then it's the follow the steps that person took. Where he went, how he did what, etc...

From a marketing perspective this is of outmost importance I think!

So, how to do it? Cause we are talking about MANY e-mail, so I guess there should be something automated to do what I'm asking, right?

Any help is much appreciated. And thanks ^_^

[Calin Leafshade]

you'd use a token system.

So yuo send out each email with an invidiual 'token' so the link would look something like:

http://www.thethoughtradar.com/spam.php?token=12345

then you can follow that token as a session id.