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Roxann_McGlump1
Level 5
October 6, 2017

Email Clicks on Delivery But No Matching Web Page Visits Logged

  • October 6, 2017
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Issue

You see email clicks in a lead's activity history but no corresponding web page visits to the Munchkin-tracked page. The clicks happen immediately upon delivery of the email, or sometimes even before the delivery is logged.


Solution

Issue Resolution

This is usually caused by email security software on the receiving email server. The security software tests the links to make sure they are not malicious and this causes Marketo to log a click activity for the email. Because the security software does not actually open the web page in the browser, there is no web page visit logged.

 

Your emails are more likely to be link tested if your sender reputation is low. For more information on link testing, see the following documents.

Understanding a Spike in Click Activity

Cracking the Inbox Code: Barracuda

 

 


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11 replies

Dan_Stevens_
Level 10
November 14, 2017

Great insight, Sandy.  For the past couple of months, we've been using this approach to eliminate false positives - where we include a "visited web page" as a choice within the "change program status" flow step (after a 15 minute wait step, since it can take time for Marketo to log that activity after the click):

But like you said, if anyone has cookies disabled, do-not-track enabled, or opted out of specific tracking cookies (per upcoming GDPR legislation), this won't work.

So it looks like we're back to square one as the approach mentioned in this thread doesn't even appear to be a reliable solution to weed out link scanners.