How do you track opens and clicks on text emails only

[Michelle_Tizian]

Does anyone have any idea how to track open emails and link clicks on the text version of the email only? The previous email application that I used to use has this capability and I was wondering if this is available in Marketo.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the follow-up Michelle.

[Michelle_Tizian]

To answer my own question after I did some testing on this today, you can't track clicks on a text version of an email.  I checked this on the campaign stats and email link performance report.  It also shows on this page, on how to set up a text version of an email that you can't track clicks stats. http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000LB9bCAG

[Anonymous]

You should be able to track clicks... Opens cannot be tracked in text-only as Marketo counts an open as loading the images.

Hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

Hello Michelle,
I'm looking to know if Marketo can track clicks on links in text version emails. Did you succeed?
Thanks!

[Michelle_Tizian]

Hi Kim,

I don't think you can track opens for the text version.  But you might be able to track the clicks on links.  I'll see what happens when I send out just an all text version. 

[Anonymous]

Michelle,

Did you ever get an answer on this? With the new text only emails I just sent out one and it shows 0 opens so I'm curious if we can't track this?