Derek_Vansant1

I trust you that there's no direct connection, but there seems to be some correlation. Every time I have tracked text and html links separately and analyzed suspicious clicks they tend to be from the text version. That said, thank you, you've confirmed that this is not a definitive approach for sniffing out bots and it seems there may never be one. I tend to lean on downstream metrics like web page clicks and form fills to avoid the issues with email click-throughs. I avoid using clicks in scoring and triggers as well.    ... View more

I've noticed that bot clicks tend to occur on the text version of emails. Anyone know whether excluding clicks on the text version of emails is a viable approach? Text version clicks can easily be identified by adding ?text to the urls on the text versions. ... View more