Link categories are a useful way to see who is clicking on each type of link in your marketing emails, so you can:
- Understand your individual subscribers' preferences and target future campaigns.
- Understand what kinds of content are most or least popular.
Choosing your link categories
People's behaviour can tell you a lot about their interests. Think about creating link categories that give you some indication of your contact's interest towards particular kinds of products and services. When they click on these links, you're able to automatically capture this interest and follow up with them.
Some example link categories might include:
- Social media - So you can tag the links to your Facebook and Twitter pages, and identify contacts who are likely to be active on social media themselves.
- Website - General - For tagging general links to your website.
- Website - Product X - For tagging links that relate to a particular product or service that you offer, so you can identify contacts who might be interested in it.
How to setup link categories
1. Click on | Settings | .
2. Under the "Data management" heading, click | Link categories |.
3. Click | Add new link category |.
4. Name your link category, and optionally add some comments to help you remember what this category will be used for.
5. Click | Add |.
How to use link categories in your emails
1. Create your email message.
2. Highlight the text that you'd like to turn into a link.
3. Click the "Insert/ edit link" icon.
4. Select the type of link you want to add:
- Use a Page link if you want to link to an external web page.
- Use a Publication link if you want to link to a Horizon web landing page.
- Use a document link if you want to link to a document that's stored in the Horizon file store.
5. Add the web address ("URL") for your page link, or select the Horizon publication (if using a publication link) or file (if using a document link)
6. Select the appropriate link category from the dropdown menu:
5. Click | Save |.
How to identify subscribers' interests
Once you have added a link category and used it in one or more campaigns, you can create a rule group to identify contacts who have (or haven't) clicked on that link category within a defined period of time.
