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Is it possible to exclude links from tracking

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I am building an app which is utilizing Sendgrid Marketing Email API, with the purpose of sending newsletters. It has a number of links to articles, but also banner ads and other service links. We would obviously like to keep tracking of article links, but exclude other links from affecting the click rate. Is it possible in any way to mark links which we don't wish to add to tracking?

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Lukas Lunow Avatar asked Mar 05 '15 08:03

Lukas Lunow


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Minor thread necromancy to let anyone who gets here via google know that they added an attribute to disable link tracking.

https://sendgrid.com/docs/Classroom/Track/Clicks/click_tracking_html_best_practices.html

Click tracking can be turned off for individual links by including the clicktracking=off attribute inside the anchor of an HTML link before the href. For example, <a clicktracking=off href="http://example.com">link text</a> would not be tracked.

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Michael Ryan Soileau Avatar answered Dec 10 '22 14:12

Michael Ryan Soileau