Custom Redirects
Nelson Eisenmann
Custom redirects are your go-to tool when it comes to providing information and comparing the effectiveness of different marketing campaigns in Pardot. If you opt to use a custom redirect, the information you gain can be processed into actionable tasks.
Custom redirects track and measure the following:
- Links on your website
- Links on social media
- Third-party sites
- Banner ad clicks
You don’t want to attach a custom redirect behind every link, but there are a few occasions when creating Pardot custom redirects can return with positive results.
Let’s take a look at how custom redirects can be use in your marketing initiatives.
Ways to Use Custom Redirects
Monitor prospect activity
When a prospect clicks on a Pardot custom redirect, it shows up on that prospect’s activity history and is displayed in the Pardot activity section. This powerful tool essentially provides your sales rep better context for nurturing their prospects when they convert to an MQL.
Optimize your links
When you can look at hard data and understand where prospects are clicking, what may have drove them to click, and the types of offers that are resulting in those clicks – it’s an important feat to take advantage of. With this valuable information, you can begin to build from that data to optimize your marketing operations.
Build a poll
One of the best ways to engage and gain insight with your prospects is creating a quick and easy poll. You can create a short survey with custom redirects by attaching it to buttons or links used for voting and they will automatically record the clicks on each link.
Gain social media insight
When you promote content through multiple social media channels, you will ask yourself: Is my content irrelevant or will my audience value this? Get a high-level grasp on social platforms by measuring which of your social sites receives the most traffic.
If you’re posting the same content on all of your social media channels, place a separate custom redirect behind each. As a result, you will be able to draw further conclusions about your content and what is converting the best.
Test your CTA
As we mentioned earlier in our guide, your call to action has to be clear and straightforward. To take it to the next step, you can place custom redirects behind each of your CTAs to measure its progress.
Which copy is more effective? Are you placing your CTA where it may confuse website visitors? Adding custom redirects to your CTA can help you answer these questions and give you visibility to what is working the best.
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