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Link click tracking — see who clicks the links you send

5 min read · Updated 2026-10-09

“Link click tracking — see who clicks the links you send” is a Direct University lesson from Direct REI, the AI cold-outreach platform and CRM for real estate investors. Turn on Track link clicks for an email or text campaign and every link goes out as a short tracking link: see how many people clicked, which links, and who — on the campaign, the contact card, the CRM and Analytics.

Replies tell you who wrote back. Clicks tell you who's interested but hasn't written yet — the buyer who opened the listing three times, the seller who looked at your offer page. Link click tracking counts those clicks for your email and text campaigns.

Turn it on for a campaign

  1. Open the Email or Texting page and pick the campaign in the sequence editor.
  2. In the campaign's settings, tick Track link clicks. It saves with the rest of the settings.
  3. That's it. From the next message on, every link in that campaign's messages — the first message and every follow-up — goes out as a short tracking link like directrei.com/r/a1B2c3D4e5. When someone clicks it, the click is counted and they land on the real page instantly.

It's off by default, campaign by campaign. Messages that already went out keep their original links — only messages sent after you turn it on are tracked.

Show words instead of an address (email). In an email you can write a link as [See the property](https://yourbiz.com/12-oak-ln). The reader sees See the property as a clickable link instead of a tracking address, and the email goes out with a formatted version alongside the plain text. Plain links work too — the reader just sees the short tracking address. In a text it shows as See the property: (link).

What's tracked — and what isn't

Where you see the clicks

The click rate is of the people who were sent a tracked link, how many clicked one — each person counts once, however many times they clicked.

Use your own link domain (optional)

Links on your own domain look more trustworthy to readers and to spam filters than a shared one. Open Settings → Email → Link tracking domain and connect a subdomain, like links.yourbusiness.com:

Removing your link domain breaks links already sent on it. New links go back to directrei.com, but a message that went out with links.yourbusiness.com/r/… stops working once that domain is removed. Links on the shared directrei.com address keep working.
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