"that will allow me to track when someone has clicked on a link that I send them in an email."
Just think for a minute what you are asking. There is no special tracking that a link click has come from an email you sent. If you send people to your page, the best you can do is track the IP of anyone/everyone who visits your site. So how are you going to know the came from email, google, or just random? You cannot do this, obviously. You have to have a UNIQUE page that ONLY email users will click on.
So you create a SPECIAL page on your website, that CANNOT be tractored by search engines -- i.e. there is no link to it in the menu of your site. Call the page
www.mysite.com/only-email.htmlOn that page you need only two things --
1. a tracking counter, to see how many people hit the page - see this for example --
www.website-hit-counters.com/www.statcounter.com/www.easycounter.com/FreeCounter3.htmlwww.easycounter.com/ -- and many others
2. Then all you need is a redirect to your main page you want them to visit. NOTE -- You cannot use an HTTP redirect like a 303, it must be done AFTER the hit counter has registered a hit, it can't be done in the head of the document, like most HTTP redirects are done. See these as examples --
http://www.csgnetwork.com/directredirect.htmlwww.cryer.co.uk/resources/javascript/script5.htmwww.codeave.com/javascript/code.asp?u_log=7077www.irt.org/articles/js021/index.htmOnce you have got these 2 things in place, then it will work, but it will not until you sort out the logic.
