{"id":1741,"date":"2018-10-23T01:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T01:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrateprovideo.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2021-06-22T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:23:26","slug":"does-activecampaign-site-track-retroactively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integratepro.com\/blog\/does-activecampaign-site-track-retroactively\/","title":{"rendered":"Does ActiveCampaign Site Track Retroactively?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AdMpXzNCmW0?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 422px;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Active Campaign site tracking retroactively.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we&#8217;re going to cover what happens when you have tracking installed and a visitor isn&#8217;t already on your list, does Active Campaign create a contact? And secondly, what happens when someone joins your list has previously visited your site to site tracking work retroactively? To accomplish that, we&#8217;re going to basically do some experiments, so let&#8217;s dive right in.<\/p>\n<p>To start with, we want to make sure Active Campaign is installed on your site. In this case, I have it on here. And we want to force the email address into the tracking manually to see if it&#8217;s going to work retroactively. So let me just show you the source code as it is right now.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the Active Campaign tracking, I&#8217;m going to force my email address in here and I want to make sure that email addresses not in active campaign already. So let me go look inside there. So there&#8217;s no one with that email address in there. So I&#8217;m going to hard code that in right now as we speak. And now I&#8217;m going to go ahead and just refresh this page to show you that my email address is now in.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m gonna refresh the page, I&#8217;m going to view the source code to see that it&#8217;s still in there. And there it is. So now, do I have that user in there, refresh this page, look for that same user now. So that answers that Active Campaign does not create a user if they&#8217;re not in there, but they&#8217;re being tracked. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to keep track of the time because the next thing I&#8217;m going to do is I&#8217;m going to add myself to Active Campaign and then visit the site again. So 7:46 right now, I&#8217;m going to pause for about four, five minutes, come back, create the user and visit the site. And I want to know if my 7:45 or 7:46 visit was registered or not.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s been a few minutes. Now, what I want to do is check just a sanity check to make sure I&#8217;m not in here still. And this time, I&#8217;m going to add myself in as a contact.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s go see if I have any tracking. So currently, no tracking. And again, I&#8217;m going to wait five more minutes just to make sure it doesn&#8217;t get added retroactively then I&#8217;ll go visit the site. So as it stands right now, there is no tracking email, I&#8217;ve added myself I previously visited the site.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ll wait till 7:55.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so we&#8217;re back just for fun. One more time. Let&#8217;s see if tracking is kicked in. So nothing there. Now, I&#8217;m gonna go visit the page and it has my email address embedded, so this time tracking should kick into. Let&#8217;s go ahead and refresh that page.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to refresh this. And of course, there might be a little bit of lag. There we go. So it picked up me and actually my previous and I went into some automation. So what it looks like is it only starts tracking even if you already have their email address once they&#8217;ve been added to the system. Now, just to be absolutely sure, I&#8217;m going to wait five more minutes and see if it&#8217;s going to put in some time retroactively. So I&#8217;ll be back at eight o&#8217;clock. So that&#8217;s for minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, let&#8217;s start a little bit early and not wait till eight. So first thing is I&#8217;m going to go back here and just refresh just to make sure no new activities have been recorded or any old activity.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, four minutes ago, I visited the site and it did not capture previous visits. And then just to be sure, let&#8217;s visit or refresh this page one more time. 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