INTRO
This method versus the standard
email location tracking method There are two steps in the standard method.
- 1. locating an email's IP address.
- 2. researching that IP.
This strategy has the potential
to be effective, but its limitations include the fact that it frequently lacks
accuracy and necessitates constant effort on your part.
However, in order to put it into
practice, the following steps need to be taken:
- 1. Open the email you need to know where it is.
- 2. You will now need to select Show Original in Gmail/G Suite by pressing the three dots in the upper-right corner of the email.
You will now be able to see the
entire email, including a lot of text that was missing before.
Normally, this would look like
this: you would go to the right website, paste the header (all the text before
the actual email), and the site would look for where the site is.
What's wrong with this strategy?
1. It takes a lot of time to find out where each email is.
2. The data you provide the services that analyze the location of emails can use and sell. Not ideal for email security and confidentiality.
3. This method is rarely accurate because many clients, such as Gmail, do not provide the IP addresses of recipients, which frequently results in inaccurate country and city information.
The Better Way to Track Your Gmail Location:
You don't have to go through all
of these steps if you have a Gmail or G Suite account. Instead, you can just
download the MailTag Chrome extension.
MailTag is primarily an email
tracker that tells people when emails are opened. However, it is also a great
tool for finding the address from which your emails were sent.
It is safer, quicker, and more
accurate.
Why?
1. You are not inserting any data from your email into the website
of another person. MailTag does not have access to your emails' contents.
2. You don't have to rely on a header that can often be misleading
to get accurate information about your recipient's location.
3. You immediately have information about where your email messages
are without having to do anything.
Here is an illustration of the
same recipient, which we are certain to be from Australia because that is where
the business is headquartered.
On the first image, you can see
information from a website where you can paste header information, while on the
bottom, you can see information from MailTag:
Gmail's Location Tracking Advantages:
Apart from simply knowing where a
person is, the most important advantage of tracking their email location is the
insights it provides that can help you improve conversion rates.
By knowing someone's location,
you can better understand their culture and write emails with the appropriate
tone, for example. On the other hand, if you know someone's time zone, you can
better time your emails, which can dramatically increase your follow-up
response rates.
Naturally, there are also some
unusual uses, such as when one of our customers used it to catch his wife
cheating, but that's a different story and not what MailTag is typically used
for.
However, you can also track who
opens your emails with MailTag. And that will be significantly more useful for
many, particularly in the sales and marketing sector.
The Limitations of Email Location
Tracking Naturally, as with any technology, there are some restrictions.
An email's IP address can be used
to quickly find anyone in the world.
Unless, that is, you use a VPN.
If someone opens your email while
connected to a VPN, they might appear to be in another location.
However, the majority of VPN
users do not use a VPN and only use it to unblock restricted streaming
services.
However, knowing about this
restriction is important.
The Ethics of Email Location
Tracking When data from an email is copied to a random, free website, that's
questionable.
In the end, how does that website
generate revenue?
Is it through data sales?
MailTag cannot gather information
from your emails. It wouldn't be available in the Chrome Store if it did.
That's How Gmail Tracks Your
Location Works Email location tracking is possible, but the method that is
shown on the posts with the highest rankings isn't really accurate.
Using MailTag? You can keep track
of when and where recipients open your emails. Try it out for yourself with a
14-day free trial that doesn't require a credit card at sign-up. Simply go to
the Google Chrome Store and download the extension.
If you look at any guides on how
to track the location of Gmail on Google, you will find that they tell you to
get an email header that contains an IP address and then paste it into the
right website. This is great, but it isn't really accurate because most emails
contain IP addresses from clients like Gmail that don't reflect where your
recipient is actually located.
In addition, this conventional strategy takes a long time.
This article is intended solely
for educational purposes without causing any harm.
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