Event Classifications: Pardot

Pardot is Salesforce’s B2B marketing automation platform that tracks prospect activities including website visits, email engagement, webinar participation, and event attendance. It filters out low-value system activities.

Event Classes

  • Inbound Activity: Prospect engagement and interactions
  • Outbound Marketing: Marketing communications
  • Disengagement: Unsubscribes and negative engagement
  • Operational: System processing

Event Types

(from type_name field, filtered)

  • Page View: Website visitor tracking (querymap data)
  • Click: Content and email clicks (type 1)
  • View: Content consumption (type 2)
  • Success: Goal completions (type 4)
  • Session: Website session tracking (type 5)
  • Sent: Email delivery (type 6)
  • Open: Email opens (type 11)
  • Unsubscribe Page: Unsubscribe page visits (type 12)
  • Bounced: Email bounces (type 13)
  • Spam Complaint: Spam reports (type 14)
  • Email Preference Page: Preference center visits (type 15)
  • Resubscribed: Resubscription actions (type 16)
  • Click (Third Party): Third-party clicks (type 17)
  • Visit: General visits (type 20)
  • Custom URL click: Custom URL clicks (type 21)
  • Olark Chat: Chat interactions (type 22)
  • Invited to Webinar: Webinar invitations (type 23)
  • Attended Webinar: Webinar attendance (type 24)
  • Registered for Webinar: Webinar registrations (type 25)
  • Social Post Click: Social media clicks (type 26)
  • Video View: Video views (type 27)
  • Event Registered: Event registrations (type 28)
  • Event Checked In: Event check-ins (type 29)
  • Video Conversion: Video conversions (type 30)

Technical Details

Source Field Mappings:

  • event_type: type_name field from visitor_activity table
  • Activity Filtering: Excludes specific activity types:
    • Type 3, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19 (operational/system activities)

Event Class Logic:

IF type IN [12, 13, 14]: // Unsubscribe, Bounce, Spam

    event_class = "Disengagement"

ELSE IF type IN [6, 23]: // Sent, Invited to Webinar

    event_class = "Outbound Marketing"

ELSE:

    event_class = "Inbound Activity"

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