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Google Analytics UTM tracking parameters, what they are, and how to use them in digital advertising.
UTM allows us to tag URLs with information about the source from which the user is coming to our website.
Urchin Tracking Module (UTM). Urchin was a software analytics company that has introduced URL tagging for analytics and reporting purposes. In 2005 Urchin Software Corporation was bought by Google, and based on its technology, Google was able to build a new analytics product called Google Analytics.
Tagging is nothing else than adding new parameters (key=value) to the page URL after the question mark “?”. In the case of Google Analytics URL can be tagged by parameters like:
Example Google Analytics tagged URL
https://www.example.com/?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&utm_term=&utm_content=&dclid=
Before we proceed to set up our campaign, let us quickly discuss what values we should assign to each of the UTM parameters.
Source describes the source of the campaign traffic like a platform or website.
The text describes the name of the campaign. Don’t use any special characters.
An optional parameter, helpful when we have multiple ad variants, and we’d like to check how each variant performed. Recommended to use together with the Dynamic Creatives.
The term is mostly used by Google Ads to pass keyword/term. If we would need an additional parameter for even more granular reporting in our display programmatic campaigns.
ID is an advanced option; instead of using the parameters listed above, we could use an ID key. The problem is that we would need to upload a CSV file with the mapping list of the key-values. If we make a mistake, our data might be corrupted permanently (except you use GA360, it is not a problem to reverse changes).
Note
All keys and values should be always lower case. Do not mix upper case and lower case. In some cases, you might generate a terrible mess in the reporting.
Landing page URL suffix, is a term defining part of the URL containing tracking key-value parameters only. Many systems like Google Marketing Platform allows us to set landing page URL suffix in a separate field. The advantage is that you don’t have to append tracking suffix to each ad.
Note
128 characters is the maximal length of the landing page URL suffix in Google Campaign Manager and DV360.
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