Comments on: Common Problems (and Solutions) With URL Tagging and Tracking http://www.ppchero.com/common-problems-and-solutions-with-url-tagging-and-tracking/ Heroic Feats of Pay Per Click Management Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Carrie http://www.ppchero.com/common-problems-and-solutions-with-url-tagging-and-tracking/comment-page-1/#comment-51958 Carrie Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:33:16 +0000 http://www.ppchero.com/?p=3856#comment-51958 @Matt Thanks for your comment. It is amazing how much time is spent on this kind of thing. I've been praying for a canonical tag for this kind of tracking! My main issues are tracking with search engines outside of Google. My issue is not with gclid, but when I combine call tracking parameters with the &utm code. By having my call tracking parameter before the &utm, I was stripping all tracking info in Google. @Matt Thanks for your comment. It is amazing how much time is spent on this kind of thing. I’ve been praying for a canonical tag for this kind of tracking!

My main issues are tracking with search engines outside of Google. My issue is not with gclid, but when I combine call tracking parameters with the &utm code. By having my call tracking parameter before the &utm, I was stripping all tracking info in Google.

]]> By: Matt http://www.ppchero.com/common-problems-and-solutions-with-url-tagging-and-tracking/comment-page-1/#comment-51955 Matt Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:06:41 +0000 http://www.ppchero.com/?p=3856#comment-51955 Hey Thanks for that nice post Carrie. I've been experiencing similar problems using 2 additional parameters. For now, I've kept these 2 parameters before any Google Analytics tag but have not had any problem going that way. If you think about it, using auto-tagging in Adwords works the same way by simply appending gclid to each destination URL used, which means that your custom parameters will stay before. I am so waiting for web analytics solutions to come out with universal tracking methods... :) I still can't believe the amount of time we all spend on these so-not interesting issues. Hey

Thanks for that nice post Carrie.
I’ve been experiencing similar problems using 2 additional parameters. For now, I’ve kept these 2 parameters before any Google Analytics tag but have not had any problem going that way. If you think about it, using auto-tagging in Adwords works the same way by simply appending gclid to each destination URL used, which means that your custom parameters will stay before.

I am so waiting for web analytics solutions to come out with universal tracking methods… :) I still can’t believe the amount of time we all spend on these so-not interesting issues.

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