UTM tracking Google Analytics
The lighbulb lights. This is the missing link that I didn’t understand when I was looking at Google Analytics campaigns . I set one up once but I never understood what it was about.
This does explain why I never could figure out how it worked. I wasn’t using the UTM tracking
I may have to think about using this when I do the setup for the Revit tool. If I send out enquiries with emails or from web posts I can track them back to specific campaigns.
UTM Builder
This is link for GA UTM builder. I’ll need to think about using it.
In the vid below he shows how he uses text expander to add UTM tracker:
Google Analytics on new sites
I saw this video and the 2nd part reminded me on how to add to a site :
The max-drake.cc had the old cr8ive.gf analytics code so I replaced it with a new gtag based on the new analytics setup putting it into the Theme header file. I also did the same with the Datacapture site too.
I tested with GA but maybe it hasn’t triggered yet so I’ll test it tomorrow and see if that works .
UTM Tracking using spreadsheet
I decided to try and test out even though both the sites Cr8ive & datacapture are not registering any analytics data at the moment.
I tried setting up in Excel and concatenating a few elements together so that I got a new string, so I could add them all to make a different link – see image below. I’ll check tomorrow to see if that is working.
I was getting a bit irritated with Excel in that it wont let me paste from browser so doing in Google Sheets instead.
I spent a bit of time setting up spreadsheets for all my sites and clearing GA from old websites that are defunct. Also updating sites to WP5.9 and updating plugins and for all sites new gtags. So hopefully it will all percolate through for me to see if UTM tags will work. They can be quite handy to see if YouTube is getting people to visit sites.
Google Campaign URL Builder
I tried to use the Campaign URL builder to test that instead on the sites but still no active data coming through. I found an article that talked about checking if GA was setup on the site so I tried to use that
Testing if GA was live on sites
I decided to check if sites had GA working and in an article they pointed to GA Checker which I used, nearly all of the sites were working apart from pir2.tk so I had to make sure that the tag was included. So after a crawl over the pages most are active, even the photo sites, so that is pleasing.
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I keep on walking away from this and it irritates me so I come back to it again to see if I’m able to add a UTM tags to some of my YouTube vids so I can see if people are visiting the posts.
Having the new google analytics 4 is a bit confusing, especially with older sites , but hopefully I’ve got them up and running now.
The next part will be to see if any data comes in that I can see my UTM tags on. That will be exciting.
Wednesday, 2nd February– I still can’t seem to have this working, a bit of a pain. Nothing comes through although I’ve created a couple of UTM links and sent them through. Most of the GA for the new sites say no data on dashboard.
Wednesday 30th March.
A while now and there is some analytics functionality working so I will test it again. I used I did a bit of a custom html into revit articles on max-drake.cc and used Campaign URL Builder to setup the url below “https://datacapture.tk?utm_source=websiteArticle&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=PushTrafficToSite20220330&utm_id=PowerKey4Revit” to the link. I’ll see if its used by anyone.
The article here was useful https://agencyanalytics.com/blog/utm-trackinghttps://agencyanalytics.com/blog/utm-tracking
