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Campaign tracking in GA4: How to ensure your links are properly tagged

Martech

In this article, we’ll discuss the common reasons for miscategorization in GA4 and tips to make sure your marketing campaign links are properly tagged and tracked. cpc, banner, email). For example, if your URL has utm_source=blogger and utm_medium=cpc , it will appear as “Paid Social” in GA4.

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Understanding Where Your Traffic is Coming From with UTM Tracking Codes

DAGMAR Marketing

UTM strings are tags or add-ons you put at the end of URLs you want to track. Campaign Medium:* Another required component for identifying the medium your URL was used upon such as: email, CPC, or some other method of sharing. So what are UTM strings anyway? This is a required component and appears as: utm_source=googlemybusiness.

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Guide to programmatic campaign optimization

Choozle

If cost-per-click (CPC). Create a whitelist with sites garnering your desired CPC and/or a blocklist with inventory that’s outside of your desired CPC range. Optimize toward supply vendors that are garnering your desired CPC. Remove browsers yielding a high CPC. If cost per completed view (CPCV) or completion rate.

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10 PPC Metrics You Should Monitor in Google AdWords

LeadSquared

When I started running ads, the number of metrics available to me in AdWords were overwhelming – estimated bid, quality score, CPC, CPM and at least a 100 more things. Eventually, it’s obvious that a lower CPC = lower cost of conversion and high-quality clicks = higher quality leads. So, here they are. and convert.

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How to Easily Track Your Offline Campaigns

Ontraport

It’s important to use a “ noindex meta tag ” on these custom landing pages so that they’re not visible to search engines. To use a noindex meta tag, add < meta name=“robots” content=”noindex” > to the HEAD section of the pages you are going to create for these campaigns. Name: Product name, promo code name.

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Connecting the UTM Dots

Bluetext

utm_medium: The advertising or marketing medium, for example: cpc, banner, email newsletter. If you’re manually tagging paid keyword campaigns, you should also use utm_term to specify the keyword. that is sending traffic to your property, for example: google, newsletter4, billboard. for a product.

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Custom Reports: Measuring Lead Generation Conversions with Google Analytics

NuSpark Consulting

For example, “Google” is a source, “organic” and “cpc (cost per click or paid search)” are mediums. You can measure back links from SEO, guest blog links, social media sites, banner ads on enewsletters or websites, etc. With proper tagging, this data can be sliced and diced further. Keyword Conversions- SEO.