https://www.google.com/search?q=kyledavidgroup+page2&oq=kyledavidgroup+page2&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l4.4703j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Why are my referral tracking links showing up as indexed pages in Google Searches for this site? (Link above is to show that they are showing up)
Google will pickup UTM and other params under some circumstances, for instance if they are used in links. To prevent this:
Have rel canonical on all pages (with no utm)
In robots.txt you can disallow indexing of utm with:
Disallow UTM paramater indexing in Google Search Console
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In the past, with older Google Analytics accounts and properties I was able to use a Custom Report on a View to show a table of Full Referral URLs.
But with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) I can no longer have Views, so I'm at a loss how I can show Full Referral URLs? I can show the Referral Source (domain name only) but I'd prefer to see the full Referral Path.
Any ideas how I can go about this?
Thank you.
Closest I can find is to use the Explore tab to create a new Exploration with the following settings:
Variables
Dimensions: Page referrer
Metrics: Active users
Tab Settings
rows: Page referrer
show rows: 500 (optional)
values: Active users
cell type: Heat map (optional)
filters: (exclude any URL patterns here)
Then minimize the Variables and Settings panels.
This will give you a long table of full referrer URLs along with the number of users that came from there. In my case most are domain names, but a handful are full URLs pointing to a page.
It remains to be seen if this can be done more easily or more comprehensively.
I need to track posts on Instagram which lead to my site. Is it possible to do with Google Analytics?
You can do this with the help of UTM Parameters, for example by adding the name of the post or a reference in the utm_campaign or utm_content.
Here’s a link for a test post from social to your website:
www.yourwebsite.com?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post_name&utm_content=post_content
I am bit confused, and need little help regarding UTM tracking parameters.
Standard syntax of UTM url is:
http://www.example.com/?utm_source=adsite&utm_campaign=adcampaign.
Lets say I embed this url as a link in my page. User clicks this link. Link is pointing to my website.
All utm parameters would reach to my website. How do they will reach to Google analytics website.
My guess is, Analytics code and js intercept all link clicks and extract UTM params and then let user defined click handler work with the click.
Could someone with right expertise would help me?.
Thank you very much for your time, really appreciated.
The UTM require following mandatory parameters:
http://www.example.com/?utm_source=adsite&utm_medium=admedium
utm_source and utm_medium are mandatory.
utm_campaign is not mandatory even if the documentation says otherwise.
Google Analytics automatically collects these parameters and automatically removes them from the URL so in Google Analytics you will see the URLs without parameters and the source / medium of the UTM.
I use google cse as my site search.
Google support page: support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012264
Take this example: www.google.com?hl=en&q=xxx. So the Query Parameter is q. And my site is with google cse, the query action will direct to url like this: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=xxx&q=xxx...#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=%23C&gsc.page=1
My Google Analytics report cannot get query words from this case.
Google Analytics can get the word only on directly enter the url like this http://site?q=xxx.
But I use google cse instead of myself site's search.
How can I set the correct settings ?
Thanks!
I have been having a similar problem and I think you must be using:
<gcse:searchbox-only> and <gcse:searchresults-only>
If you are then you have to customise the javascript code segment with the resultsURL element.
resultsUrl URL The URL of the results page. (Default is the Google-hosted page.)
From Custom Search Element Control API.
<gcse:searchbox-only resultsUrl="http://www.yourWeb.com"></gcse:searchbox-only>
I'm new to google analytics and I'm a little confused on how to get an unpaid campaign up and runnning. I'm making the campaign in order to track links to a page from different sources (website buttons, emails, newsletters, etc.). What I'm trying to do is set something up in GA so that I can track how people are getting to a specified page. I've been reading this as well:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en&ref_topic=1032998
Do I have to create the campaign in google analytics (and if so where) or do I just apply the appropriate campaign/tracking tags to the links I need tracked and it automatically creates it? Also, how would this work with emails?
Thanks for any help!
Essentially, you will build the campaign tracking URL in URL Builder and put those links in your email, newsletter, etc. Once visitors start to click the links via the email, a campaign will be created under Acquisition > Campaigns.
You do not need create campaigns at Google Analytics: when you tagged campaign manually or at URL builder, your campaign data(source name,campaigh name and others) will be categorized by Google Analytics automatically.
GA parses tags at your links and save data about you campaigns.