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user795918

Reputation: 65

Using non Google Analytics tag in URL alongside regular Google Analytics tags

I'm having some issues with Google Analytics URL parameters. Prviously I've built URLs with the Google Analytics URL Builder. these have enabled me to track where visitors to my site have been coming from, how successful various marketing campaigns have been etc.

Recently, I've started using another tag in the URL, one which has nothing to do with Google Analytics, but acts to alter the telephone number on my site when the visitor arrives on it. For example, I'll add &ctcc=adwords onto the end of my tracking URL, and a specified phone number will appear on my site when the user comes through so I can track how many calls my adwords spend has generated.

However, when I've been using this ctcc code, Google Analytics no longer seems to be tracking the traffic numbers to my site :(

Any idea how I can incorporate the two parameters into the URl, and ensure that they both work as expected?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Greg
Greg

Reputation: 781

It looks like this is a problem with how your server is redirecting traffic with a ctcc query parameter. Look at the following request and its response headers:

Request

Response

So the ctcc parameter is used in some server side tracking (as best as I can tell), and the server is set up to redirect & strip ctcc whenever it gets a request with ctcc. Not being familiar with the system in use, I can't provide details, but you need to reconfigure the redirects to stop changing & into ;. It's the replacement of ampersands with semicolons that is messing up your GA data.

Upvotes: 1

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