Can’t grab UTM info from GA

Hi Sylvain,

I am not sure what you mean by “However how can I grab this info not from the URL but from the Google Analytics data?”. Utm_campaign, utm_source and all the other utm_ parameters are the native parameters used in Google Analytics for tracking.

For example, if you sharing a link in Twitter simply mode your URL to https://www.apptamin.com/get-your-video/?utm_source=Twitter_Example1 so you would capture if someone comes to your webpage clicking that link. I am not sure if this answers your question but feel free to write back to me if you still have question.

Hi Haktan,

Thanks for your answer. What I’m wondering is: is it possible to get that info (the source) even if it’s not in the URL?

Not all links from twitter have the ?utm_source in their URL, right? Yet Google Analytics knows they come from Twitter. Or am I mistaken?

It seems that if I only can know where a visitor/prospect comes from if there is a utm_source in the URL he used, I’ll only have data on a very small numbers of them. Hence my question.

Let me know if that makes more sense.

Thank you!

Hi Sylvain,

To my knowledge, GA only tracks if there is utm_ parameters attached to the URL. I do not think it checks the REFERRER to populate utm_source if it is not provided in the URL. That’d be really cool if it did though. Second, Even though, you would get the utm_source from GA, you would not be able to associate it with the prospect as the data in GA is completely (or almost) anonymous.

So, to answer for your question, unfortunately HandL UTM Grabber can’t get the info from GA. It only allows you to capture the UTMs as long as they are present in the URL and access them whenever you need it -on the same domain- (using client’s COOKIE).

Let me know if you have another question,

Thanks,

Haktan

OK, thank you for taking the time to break it down for me.

Glad to help, good luck!