Royal Deer Design » Tracking Web Traffic http://www.royaldeerdesign.com Web Design Company Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:08:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Tracking sources of traffic with Google Analytics http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2011/06/tracking-sources-of-traffic-with-google-analytics/ http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/2011/06/tracking-sources-of-traffic-with-google-analytics/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:07:59 +0000 http://coot.arvixe.com/~royald/?p=2999 The most efficient way of tracking traffic from referring sites via Google Analytics is by tagging the traffic with specific variables that are recognized by Google Analytics.

All you have to do is attach those three variables to the URL: utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign.

For example: http://www.royaldeerdesign.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cost-per-click& utm_campaign=June2011

Google provides even a tool URL Builder that can be found here.

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