We’ve been aiding a big ecommerce consumer with migrating to Google Analytics 4 from Common Analytics and bettering their marketing campaign attribution to make sure they’ve correct reporting on every of the mediums and channels they’re placing to make use of, together with influencers. The perfect technique of doing that is to make sure each distributed hyperlink to their on-line retailer has a UTM querystring appended to it for Google Analytics to seize the marketing campaign data related to the go to.
I constructed a pleasant UTM Querystring app to do that on Martech Zone, however it doesn’t retailer any data… which your workforce might need to. So, for firms who want to arrange higher and standardize their Google Analytics Campaigns, I created a Google Sheet the place they may log all of their campaigns and make sure the data handed of their UTM Querystring is standardized. Right here’s a rundown of the options:
- Marketing campaign Date – Should you double-click, you’ll get a pleasant calendar pop-up that can assist you with the date.
- Vacation spot URL – A area to enter the vacation spot URL. You’ll be able to also have a querystring in it and the output will incorporate any of these parameters.
- Marketing campaign Title – The marketing campaign identify you need to be handed to Google Analytics.
- Marketing campaign Medium – A dropdown to pick your medium. This references the My Mediums tab under, so you’ll be able to add, delete, or enter the dropdown as you’d like. The present record is the usual channels at the moment listed in Google Analytics 4.
- Marketing campaign Supply – A dropdown to pick the platform you’re sending from. After all, you could possibly additionally replace this record utilizing the My Sources tab sheet.
- Marketing campaign Time period – A dropdown to pick the objective of your marketing campaign. After all, you could possibly additionally replace this record utilizing the My Phrases tab sheet.
- Marketing campaign Content material – A area to enter the content material or provide of your marketing campaign.
Needless to say many firms standardize the usage of these parameters otherwise. That’s why I’ve the referenced tab the place you’ll be able to enter no matter data you need.
The output Marketing campaign URL is correctly formatted, trims any pointless house off every parameter, adjusts all of the entries to lowercase, and correctly encodes the parameters to be used in a URL.
Fairly than make an unlimited method for the output URL, you’ll discover that I’ve some hidden columns that show every variable, after which the method concatenates all of the fields. I did this simply to make it simpler to troubleshoot and for customers who aren’t as savvy with formulation to have the ability to see the way it was constructed.
Be happy to repeat this Google Sheet to your individual account on your personal use. Simply choose File > Make a Copy and you’ll copy this to your individual Google Workspace occasion.
Should you want to obtain and work with the file regionally in Excel, pay attention to one limitation: it can solely work offline on Microsoft Workplace for Home windows. Excel for Mac doesn’t acknowledge the =ENCODEURL() operate in Excel, so the method will produce an error. That is true of Office365 on-line as properly. Fairly loopy that Microsoft hasn’t obtained that useful at this level!
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