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Campaign Tracking Basics

  • October 8, 2015
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Hello! I've been using Marketo since July and setting up an online advertising campaign for the first time. Our ad is going to run in an email newsletter once a week through the end of the year. There is also a corresponding print ad with a vanity URL. In Salesforce I set up a Parent campaign and then subcampaigns for each week the ad will run.  In Marketo, I was going to set up a separate program for each weekly run as well, and one for the print ad with the vanity URL.

  • Is this the right approach to setting up these campaigns for tracking purposes to see results by week?
  • Do I need a separate link for each week's ad?
  • I don't understand how to use Google Analytics tracking code in Marketo. I've been doing research but it's too much detailed info I don't have time to dig into. I just need the basics of how to track these campaigns through to Salesforce.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. We're hiring a Digital Marketing Manager at our St. Pete, FL office! I obviously need help!

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Best answer by Kristen_Malkov1

Hi Pia,

I think your approach with separate programs and campaigns is spot on for reporting individually.

I would create a separate link for each week's ad, although you could easily just alter the UTM parameters so that it reflect's the corresponding ad. No need to go and create a TON of new links.

In case you want to dive into it, here is the Google Analytics URL builder. Google Analytics URL Builder

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October 8, 2015

Hi Pia,

I think your approach with separate programs and campaigns is spot on for reporting individually.

I would create a separate link for each week's ad, although you could easily just alter the UTM parameters so that it reflect's the corresponding ad. No need to go and create a TON of new links.

In case you want to dive into it, here is the Google Analytics URL builder. Google Analytics URL Builder

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Anonymous
October 9, 2015

Thanks Kristen! How/where do I alter the UTM parameters? Do you mean just create one google analytics URL and then just modify it for each campaign? For example, the first one runs on 10/15, so I generated the following:

pages.yourmembership.com/pig.html?utm_source=asae&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=pig&utm_content=10-15

And each subsequent week I could just change the content piece to 10-22, then the following week to 10-29 as follows?

pages.yourmembership.com/pig.html?utm_source=asae&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=pig&utm_content=10-22

pages.yourmembership.com/pig.html?utm_source=asae&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=pig&utm_content=10-29

just want to make sure I'm getting this right. Thanks again!!

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Anonymous
October 9, 2015

Also, I'm going to sound really ignorant here, but how do I capture the generated link info for each campaign?

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