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Jaime_Servaes
Jaime_Servaes
Level 3
March 14, 2017
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GA UTM tracking on email links

  • March 14, 2017
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So from what I can tell Marketo doesn't automatically add the GA UTM parameters to email links.  If that is true, does anyone have a recommendation on the quickest way to add these to emails? I really don't want to have to manually tag every link in an email.  So can I use tokens or some other cool tool do to this for me?

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    Grégoire_Miche2
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Level 10
    March 14, 2017

    Hi Jaime,

    This is true. There are quite a few ideas on the community to vote for on this.

    The easiest way to add UTMs in emails depends on which versions of the editor you are using.

    If you are using v1 emails, there is no simple solutions. You will have to add UTMs manually on each <a> tag you add to your editable zones. For the non editable ones, you can use tokens that you hard code to the template.

    If you are using V2 templates, the best way is to add UTM's a variables in the email for your CTA modules, then simply fill out the variables when you create the email.

    Read more here: Email 2.0 Hack - UTM Parameters as local variables

    -Greg

      Josh_Hill13
      Josh_Hill13
      Level 10
      March 15, 2017

      Others have used Tokens for this as well, but that still requires some level of work to have the URL string setup.

      The basic way is to use Concatenate in an Excel sheet and then paste the links into each email.

      Grégoire_Miche2
      Grégoire_Miche2
      Level 10
      June 15, 2018

      Hi Josh,

      The limitation with tokens is that, in case you are using modular v2 templates, you never know in advance how many CTAs you will have in you email and there can be many, driving to an inflation in the number of tokens.

      The way we set this up is with Variables, which have a token as a default value, especially for global (email-wide) variables.

      -Greg

        Yanir_Calisar2
        Yanir_Calisar2
        Level 2
        June 12, 2018

        @Jaime Servaes​ @Grégoire Michel​ @Josh Hill​

        Check out this UTM Builder for Marketo extension: UTM Builder for Marketo

        Once you install it - whenever you're editing a url on the email editor you'll see a widget opens up with UTM fields to append to the original URL.

        You can also use tokens.

        I'd love to hear your feedback.

        Grégoire_Miche2
        Grégoire_Miche2
        Level 10
        June 14, 2018

        Hi Yanir,

        Nice one.

        We usually set this up with some variables in the email template. Some have a template scope, some have a module scope and some have a fixed value (utm_medium=email).

        But I find your widget very interesting for people who do not have the possibility to adapt their email templates this way, for instance because they use a Marketo starter template and /or do not have the development skills not the possibility to hire a developper.

        -Greg

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