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KCS_Integration
Level 2
March 7, 2018

URL not appearing on filter for Smart Campaign or Smart List

  • March 7, 2018
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Issue Description

You want to measure who clicks a specific link that uses a query string from a landing page, but when you try to use this logic in a smart campaign or smart list, it tells you the URL can’t be found, even though you can see the URL embedded on the landing page.

 

 

 

Issue Resolution
If you are using the link "marketo.com/company/contact/?firstname=test", then you need to seperate the url into the link and the query string. The root domain (Link in the filter/trigger) will be marketo.com/company/contact/ and the query string (from Add Constraint dropdown) will be firstname=test. This will allow you to correctly track the links you are wanting.

 

 

 

Make sure that you have the correct Web Page associated as a constraint as well.

 

 

For a better understanding of what query strings are, they are the parameters that are preceded by the "?" in the url.

 

 

 

 


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SanfordWhiteman
Level 10
March 8, 2018

In general, using Querystring [is] isn't a good practice, because if any search engine adds additional parameters (and they do) the constraint will fail. While in this case you're controlling the link completely, it'll give a false assurance that this will work elsewhere and you should use Querystring [contains] ​instead. (And even within your own site, some analytics libraries can "mark up" your links which would also break ​[is]​.)