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  • April 6, 2023
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Hi. We are sending marketing emails and capturing UTM string. I have few questions related to that:

1. When I'm making report in workspace the numbers I'm getting in marketing channel-Email are too less comparing to page URL link instances number.

2. Also we are sending emails through Eloqua and numbers in Eloqua are way higher then Marketing Channel Report.

3. The users are clicking on the link provided in email and then coming to the site. Here Eloqua is measuring click through's. What should I use dimension value against Email Report?(will it be Occurrences or Visits)?

Can you please guide what can I look for and what I'm missing? Thank you.

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Best answer by yuhuisg

What numbers are you comparing? Visits, Unique Visitors, something else? It might help to show screenshots of the report(s) that you're referring to.

Also, recall that Marketing Channels are evaluated with every hit. Consider a visitor who follows this journey in the same visit (i.e. no 30-minute break between each hit):

Email (Eloqua) link --> browse website --> Facebook link --> browse website --> search on Bing --> browse website

This visitor will have 3 Marketing Channels (email, social network, natural search) associated with that one visit, and the Marketing Channel dimension will default to reporting the last one, i.e. natural search.

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Krishna_Musku
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Krishna_MuskuCommunity Advisor
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April 6, 2023

Check if the link is working fine or not? If not, that might be the reason causing too many occurrences. If you want to look at the user level data, maybe look at visitor or unique visitor metrics, that will help!

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    GV16Author
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    April 6, 2023

    Link is working.

    yuhuisg
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    yuhuisgCommunity AdvisorAccepted solution
    Community Advisor
    April 7, 2023

    What numbers are you comparing? Visits, Unique Visitors, something else? It might help to show screenshots of the report(s) that you're referring to.

    Also, recall that Marketing Channels are evaluated with every hit. Consider a visitor who follows this journey in the same visit (i.e. no 30-minute break between each hit):

    Email (Eloqua) link --> browse website --> Facebook link --> browse website --> search on Bing --> browse website

    This visitor will have 3 Marketing Channels (email, social network, natural search) associated with that one visit, and the Marketing Channel dimension will default to reporting the last one, i.e. natural search.

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      GV16Author
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      April 7, 2023

      Here is the screenshot of page query string parameters which are used during email campaign:

       

      If you can see page query Instances are around 6M. Now this is Marketing channel report during same period:

       

      There is huge difference between numbers 

      Jennifer_Dungan
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      Jennifer_DunganCommunity Advisor and Adobe Champion
      Community Advisor and Adobe Champion
      April 7, 2023

      You are comparing "instances" to "visits".. that could be accounting for a lot of the discrepancy...

       

      Let's look at a simple example... all from your email:

       

      1. User opens email (there may be multiple links in that email)

      2. User clicks on link 1 (marketing channel is set for the visit, instance of the utm is also tracked)

      3. User goes back to that email, clicks on the next link

      4. User is still part of the same visit, those numbers won't increase, but you will be tracking a new UTM instance

       

      If you want compare visits to visits, you could create a segment that looks for "Campaign Query String Instances" to exist, then stack that with Visits metric

       

       

      As @yuhuisg mentioned, the user may be performing multiple actions in the same visit... email links, social media, natural search, etc... your Marketing Channel, will default to the last touch.

       

      On top of that, your Marketing Channels have a longer expiry (it could be a week, it could be 30 days, it all depends on your set up.. you can also control which Marketing Channels don't overwrite previous values... by default, direct traffic is set to not override, but if your Email channel was set up like that (you would have to check), it might in theory not be set correctly...

       

       

      The reasoning for direct and internal to not override is that you want your actioned campaigns and drivers to maintain their values, that would included emails... but it's worth checking to be sure this is set up correctly)

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