Tagging URLs Linkbuilding and anchor links
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Hi,
I am going to publish a press release on a number of different websites. First and foremost, I want to build anchor links back to website for specific keywords. Secondly I want to measure clickthrus from each site using parameter tracking in GA.
I want to know if I put in a url with ?utm_source=xxx, will this have any impact upon my linkbuilding efforts? i.e. will search engines attribute the keyword to the long url with tracking or the url without tracking.
I understand that everything from the ? mark is ignored. However, i just want to double check before I publish release.
Thanks for your help.
Mik
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It's fine... Google offers a URL builder tool itself, and of course Google Analytics is where you might use tracking like that... it knows it's just tracking code
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