Campaign tracking and duplicate content
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Hi all,
When you set up campaign tracking in Google Analytics you get something like this "?variable=value parameters" in the URL.
If you place such a link on your site as an internal link, will it be considered as a different URL and will have its own link value?
The question I have is, since Google knows it's a Google link and knows the original URL (by stripping the tags), does it pass link value to the original URL? If not, what can be done to pass link value?
Thanks in advance.
Henry
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Thanks for the answer mate!
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Hey Henry,
I'd make sure that the landing page has a rel canonical tag on it and you should be good to go. My guess is that Google either gives full value for the link or a very high amount of the value. Google has gotten a lot better at identifying what page deserves value when it have variables attached to it.
Casey
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