In Part 1 of this series I explained link tagging, the technology that Google Analytics uses to track on-line marketing campaigns. In Part 2 I discussed how to tag your links and posted a tool that I use to quickly tag large numbers of marketing URLs. Today, in Part 3, I’ll start to pull this […]
How Does Google Analytics Track Conversion Referrals?
Visitor campaign information is stored in a cookie on the visitor’s machine. This cookie stores the referral information for the visitor’s session. This cookie tracks organic referrals, tagged campaign links, un-tagged referral links and direct visits. Each time a visitor visits your site the Google Analytics Tracking code updates this cookie with the appropriate campaign […]