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What Does UTM Mean?

Brands will often want to view the results of their offline and online marketing campaigns so that they can monitor their individual success. However, as many businesses often launch multiple marketing campaigns at one time, it can be difficult for a brand to track a specific campaign’s success. Thankfully, a UTM code can make tracking…
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Brands will often want to view the results of their offline and online marketing campaigns so that they can monitor their individual success. However, as many businesses often launch multiple marketing campaigns at one time, it can be difficult for a brand to track a specific campaign’s success.

Thankfully, a UTM code can make tracking a campaign much easier. You can learn what is or isn’t working, before making the appropriate tweaks and changes. Read on to find out what does UTM mean and how it can help your business or personal brand’s marketing efforts.

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What is UTM?

What does UTM stand for? It is an abbreviation for Urchin Tracking Module, which is a simple code that can be attached to a custom URL. Once you create a UTM, you can use it to track a medium, source, and a campaign name. Google Analytics can then detail the referral location of the searcher, as well as the exact campaign that directed them to a URL.

How to Create a UTM

It is often wise to create a vanity URL for every online and offline campaign you produce. Once you effectively mastered how to get a UTM, you can create a redirect to a specific URL, such as your main web domain. By doing so, you will be able to track how a coupon, social media promotion, newspaper ad, TV commercial, email newsletter, or radio ad is performing. This handy tool means that you will not need to publish custom landing pages for every online and offline campaign.

Why Create Separate UTM Codes for Every Campaign?

Creating a separate UTM code for every campaign will allow you to gain a greater insight into its performance. You can, therefore, review the data to identify which campaign is generating the most traffic, conversions, and revenue. Not only will a specific UTM code help you to track both the source and medium, but you can also successfully track individual campaign names with ease.

Use a Separate UTM Code to Track Two Different Ads for One Campaign

Any business or personal brand wanting to monitor every aspect of a campaign should utilise UTM tracking. You can add select values to your code to monitor various keywords or paid terms you’re targeting. You can also use it monitor two different ads with the same message, but each ad will feature different images and text. This split testing will, therefore, help to identify which ad is performing better on or offline.

As soon as you understand the values you plan to track, visit Google’s URL Builder to enter them into the parameters, before clicking on “generate URL.” It is also possible to change the code or alter the medium at your leisure so that you can tweak your campaign tracking every week or month.

By utilising specific UTM codes for each campaign, you can provide your employer or clients with accurate data regarding a newspaper, radio, or TV advertisement. They can then tweak a campaign to improve its effectiveness, or can learn from its successes for future marketing campaigns on different mediums.

Simon Brisk, Co-Founder and Commercial Director
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