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I want to add utm_ parameters to all my social share buttons. I successfully included the parameters into the Twitter and G+ without any problems. But have a lot of problems with Facebook and Pinterest.
Pinterest strip any utm_ parameters.
Facebook uses a canonical URL instead of I provided.
Solutions I was tried:
1) using an URL shortener bit.ly. Pinterest doesn't allow to use it. Facebook still use the canonical URL instead of one I provided
2) Use the fb_ref for the Facebook. We use Wordpress VIP hosting and this hosting strips any parameters from facebook.
3) Rename the utm_ parameters to utm. It was fixed the problem but I want to keep all my tracking info consistent.
Any ideas? Thanks
UPDATE 12/21/13
I want to have the following. Scenario:
1) user shares the content from my site (http://example.com/url/?utm_campaign=onsitesharebutton)
2) user's friend goes to Social Network, for example Pinterest, and see this Pin
3) user's friend clicks on this Pin and goes to my site. When he goes to my site, I wanted to have the utm_* parameters in the URL, ie http://example.com/url/?utm_campaign=onsitesharebutton. In this way I will know that this user arrived through a certain source or overall marketing channel as part of a certain campaign
Problems:
1) Pinterest strips UTM_* parameters from the my URLs
2) Facebook uses canonical URL to share and ignores my UTM_* parameters
I still would like to change a few things about the Facebook Like / Share button and Google+ button seems to sometimes have issues in Safari, but I successfully track likes, pins, +1s, tweets, and even LinkedIn using a variety of techniques.
Facebooks recent changes to their buttons just confused me. I had everything working and then they change all.js or whatever the JavaScript is you must use. They also changed the colors and size. I wasted a lot of time on this and I'm still not happy but I do track everything carefully in Google Analytics.