In many cases, tracking referring website URLs may not be possible or reliable way of tracking your on-line marketing campaigns. Then, you may want to use the campaign tracking support in Kentico CMS Web Analytics module.

 

How it works

 

You need to include a special parameter to the link in your campaign that will allow you to identify the campaign name. If your current link that you use for banner advertisement looks like this:

 

http://www.mywebsite.com

 

Your new URL with campaign tracking will look like this:

 

http://www.mywebsite.com/?campaign=banner1

 

As you can see, we have added a parameter campaign with name of the campaign (banner1).

 

How to configure campaign tracking

 

All you need to do is to specify the campaign tracking URL parameter name in Site Manager -> Settings -> Web analytics. Choose your website and set the value of the Campaign tracking URL parameter key to: campaign

 

Then, modify the links to your website so that they contain the paramter campaign like these:

 

http://www.mywebsite.com/?campaign=banner1

http://www.mywebsite.com/?campaign=newsletterJune

http://www.mywebsite.com/?campaign=pressrelease

 

How to evaluate campaigns

 

Go to the CMS Desk -> Tools -> Web Analytics module and choose the Campaigns report. You will see how many hits your received from your campaigns in the chosen time period:

 

 

Page url: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?tracking_marketing_campaigns.htm