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How to Use URL Parameters for Facebook Ads Tracking

Jon Loomer

One tool available is URL parameters. While the use of URL parameters shouldn’t replace your Ads Manager reporting, they can provide a backup related to the traffic sent to your website from an ad (or even organically from your page or some other source). Let’s go… What Are URL Parameters? Ad Name: {{ad.name}}.

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The 8 best URL shorteners for engagement and tracking in 2022

Sprout Social

Since the beginning of the World Wide Web, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) have been one of the primary methods for jumping from one webpage to another. Unfortunately, URLs become long and complex as subdomains, subdirectories and tracking codes are added. As social media grew in popularity, lengthy URLs began to present a problem.

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How to Use Google Tag Manager to Manage the Facebook Pixel and Events

Jon Loomer

For the past couple of years now, I’ve used Google Tag Manager to manage the Facebook pixel and events (both standard and custom events). In order to take advantage of Google Tag Manager for standard and custom pixel events, you’ll first need to add the base Facebook pixel code. Install the Base Pixel Code.

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How to use Google Analytics for stronger social media reporting

Sprout Social

That’s why leaders from more than 700 companies surveyed in the 2023 State of Social Media Report revealed that 85% of their business decisions were strongly informed by social data and insights. And 56% claimed they soon planned to invest more resources in social media data analysis.

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Google No Longer Passing Keyword Referral Data for All Users

Bill Hartzer

Google no longer is passing keyword referral data through to websites. Google just made a huge change: if you search at Google, it appears that all searches (even from [link] are now secure, https searches. Website owners will no longer receive keyword referral data from Google (organic search).

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Check Those HTTPS URLs

Small Business Mavericks

Did you see this Google+ post by Gary Illyes? Here’s something for y’all web wranglers: please tell search engines about your HTTPS URLs! A recent, small scale analysis we ran showed that more than 80% of the HTTPS URLs that are eligible for indexing (i.e.

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How to Run a Social Media Competitive Analysis

Social Media Strategies Summit

Step #1: Identify Your Social Media Competitors Google might seem like an odd place to start a social media audit. For this step in the process, we’ll use the Google Adwords Keyword Planner to find sites ranking for similar keywords. Once logged in, click the big box that says Discover new keywords. What types of media do they post?

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