UTM parameters
UTM parameters are labels added to the end of a link that tell analytics tools which campaign, source, and medium brought a visitor.
They are the standard way of tagging traffic, and they only work where a browser is involved. A link that opens a messaging app usually carries a reference code instead, because the app does not pass a query string along. Both approaches answer the same question, and neither can attribute someone who arrived without a tagged link.
Worth knowing alongside it.
- Attribution
- Attribution is the practice of connecting an outcome, such as a sale, back to the campaign, ad, or link that produced it.
- Click-to-WhatsApp ads
- Click-to-WhatsApp ads are Meta ads whose call to action opens a WhatsApp conversation with the advertiser instead of sending the person to a website.