How to disabel UTM parameters

[Ken_Irie (Ken)]

Hi there

Could somebody advise me how to disable UTM parameters?

One client website has got UTM parameters for internal links which overwrites referral traffic, so I would like to disable all utm parameter and use mtm parameter instead.

[heurteph-ei (Philippe)]

Hi @Ken_Irie
Did you try to add this query param in the site configuration ( > Measurables > Manage > Your site)? Not sure it will work…

[Ken_Irie (Ken)]

Hi @heurteph-ei
Thanks for your comment, I tried it but doesn’t work.

[heurteph-ei (Philippe)]

Hi @Ken_Irie
How do you track? (MTM, basic JavaScript, log analytics, etc.)

[Ken_Irie (Ken)]

hi @heurteph-ei
do you mean non utm traffic? we use MTM.

[heurteph-ei (Philippe)]

Hi @Ken_Irie
Then I suggest:

1. You create an MTM variable of type Custom JavaScript in which you get the URL with queryparams, excluding utm*
2. In the pageView tag, just set the URL coming from the variable defined in step 1:
   
   

[Ken_Irie (Ken)]

Thanks!
Let me try and keep you update.