Quote Originally Posted by fakeDecoy View Post
What's the best way to track referrals in Analytics using a url parameter? Such as:

www.domain.com/?referrer=emaillink
www.domain.com/?referrer=bbforum

The issue is 7% of my visitors are "direct" traffic, ie: no known referrer, so they're clicking on my email links or copying and pasting the url or typing it in, and I want to find out which.
Add the following to your email links to segment them in your analytics:

?utm_source=Email

You can't easily track those that copy and paste into the address bar and those will always show as "direct" in your analytics.