Track external marketing such as email, Google Ad Words, or affiliate marketing programs in IBM Digital Analytics aka Coremetrics.

Every URL that links from an external site can have an external marketing (MMC) tag to track session behavior. This will capture the information when a URL comes to your site.

Coremetrics cm_mmc tag example

The following example shows a marketing link which has 1 parameter in the query string called cm_mmc. The value for cm_mmc sends 4 properties to Coremetrics: a vendor (GA), a category (myStorefront), a placement (MMDDYYYYCampaign) and an item (myItem). Each value is separated by the 3 character string -_- The values can be anything that makes sense, but having an agreed standard will make sure that the reports are easy to read and compare campaigns over time.

http://www.example.com/landing_page?cm_mmc=GA-_-myStorefront-_-MMDDYYYYCampaign-_-myItem

Coremetrics cm_mmc tag Reporting example (GA=Google AdWords)

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