remove utm_* from URL and keep GA tracking

Question

I had to add some ugly links in my website that looks like: "/page/?utm_source=value&utm_source=value2&utm_source=value3...." and I would like to keep the URLs clean. I found this directives that I tried, it does redirect but the tracker doesn't work coz it's not passed to GA. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^((.*?)&|)utm_ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%2 [R=301,NE,L] Is there another solution for this? Thanks JavaScript questions and answers, JavaScript questions pdf, JavaScript question bank, JavaScript questions and answers pdf, mcq on JavaScript pdf, JavaScript questions and solutions, JavaScript mcq Test , Interview JavaScript questions, JavaScript Questions for Interview, JavaScript MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Answer 1

It seems there is no clear way to do this. I checked couple of big websites using utm_campain and it stays after clicking the link, so even big websites consider this as fine. But if one really wants to remove it, it can be done manually. Assuming that you have canonical address (which you should have if you care about SEO), see some PHP-pseudocode: function cleanupUtm($currentCanonicalUrl) { $currentUrl = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; // Check are there "utm_" parameters in current URL if (strpos($currentUrl, 'utm_') === false) { return; } redirect($currentCanonicalUrl); } function redirect($location) { // Some helper redirect function, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/768472/1657819 header("Location: " . $location); die(); } But obviously it will trigger extra redirect and page reload. Alternative As an alternative, you may consider using Google Tag Manager to replace long boring URL with campaign to some neat URL like https://example.com/#instagram. See for example this article While it looks neat (and much better than long utm... string), I feel that it gives you less flexibility (or you will end up with hundreds of tags for all the cases you need)