Google Analytics Custom URL Reorting - url

I have used custom url builder to build custom url and submitted to different directories.
URL is
?utm_source=directory&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=DirectoryReferrals
Now i am stuck with reporting coz it shows source as "directory" thats what i need it to show but full referral part is showing as not set.
How can i get full url of the referral source? Need help as soon as possible.
Is there any way to get the url of the referral?

I think you may be misunderstanding the usage of the utm_source parameter in the context of custom campaigns. It wouldn't be used to get the source URL that you used when tagging your campaign, but rather it should show the source where the campaign is originating from, for example advertiser, site (eg. "google"), publication (eg. "newsletter", "billboard"). More information on campaigns can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863. Also some good info on why you are getting "not set": https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2820717?hl=en.
If you are trying to see where traffic is coming from, eg. www.google.com, www.facebook.com, then you wouldn't use custom campaigns for that.
Hope this helps.

I agree with Nyuen, you might have misunderstood the concept of UTM tracking code.
I would suggest that if you want to know that from which referral source you got the traffic then you can write it under UTM_SOURCE.
Suppose if you have promoted your post in the Facebook and Google, then in the UTM_SOURCE you can write Facebook there.
Example:
http://www.grazitti.com/resources/webinars/5-must-have-features-for-your-service-cloud-implementation.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Webinar_Tweet&utm_term=Service_Cloud&utm_campaign=Social
Hope this Works :)

You always able to find your refferal traffic under > Acquisition > referral even you tagged link with utm.
If it's not help, please upload some screenshot.

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I'm not really sure how to frame the question (maybe the reason why I could not find the answer, so please let me know if it's duplicated question) but I'm not able to get the exact address for a website that I want to scrape. The website address is "https://www.nysar.com/find-a-realtor/". And I want to only scrape information in Albany, NY. And when I search by the address with Albany, NY, I get new search results but the URL is still the same....
Is there any way that I can find out the detailed URL address?
Thank you in advance!
That page is dynamically loaded using javascript, so in order to see the source of your search result, you have to go into the Developer tools of your browser and look for it under Network/XHR. There's a lot of information about this, including here. It's not a simple concept so you should study up on it before attempting to scrape this type of sites.
In any event, in this particular case, the data is extracted from here.

How to add "Order Online" link on GMB using the API

[NOTE: This may be not the right place for this question. Can you please refer me to the right place if this is not.]
I know you can login to GMB, verify the business and than add the "Order Online" link from the GMB console.
We are an agency and expanding fast so we are trying to find out a way of adding our link to all our customer's GMB pages without needing to getting verified for each of them separately but rather using the API if possible.
Anyone here has experience doing this? I looked through the API, but can not find anything like this.
It is not possible to influence this attribute. See this article
In some cases, links to certain third-party booking services will appear automatically on business listings. These links cannot be edited in Google My Business.
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Get a review link with Google My Business API

Is there a way to get the link of a review using the GMB APIs?
The closest to what I need is this:
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113400145807499011881/place/ChIJSRSm38NhLxMRBgg2EGMZqKc/
Where the first ID (113400145807499011881) is the ID of the user who left the review, and the second ID (ChIJSRSm38NhLxMRBgg2EGMZqKc) is the place ID.
However, the review object returned by the API does not seem to contain enough information to obtain the reviewer user ID.
Thank you,
Guido
I was searching for a way to get the url to the review overview for a specific location via the API too.
After checking the links, IDs ect. in the API Responses and lots of documentations an tuturials i found NO way to get the link over tha API.
BUT a workarround with a few manual steps can help to find the link (I know that is not a final answer to the question, but maybe it is still helpfull)
go to google search, and search for you Location/ Company that contains the reviews
on the right side you should see a pannel that shows the current stars for your location and a link "xxxx Google-Rezensionen"
klick on this link and copy the url in the browser
(optional remove parameters like "&client" ect.
Check this youtube-video of the Step by Step Tuturial to see a tuturial how you can do this.
newReviewUrl is the Parameter if someone read this:
https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/v4/accounts.locations#urlattributevalue

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When we import content from our system to D2L, we create an LTI Link, a Quick Link given the LTI Link, and a Link Topic given the public URL from the Quick Link. This is all good, a nice traceable chain and relationship.
Now, I am in need to pull this same information out.
I can see a GET to /orgId/content/root will give me modules.
I can see a GET to /orgId/content/modules/moduleId/structure will give a array which includes Link Topics and Modules (and recursively more of the same).
However, I am stuck on obtaining LTI Links for the Link Topics. These are they 2 key abstractions for us.
I am further stuck on what exactly the Quick Link does for us. There is no way to GET a Quick Link.
Now, going the other way, I can see a GET to /lti/link/orgId will get me all the LTI Links in the course. But, there's no way to tell which Link Topic it's associated with.
Ditto for the Quick Link in this approach; I just don't know where this abstraction fits in.
Please advise. Thanks dearly.
A response has been posted in the Developer Community of Practice: https://community.brightspace.com/devcop/f_technical/how_to_loop_through_modules_link_topics_and_lti_links

Add identifier to browser bookmarks

Is there a way to automatically append an identifier to a page URL when it is bookmarked in the browser, perhaps something in the document head that gives the browser a directive or an onBookmark JavaScript type of event? I'm looking for ways to further segment my direct traffic in Google Analytics (if you have other ideas for doing that not related to bookmarks, please share them as well).
Example:
http://www.example.com/article
When bookmarked becomes:
http://www.example.com/article#bookmarked
I don't think you can reliably do what you're describing. The best you could do is have a button on your pages that uses window.external.AddFavorite, and then specify your hashed address. It will work for the people who use the button, which may be better than nothing.
Keep in mind that bookmark traffic is not simply part of your direct traffic.
There is a nice demonstration in Justin Cutroni's blog how Google Analytics tracks bookmark visits and it turned out, that most of the time, bookmark visits are shown as organic (if you suppose, that people first do a Google search and then bookmark your site).

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