Tracking Across Social Apps: What Works and What Breaks
Social apps handle links differently. Learn what breaks tracking, how redirects behave, and how to preserve attribution across modern platforms.
Link Tracking Essentials
Master click measurement: from tracking parameters to cross-device behavior. These guides are grounded in real campaign data and lessons learned.
What You’ll Learn Here
- How click tracking actually works across browsers and platforms
- Where tracking data gets distorted or lost in real campaigns
- How redirects, parameters and devices affect measurement
- How to validate and clean click data before analysis
What This Category Is Not
These articles are not vendor documentation or generic “add a UTM” tutorials. The focus is practical tracking scenarios, edge cases, and lessons learned from campaigns where data behaved unexpectedly.
Guides in This Category
UTM Parameters Explained: Source, Medium, Campaign & Beyond
Learn how UTM parameters really work across redirects, short links and GA4. Avoid attribution loss and track source, medium and campaigns with confidence.
New articles are added over time. Check back if you need updates.
Tracking Philosophy
Tracking isn’t just about collecting data; it’s about understanding behavior behind the clicks. This category covers situations where tracking data misled decisions and how better assumptions fixed it. Learn more about the approach.