How to correctly send the GCLID to Google Analytics with rewritten URLs?

[d***@universem.be]

Hello Everyone,

I have an issue with my client who wants to launch Adwords campaigns on his homepage.
The problem is that there is a rewriting of the URL with the gclid which complicates the link with Google Analytics.

The Landing page before rewriting : (...).be/mypage.html?gclid=aaa123
The landing page after rewriting : (...).be/mypage/gclid/aaa123.html

Currently, what I have done is a JavaScript fonction to get the gclid parameter (aaa123) and set the location path as follow (with GTM in custom HTML):

ga('set', 'location', '(...).be/mypage/?gclid={{gclid parameter}}');

Then here is my pageview:

ga('send', 'pageview', '/mypage/');

Could you help me to know if my setting is good to correctly send the gclid parameter to google analytics?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Dimitri

[Erland Sommarskog]

Post by d***@universem.be
I have an issue with my client who wants to launch Adwords campaigns on his homepage.
The problem is that there is a rewriting of the URL with the gclid which
complicates the link with Google Analytics.
The Landing page before rewriting : (...).be/mypage.html?gclid=aaa123
The landing page after rewriting : (...).be/mypage/gclid/aaa123.html
Currently, what I have done is a JavaScript fonction to get the gclid
parameter (aaa123) and set the location path as follow (with GTM in

Maybe I'm dense, but does this have any relation to SQL Server? I think you
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