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when &gclid= parameter found, mark visitor as Adwords

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#4,468 opened on Jan 3, 2014

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Description

When we see a visitor with a correctly formatted &gclid= parameter, in the landing page url, then we can set this visitor as coming from adwords.

gclid should be at least 10 characters long, and less than 100.

Ideally we would also store the gclid value in the log_visit table for later use, eg. importing analytics conversions from Piwik into Adwords.

This would likely be done in a new plugin

Follows up #4261

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Research direction
Implement a new Matomo plugin that detects a valid gclid parameter (length 10-100) in landing page URLs, marks the visitor as coming from Adwords, and stores the gclid value in the log visit table.
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php
Domain
analytics
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Feature
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2
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Clear
Prerequisites
PHPMatomo plugin development
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70