Do Google Analytics filters affect link building?
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We recently made a few link wheels for specific product pages. We've been having great results with all of the wheels except for one. The one we are having issues with is the only link that we were using a Google Analytics filter on; it looks like this
http://domain.com/page.htm?zSource=Specific Keyword%tracking
My question is does Google ignore links that are obviously utilizing their analyitcs custom filters? We're doing some more testing to try to find out if it truly is the link or if the wheel is a bad one. There are so many things that could go wrong but with so many of our link wheels working well, I wonder if the filters are what is causing such results.
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They should realize their own filters but I take no chances. Allow me to suggest to specifically tell Google to ignore these parameters in the URL parameter tab in Webmaster Tools.
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