Associating Social Posts with Campaigns

You can tie a link within a social post to a campaign, so you can see which leads are interacting with your social media posts. This article will detail the process in linking posts to campaigns. Article Contents Enabling Social Tracking Associating Social Posts with Campaigns UTM Codes			Available with:
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Enabling Social Tracking

Tracking must turned on in a campaign's settings page in order to add campaign tracking to a social post. To enable campaign tracking settings, do the following:

In SharpSpring's top toolbar, click Analytics > Campaigns. Create or edit a campaign. In the Social Media Tracking section, click the Allow social posts to be associated with this campaign checkbox. Click Save Changes.

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Associating Social Posts with Campaigns

Once campaign tracking settings have been enabled, those campaigns can associate with social media posts. To associate social posts with campaigns, do the following:

In SharpSpring's top toolbar, click Social > Content Calendar. Click Create > Social Post.  Create a post with a hyperlink that directs to a site tracked in SharpSpring. Click the    Add campaign tracking icon that appears above the preview image. Enter the name the desired campaign. Click Submit.  Click Schedule Post. Choose either of the following:    •   Post Now: Schedules the social media post         for immediate release    •   Schedule Multi-Post for Later: Schedules          the social media post at a chosen date          and time Click Post to.		Click to enlarge.
		Important: Links in social posts must have one of the following at the start of a link to allow them to be associated with campaigns:    •   https://    •   http://    •   www.

When leads click the link in that social media post, they will be added to the campaign that was selected for that post.

UTM Codes

Once submitted, the link in your post will automatically generate a UTM parameter behind the scenes. These UTM codes cannot be edited and can be viewed once you schedule the post and view it in the Content Calendar. 

If you have multiple UTM codes tied to multiple campaigns, then they will be evaluated in the following order:

1. Google Ads
2. Social
3. Custom campaign tracking rules

For more information on creating and using UTM codes, refer to the following articles:

• Creating Campaigns
• Understanding Campaign Tracking