Google Analytics Intelligent Alerts for Product Feeds

[inetbiz]

ok Josh says not to use utm tracking because it erases referral information.

# I recommend using the _trackPageview method.

• If you choose to tag your links with utm, it erases all referral information. In other words, if someone arrived at your site via a Google organic search; but they then clicked on an internal link that had the utm tagging, you lose the insight that the visitor originally came from the Google organic search (the source and medium). Instead, you see the new source and medium information that you manually entered. For me, that’s not a good option. I need to know where the visitor came from as much as I need to know what internal links they’re clicking on. Again, check out Epikone’s post.
• Because _trackPageview creates a new pageview, you can use custom filters to include and exclude those pageviews from GA profiles (more on that below). Also, you don’t lose any referral information.

[inetbiz]

I also was reading How To Track Internal Links in Google Analytics - Josh Chambers he talks about ga trackpageview functions in google base feed ga.js scripts.
Josh writes:

What do you do if you want to track how often a link on your site is clicked? How do you see those links in Google Analytics (GA)? What filters and profiles should you create to accurately track this information? Hopefully, I can accurately answer these questions—some of them in this post, some in the future. *Warning* if you don’t care about web analytics, reading this post may produce seizures and a strong desire to fall asleep on the job.

[inetbiz]

My thinking was to differentiate article feeds, xsell articles feeds, products feeds, et al

[inetbiz]

Campaign Source (utm_source)
   Required. Use utm_source to identify a search engine, newsletter name, or other source.
Example: utm_source=google

Campaign Medium (utm_medium)
   Required. Use utm_medium to identify a medium such as email or cost-per- click.
Example: utm_medium=cpc

Campaign Term (utm_term)
   Used for paid search. Use utm_term to note the keywords for this ad.
Example: utm_term=running+shoes

Campaign Content (utm_content)
   Used for A/B testing and content-targeted ads. Use utm_content to differentiate ads or links that point to the same URL.
Examples: utm_content=logolink or utm_content=textlink

Campaign Name (utm_campaign)
   Used for keyword analysis. Use utm_campaign to identify a specific product promotion or strategic campaign.
Example: utm_campaign=spring_sale

[inetbiz]

I was reading Using Google Analytics Intelligence Alerts for Data Feeds and was wondering how this affects ga.js type feed scripts? Can anyone elaborate the changes from UTM type old stlye feed data?