title: UTM tracking for the Social Share Buttons: Facebook, Pinterest
body: <p>all.</p>
  
  <p>I want to add <code>utm_</code> parameters to all my social share buttons. I successfully included the parameters into the Twitter and G+ without any problems. But have a lot of problems with Facebook and Pinterest.</p>
  
  <p>Pinterest strip any <code>utm_</code> parameters.
  Facebook uses a canonical URL instead of I provided.</p>
  
  <p>Solutions I was tried:</p>
  
  <p>1) using an URL shortener bit.ly. Pinterest <a href="https://en.help.pinterest.com/entries/21436306-why-is-my-pin-or-site-blocked-for-spam-or-inappropriate-content" rel="nofollow">doesn't allow to use it</a>. Facebook still use the canonical URL instead of one I provided</p>
  
  <p>2) Use the <code>fb_ref</code> for the Facebook. We use Wordpress VIP hosting and this hosting strips any parameters from facebook.</p>
  
  <p>3) Rename the <code>utm_</code> parameters to <code>utm</code>. It was fixed the problem but I want to keep all my tracking info consistent.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas? Thanks</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE 12/21/13</strong></p>
  
  <p>I want to have the following. Scenario:</p>
  
  <p>1) user shares the content from my site (<code>http://example.com/url/?utm_campaign=onsitesharebutton</code>)</p>
  
  <p>2) user's friend goes to Social Network, for example Pinterest, and see this Pin</p>
  
  <p>3) user's friend clicks on this Pin and goes to my site. When he goes to my site, I wanted to have the utm_* parameters in the URL, ie <code>http://example.com/url/?utm_campaign=onsitesharebutton</code>. In this way I will know that this user arrived through a certain source or overall marketing channel as part of a certain campaign</p>
  
  <p>Problems:</p>
  
  <p>1) Pinterest <a href="http://www.quora.com/Pinterest/Does-Pinterest-strip-UTM-parameters-from-the-URLs-of-images-that-have-been-pinned-If-so-is-there-a-workaround-to-get-this-data-in-Analytics-1" rel="nofollow">strips <code>UTM_*</code> parameters from the my URLs</a></p>
  
  <p>2) Facebook uses canonical URL to share and ignores my <code>UTM_*</code> parameters</p>