Track campaigns with Google Analytics without query string parameters?

Question

Is there a supported way in Google Analytics to track a campaign without having to use query string parameters.

In Analytics you can tag a link to your site with que

Answer 1

There is a function _setAllowAnchor in the Trackin API that allows you to specify the tags in the anchor text instead of as query parameters.

pageTracker._setAllowAnchor(true);

So you can use http://www.stackoverflow.com/#utm_source=expertexchange and GA will understand it. This way you can avoid the SEO problem.

For the Twitter problem, I suggest you the method described in post Tracking Twitter and Shorten URLs in Google Analytics.