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A nice update to a very old meme. I didn't realise that the original 'you have two cows' was from 1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows

And after the NZ reference, I'm wondering if the author of this one was an Aussie.

Meta-discussion:

The url has still the utm variables of sendgrid's newsletter. Therefore all these visits here (let's say 3-7k) will be attributed to sendgrid.com/email

Is there a way as site owner to avoid this? Would automatic redirect to the same url without utm params still add goals to that source?

I don't know sendgrid service details but if they can track email clicks, then preserving utm variables might actually be good.

You get number of email clicks from separate metric, plus you get total reach from Google Analytics - so that you know total impact of your mailing (or any other channel you're tracking), including reshares.

That's all obvious.

But people tend to copypaste and share this url to facebook, twitter or hackernews. Which completely skews your GA information.

Therefore my original question: is it possible to avoid this.

Love the VC one. Even better would be if they eventually discover it was really two dogs all along.

A Tale of Two Cows