Will Google penalize a site that had many links pointing to it with utm codes?

[wepayinc]

I want to track conversions using utm parameters from guest blog posts on sites other than my own site.

Will Google penalize my site for having a bunch of external articles pointing to one page with unique anchor text but utm code?

e.g. mysite.com/seo-text?utm_campaign=guest-blogs

[KristinaKledzik]

No, Google likes unique anchor text, since it seems more organic, and supports tracking codes as well. My only hesitation is that adding those tracking codes is going to identify your links as marketing efforts rather than completely organic links. But I think you should be okay.

The problem with tagging is that mysite.com/seo-text?utm_campaign=guest-blogs could technically be indexed by Google and become a duplicate of mysite.com/seo-text. Make sure that Google knows that you only want it to index mysite.com/seo-text by:

1. Adding a cannonical tag on the page to link to the non-parameter version:
2. Tell Google to disregard the utm_campaign parameter in Google Webmaster Tools.

Best,

Kristina

[NakulGoyal]

I agree with Kristina one 100%. She rocked with the 2 perfect solutions you ought to be looking into.