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Campaign Tracking & Query Parameters. Need a Sanity Check – Is There any Situation Where You Need an Ampersand -AND- a Question Mark in Front of Every Parameter?
I’ve got a client who uses a SaaS platform I work for telling me that they need to structure their parameters like this: http://www.website.com/?&Param1=Value1?&Param2=Value2 Is there ANY world in which that’s a real thing that someone actually needs to do? Also, I’d think any subsequent question marks would throw things off, but I have no idea about that honestly. We have a ‘plugin’ that will append incoming parameters to any outgoing URLs clicked within a page made in our platform, and the client is saying they’re not able to track unless the ampersand is after the ? and before the start of the first parameter. The browser is truncating the first ‘&’ (which to me would be expected because it’s not needed) and the URL ends up as www.website.com/?Param1=Value1?&Param2=Value2, which they’re saying isn’t working for them. I call BS, but please prove me wrong! I personally have never seen parameters structured like that before, and unless the parameter is literally “&Param1,” which I don’t think anyone would do in the first place, I can’t find a reason why they would absolutely need the first ampersand. Are there any?
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