UTM Guide
How to capture UTM Parameters in Formidable Forms
Turn Formidable Forms responses into full attribution records ready for your marketing tools, and see what drives leads, not just form fills.
Formidable Forms makes it easy to build flexible WordPress forms, but capturing reliable UTM parameters for attribution is still a persistent challenge for marketers. Elementor can read UTMs from the URL, but it only sees what’s present when the page (and form) loads—so if a visitor clicks around your site first, lands on a different page, or returns later to submit, attribution often disappears. In practice, UTMs show up on only a small fraction of submissions, while most entries come through with blank or incomplete tracking fields, making it hard to see which campaigns are actually driving results.
The result is incomplete lead insights and a broken link between campaigns and the Formidable Forms submissions they generate. Madlitics solves this by automatically enriching each Formidable Forms response with persistent, first-touch attribution data—channel, source, campaign, and more—without manual scripts or complex hidden-field workarounds. Instead of wrestling with brittle tracking setups, you get clean, consistent attribution on every submission that’s ready to flow straight into your CRM and reporting stack.
Formidable Forms makes it easy to collect responses, but it was never designed to be a full marketing attribution layer.
Inconsistent attribution across sessions
Formidable Forms does not automatically carry UTM parameters into embedded or multi-page flows. Visitors may land on a tagged URL from an ad, click around the site, and only then reach a page with a Formidable Forms — by that point, the original UTMs are gone because Formidable Forms only reads parameters from the current page’s URL. This “submitted on a different page than the first touch” pattern is extremely common, and it silently strips away the campaign and channel context you need for accurate attribution.
Native integrations fall short
Connecting Formidable Forms directly to a CRM or marketing tool rarely fixes these gaps. Standard “source” fields often stay blank or generic for embedded Formidable Forms, which forces teams into manual workarounds, spreadsheet patching, or partial reporting. Passing dynamic UTMs into iframes usually requires custom JavaScript and careful embed configuration, which is brittle and heavily dependent on developer time. As a result, many setups end up with unreliable or inconsistent source data even when UTM tracking is “enabled.”
Incomplete channel attribution
Even when UTMs work, they only tell part of the story. Formidable Forms itself does not classify or normalize untagged traffic, so organic search, organic social, and referrals are easy to undercount or mislabel. Madlitics automatically detects and standardizes these non-paid sources—such as Organic Search (Google, Bing), Organic Social (LinkedIn, X, Facebook), and referral traffic—so every lead carries full context, not just the ones from perfectly tagged campaigns. This surfaces hidden performance from channels like SEO or content-driven social, without relying on strict UTM discipline across your entire team.
Unbiased source of truth
Ad platforms are optimized to claim credit, not to give you a neutral view of reality. Google Ads and Meta both lean on attribution models that can inflate their perceived contribution, which often conflicts with what shows up in your CRM. Madlitics creates an independent, first-party view of how visitors actually arrived before filling out a Formidable Forms, using consistent channel definitions across all sources. This gives you a single, trustworthy source of truth to compare against platform-reported numbers and make cross-channel budget decisions with confidence.
Madlitics adds a persistent attribution layer in front of your Formidable Forms so that every submission inherits clean, consistent tracking data—regardless of which page the user converts on.
When a visitor lands on your site, Madlitics captures first-touch information such as channel, source, campaign, medium, keyword or ad content (if available), and landing page details. That data is stored client-side and associated with the visitor’s session and subsequent sessions, so if they move from a campaign landing page to a blog article and then finally to a “Request Demo” Formidable Forms the original context is still available.
At submit time, Madlitics injects this normalized attribution data into hidden fields on your Formidable Forms turning each response into a complete record you can send to your CRM, marketing automation platform, or data warehouse. This means Formidable Forms becomes a reliable capture mechanism instead of a dead end for attribution.
Follow these 4 steps to capture full attribution on every Formidable Forms submission in under 10 minutes.
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Spot your top channels instantly
Build leads-by-channel breakdowns to see how Organic Search, Paid Search, Paid Social, and referrals stack up on Formidable Forms conversions. Spot if SEO is quietly crushing paid efforts, then reallocate budget from low performers to scale what's working.
Compare ad networks head-to-head
Drill into submissions by network or campaign to benchmark Google vs. Meta vs. LinkedIn performance. Uncover which platforms deliver the lowest CPLs or highest demo-to-customer rates, even for the same form across funnels.
Find campaigns that close (not just click)
Connect Formidable Forms data to your CRM and track customers + revenue by campaign, keyword, or landing page. Pinpoint which efforts generate cheap form fills but zero pipeline versus the ones quietly producing your highest LTV deals.
Prioritize high-ROI content and keywords
Group by landing page or directory (/blog vs. /features) to measure content performance, or slice revenue by keyword/gclid to bid smarter in ad platforms. Turn Formidable Forms responses into a mirror of your ad account breakdowns — but tied to actual leads and sales.
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Formidable Forms is a powerful tool for creating engaging, high-converting forms that capture leads across your site, from demos to content upgrades. Its conversational design and embed flexibility make it a go-to for performance marketers chasing better response rates.
Pairing it with Madlitics unlocks even more potential by turning every submission into a full attribution record—persistent channel, campaign, keyword, click ID, and landing page data that flows straight to your CRM. No more "Direct/Unknown" gaps or manual stitching; you get clean insights on what truly drives pipeline and revenue.
Start today with a 4-step setup that takes minutes, then build reports that shift budgets from guesswork to proven winners. This integration makes Formidable Forms not just a form builder, but a revenue attribution engine for your entire marketing stack.
