URL Exclusions
URL Exclusions filters out any page that shouldn’t carry attribution credit: post-conversion steps, internal flows, or non-influential touchpoints, so they don’t distort performance.
Why certain pages distort attribution
Without exclusions, non-influential pages look like your best-performing content
Without exclusions
With exclusions
Always excluded (built-in)
These patterns are excluded by default across all properties and cannot be removed
Adding Custom Exclusions
Go to Settings → URL Exclusions to define which paths, parameters, or keywords should never appear as attribution touchpoints.
How to add exclusions · 2 steps
This can be a path, a query parameter, or any keyword. Any page URL containing this string will be excluded from all attribution views.
Example patterns:
/thank-youutm_source=hs_automation_hsenc/demo/confirmedOnce added, exclusions apply immediately across all attribution views: first touch, last touch, multi-touch, journey explorer, and pipeline intelligence. No waiting, no re-processing.
How Exclusion Matching Works
Substring matching · examples
/demo/demo/confirmed/demo/booked/demo/thank-youMatches any URL containing /demo anywhere
_hsenchttps://nexahq.com/?_hsenc=123blog/post?_hsenc=abcMatches any HubSpot-tracked link regardless of campaign
Your exclusions
Custom patterns you’ve added, with remove option
/hubspot-previewutm_source=Salesforce/demo/booked