: 301 redirection removes UTM tags from URLs A page redirects to another page using a 301 redirect in a .htaccess file. If I try to access the page from a URL with UTM tagging, after redirection,

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A page redirects to another page using a 301 redirect in a .htaccess file.
If I try to access the page from a URL with UTM tagging, after redirection, it removes all UTM tagging.

Is this normal behavior? How can we keep the UTM tagging so that we can see this in our analytics?

Here are some examples:

Example 1:
example.com/page.html?utm_source=nosource&utm_medium=nomedium&utm_campaign=nocam
redirects to:
example.com/another-page.html
Example 2:
example.com/page.html?utm_source=nosource&utm_medium=nomedium&utm_campgn=nocam&page=1 (Just misspelled utm_camaign to check if utm_ is not just a culprit)

redirects to:
example.com/another-page.html?utm_campgn=nocam&page=1
Example 3:
example.com/page.html?utm_source=nosource&utm_medium=nomedium&utm_campaign=nocam&page=1
redirects to:
example.com/another-page.html?page=1
Example 4:
example.com/page.html?page=1
redirects to:
example.com/another-page.html?page=1


Excerpt from .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^home-living/furniture/([^/.]+).html www.example.com/home-living/furniture/filter/cat/.h‌​tml [R=301,L]

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