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I've done a lot of complex analytics installations, usually cross-domain and including AdWords and manual tagging with conversion tracking of ecommerce transactions.
The gclid by default will override the manual UTM values in Analytics so that is what you are looking for. If you are just grabbing the manual tags from the URL for your own purpose, this should be OK. However, if you at some point want to import conversions (say) connected to your manual tag, then you would want to enable UTM overriding the gclid: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033981?hl=en.
Do you have AdWords and Analytics accounts linked? Where and how are you tracking commerce conversions, if you are? Do you feel you are getting the insights you need from your current custom reporting? Let me know if I can help with a call about those or further optimization of your analytics capture.
Best - Michael
Manual tagging + auto-tagging (utm_term={keyword} along with autotagging) will create problems with the data in GAnalytics (duplication, etc) but if you use your AdWords parameters in the format of kw={keyword} then there won't be any problem. If you want help, set up a call.
As @Michael said, when you have your Adwords & Analytics linked, the initial data is set by the UTM parameters.
Then, a couple of minutes later, Google will import all of the data related to the GCLID stored in the session, and that will overwrite all of the data you originally had.
We've used this to our advantage with a client who the utm_campaign variable in their own custom tracking platform. We let them know they would be fine, as their platform would properly record the campaign variable, and then a couple of minutes later, the GCLID variable in analytics would overwrite it.
We haven't seen any data duplication, except for when (for some reason) the GCLID doesn't get stored properly, which has happened occasionally. Otherwise, it works out fairly well.
Hope this helps.
There's a high chance you'll get duplicate data and think you're doing much better than you actually are.
Using both manual and auto tagging will result in your links appearing in both Advertising/AdWords and Traffic Sources/Sources/Campaigns (or whatever they're called now).
I usually stick with auto tagging only.
Good luck!
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