Nasty weird encoded data added to urls

social May 25, 2012 03:51AM EDT

Addthis is adding some weird encoded data in each url of my site http://n1bar.com/events/#.T7848tVYvzE
http://n1bar.com/menu#.T7855tVYvzE
http://n1bar.com/promotions#.T78559VYvzE

I disable the plugin and it starts working again, what the hell is this?

1 Community Answers

Paul May 25, 2012 11:52AM EDT

Looks like you've enabled address bar tracking which appends those parameters to your URL. They're there so that we can collect analytics when someone copies the URL out of the address bar instead of going through our sharing tool. It shouldn't affect people linking to your site and can provide insight into what content is the most popular on your site.

If they're not wanted or are causing issues, you're free to disable address bark sharing tracking. Just uncheck the "Track address bar shares" checkbox in the advanced tab of the WordPress configuration: http://i.imgur.com/uWYQD.png

More information about address bar sharing analytics is available here: http://www.addthis.com/help/address-bar-sharing-analytics


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