tracking reference is added to our url

jaredfranc Aug 16, 2012 04:46AM EDT

Hi There,

Ever since we started add the addthis api to our website - it is adding a tracking reference to our actual url?

This the url with the addthis api
http://www.insurancehound.co.za/affiliates.aspx

and then it goes to this.
http://www.insurancehound.co.za/affiliates.aspx#.UCyyJqEgdTI

we will remove this api if this will continue to do this?

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Paul (AddThis Happiness Specialist) Aug 16, 2012 03:00PM 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 adjust your addthis_config variable like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
var addthis_config = addthis_config||{};
addthis_config.data_track_addressbar = false;
</script>

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

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