[Support request] Google indexing utm_campaign url

[Franklin]

Hi,

Google has started indexing URLs with the following parameters utm_campaign URL recently for my sites

Any clues why that has started happening.

Please suggest how to fix it.

https://wearholic.com/

https://paste.pics/CKQJ0

[David]

Hi there,

see this Stack Exchange answer:

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/102069

Point 1 – is already in place on your site. Check the remaining steps.

[Franklin]

Hi David,

I feel the URLs are getting indexed because Google is crawling them from the source code of the page.

view-source:https://wearholic.com/best-cheap-solar-watches-under-100/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=best-cheap-solar-watches-under-100

Just search for “utm_source” on this page and you will see the exact URL which is getting indexed.

https://paste.pics/CLNIA
“”

How to disable this URL from getting on the source code of all the pages/posts?

Thanks!

[David]

The UTM source is not added by the Theme – that comes from the campaign builder, not sure what method you used to add them, but that code is inserted due to the ?utm_campaign query on that URL.

The article i linked to above shows how to you tell Google to stop indexing them.

[Franklin]

Hi David,

I do understand the point. But I didn’t add it intentionally. I am not sure what is causing this. For 2 of my sites using GP Premium such URLs started getting indexed recently.

Currently, for wearholic.com there are 4-5 of them in Google’s index now.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awearholic.com+inurl%3Autm_source&sxsrf=ALeKk03JXccljJvlTX0b0nTSHdHxwyOxqA%3A1622047430380&ei=xnquYMLPFtuJ4-EPnvO7kAU&oq=site%3Awearholic.com+inurl%3Autm_source&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BwgAEEcQsANQ8TpY21tg0lxoB3ACeACAAa8BiAHvEpIBBDAuMTeYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6yAEIwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwjCypXH5efwAhXbxDgGHZ75DlIQ4dUDCA4&uact=5

[Franklin]

Also, these are all recent articles (indexed with utm_campaign parameters) that were published after I installed this plugin on the site – https://wordpress.org/plugins/shared-counts

Can it be because of the plugin?

[David]

You’re running Monster insights on your site.
Go to Insights > Settings > Engagement — expand the Enhanced Link Attribution option – is the Enable Tag Links in RSS option checked ? If so DISABLE it

[Franklin]

Hi David,

Yes, it was enabled and when I disabled it the parameters from URL went away from the feed.

I hope this fixes this issue and there won’t be any drawback of disabling this option.

Thanks a lot for letting me know about this!

[David]

You’re welcome

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