I created a PRWeb Release. When I check Google Analytics I don't find any referrals from the PRWeb link itself (even though my server logs show many visits). It does detect the referrals from news agencies that have picked up the release (Example).
Why aren't the PRWeb links being picked up by GA?
Surely because nobody came first to your site from the links on PRWeb site but from agencies that have picked up the release.
(you can check your server logs to verify if people coming from PRWeb do not come from another source just before)
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I recently opened up my google analytics and looked at the behavior panel all pages in depth for the first time and I noticed some strange pages such as:
/amobee/a3d-ad-loader.html?a3dWebglBanner=https://cdn-production.amobee3d.com/__integration__/9cbea9d/a3d-webgl-banner.js&adName=canon_sp&bucket=cdn-production.amobee3d.com&creativeId=phone&tpt={"tpt-click":"http://r.turn.com/r/tpclick/urlid/14BFxPtiFHxrmUcNdR4QHN-0x-Yel1rNyX3oaT1U1nk4Xtdr-WJQO1XlpD1d2cgzm_yn98_nqu0l-H7-6TDbnFAVUaa81rE5Va5TPoJV_1Ntn4-ZNPeiesLCUWGi5Q0pMIlxWeHujtiWU4hIRmxZhGDbLcisF5vf52pYjnxx7sgLDq60qaLSM9lSDH_P7r3m2LfHLNhuhT3pi82fEsIKY-zMcLaIqUa9FRu7ru1ABYiMCtsmIp-lbv-0tHQ0QtXb2XvAslSEVQju5WCkGeXtYPPWcOXdh4wRx2g-XrBQLJqyt0vA7eW1L6lLODoYREs9OBPuTEypwnf63U3p8t5FBYUJmQbyMz4eKCUfVCW3oZA8XwQsSlpxKWOwnR4ICWD6Hv0vAV2VuhJR0Xs53RIHS3H9Tz63br3HTEa4ZY_kKFET9A_ftQbvMsRO4u41FP6SKbtlYbh9rP6ujKbOzAN8TRFll4D4qUWscfwlVaUN_u2u5E4Vy42t_bSnl21XJcaYEQEFVUTsKZNXtOXj9z5KcYao4xmdD4GUUWyryckAdVyWahvx4V_d16JvQHawx4X3ioQH0_wNdsrb3RVATpziopDFpbZaBPUHiKLZ-bIyufGmXpZmxg-3vX-zu1vvsZPbJNqcc9li1Ympbj3ShiZ1AiIxqUrWzljp1f1In7Z8Im-yg3_KM0J57D8-gUsHIZ-oX3ZGD89yOo93M3XBqtzuW2Hsic-itJBXhnJzspzQ4UqNbGQz9oR24Gk94As9pRznxJBPBDq4ETbqpQBtH7BoKHQ/3c/https://adclick.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=C4Uxke2G6WaDwNofbpAOzu7eoBf7D7ZRGiM-B9pQBwI23ARABIABgyabejOCk0BSCARdjYS1wdWItODQ0NTQ5NjI3NTYxOTU2N6ABjPe59APIAQmoAwGqBHxP0Hg-A8VrFKLhd4VPGK02nOSLdJlNn7XiRxtz6uzu19NuxGmz5enbVlB2iirq6fTo1Hjk0ggr3O7qFuCqnbrLdm_fi-5tala6iCF3bFK5yG40vufVOofQQ-0YefypkSbFeGdRzK6ke5XOGaI8UaVEAoiTfHwrtnGA6nyzgAbd2MidmYzBhAygBiGoB6a-G9gHANIIBQiAARAB&num=1&sig=AOD64_06gu58j3wZF6kAoqQM6TYyaPYIBQ&client=REMOVED&adurl=/url/"}
/flashtalking/ftlocal.html?ifsrc=https://cdn.flashtalking.com/xre/271/2711110/1979640/js/j-2711110-1979640.js&ftx=&fty=&ftadz=&ftscw=&ft_custom=&ftOBA=1&ft_ifb=1&ft_domain=REMOVEDft_agentEnv=0&ft_referrer=REMOVED&cachebuster=750934.4320502493&click=https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/dbm/clk?sa=L&ai=Ce9A4rOjBWbK7BMnWkgP6w6nwB4GMv7JMitPArpwG-7idztoIEAEg0JjELWDJ5v6GgICgGcgBCagDAaoEuAFP0IwsQBfm1IhnAEcv-Kxde6xOfh27RXolPw6jRU8iIA8UyhMCIzdPsjzlztPIEk-d6gwfr438fNB4ptnk2O2-NRq8iKLUF9M4vcKS2aV9IoNcN3v5gcOhtR8Woojv_R8C-z6cDbensRSTTYYVM9RS8OIGbiXrVvsrHcU7kb8vlmMS0EIKD_5NwhCenv4gRE9-_U1Q1r05lJPI1RAJ1m2m_LPSflL_nb5m8BpwYhfJFdBGanLwgh7LwASLsqq1rgHgBAOIBd3Zs7sDkAYBoAZN2AYCgAefycxeqAemvhvYBwCgCP-hpwSwCALSCAcIgGEQARgCyBPg1p0C0BMA2BMDghQTGhF3d3cudm9sdW1lYm90LmNvbQ&num=1&cid=CAASEuRoTBJWebFR9Y_pZL7ze3vdCg&sig=AOD64_2PqRgxPypUSzjJHrRA4kFBwKQPZQ&client=REMOVED&dbm_c=AKAmf-BdHzMrPFTxYQj06utKwilI6E9GHRDztBNwp4NEhB2BuaayZ6JG_BcT226zfnDtdwABfZhe&dbm_d=AKAmf-BWr8_Qqd0y7BMDQPUfEaK5z_iR3KXo8wstJkrl5wytBRYlArCAOqS_TR4m5kPBDNYQmT520pL98pRp6u4h6seeuW53gXANeGvEaPqByEZTbKzlzs7zvX_HqjcevAzg0oDNVrcKyt6jc0SRG5LJGM-YrbtMWCm0-ceIau7y4qp_WK-X5-c&adurl=&ftimpid=35502EEB8067F1&ft_id=&ftcustom=&ftsection=&fttime=1505880237&ftcfid=6825920&ftguid=3165AF587F7584
I removed the client value and some other fields and replaced with REMOVED for anonymity purposes but I was wondering if anyone can tell me if it's malware.
I have a site that uses wordpress in the cloud and I have scanned with wordfence saying that my site is clean.
Was wondering if I should look deeper, or if this behavioral page is normal.
Amobee and Flashtalking are both advertising platforms, so it looks somebody has configured advertising tags incorrectly. Probably those clicks should be routed through the respective platforms (e.g. to record data for bid management or something like that) and instead they go directly to your page with redirect Urls appended. If you do paid advertising then you should check with the people who configured this for you.
About a month ago, we had a Wordpress site that went down due to a billing issue with hosting. They had to restore via backup. Since then there has been no Paid Traffic showing in our Analytics, although UA is tracking. We get most of our traffic via Adwords. I have tried everything I can think of and still can't get it to work! Some details:
We use Tag Manager (there were no edits in there prior to this event)
The only edit to the site was made when we switched from Tag Manager to straight UA script (post event), which didn't work either so we switched it back
Yes, the Analytics and Adwords accounts are linked properly
We tried adding UTM strings to the destination URLs
We tried turning off auto-tagging in Adwords
We tried turning off auto-tagging and then adding UTM
We tried setting up a brand new Analytics account
Finally, we moved the site onto a different host
NOTHING has worked. I have checked everything I can check. Is it a code issue?? Any ideas would be appreciated.
Here's the site: www.advancedwaterrestoration.com
Try Google Tag Assistant - https://get.google.com/tagassistant/ You can use this tool to watch your tags and see if they fire properly, and what data they send.
My wife and I run a WordPress blog that utilizes the AMP plugin. AMP versions of posts are automatically created. Though I may have read somewhere that AMP caches can be shared with anyone, it did not occur to me until now that other sites can display our AMP content as a cached page of their site and we never get credit for the visit.
Just today, a blogger friend mentioned that she saw traffic in her Google Analytics from https://cdn.ampproject.org/v/www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-buy-a-non-toxic-mattress/amp/?amp_js_v=5
This is a cached version of our web page located at http://www.mommypotamus.com/how-to-buy-a-non-toxic-mattress/amp/
She is seeing referral traffic from a third party site containing our content. We have no Google Analytics record for this traffic or that third party page. So my question is:
Am I losing the credit for traffic passing through third party sites? And how are people even getting to them?
This matters because we just launched AdThrive ads on our site last week, and with mobile being approx 70% of traffic, we are losing money due to AMP. I realize that some ad networks are already compatible with AMP, but AdThrive is not, due to the fact that they employ real-time bidding on ad spots, which delivers maximum earnings to the publisher.
Maybe more sites are sharing cached versions of our AMP pages, but we know at least that Google Cache is doing so and AmpProject is doing so. How is that content tracked in GA? If it isn't, how is that supposed to be okay?
AMP is starting to feel like I've given someone permission to scrape all my content and outrank my actual site with my own content.
cdn.ampproject.org is a cache that belongs to Google. This cache is used for all views that happen in search and google news and many other apps including Bing etc. You are definitely not losing credit since they will all show you as the author and creator.
I am puzzled how GA handels traffic sources for profiles that are based on a folder filter.
Example: I have a profile for a folder - www.domain.com/folder. Imagine the following scenario. A visitor comes to the homepage www.domain.com from organic search. Later the visitor navigates to www.domain.com/folder. How is this visitor shown in the traffic sources report? Is he going to be listed under organic search as this is how he landed on the website. Or as refferal or direct since he originated outside of the profile?
First thank you for your question (it helped me to discover and solve a problem with my own folder based setup) and second, the original source is kept (which makes sense, since everything else would break campaign reports in the folder profiles). I'm afraid though that I cannot back this up with an external reference (but I'm monitoring a large-ish site with a folder based setup and this is what I see in the results).
An issue was brought to me involving malware on a WP environment. When I search the brand in Google and click the corresponding link, I'm redirected to a 3rd party spam site.
This has been happening for a while (over a week), but my site hasn't been put on Google's blacklist. Additionally, site scanners like , Norton Safeweb, etc. all claim the site isn't compromised.
Additional details:
I found and deleted some suspicious PHP eval() functions and then did a search and replace in my pages and database for any remaining code. After the site cleared into un-blacklisted status with Google I thought it was all over, ran updates and took numerous measures to protect the site from future infection.
However the issue still persists.
Were the nameservers ever changed by the malware or attackers? Google could have the wrong DNS information for your domain and thinks its hosted at said spam site? Resubmit your site to Google or report the issue to them to resolve (may also be resolved automatically next time Google tries to crawl your domain)?
It is a strange issue I have not seen before either, have you looked at your .htaccess file in the root directory? It is also possible that this has a rewrite condition that if the referrer is Google to redirect you to the spam site.
Solved this issue. At the time when this happened, this redirect attack was fairly new.
HTTP requests from visitors who passed referrer data from Google Search or Bing were being redirected, some of the time.
By targeting only those coming in from search, the webmaster or site owner is less likely to see the issue (until informed by a third party), while still manipulating a decent amount of the traffic (50% of traffic for most sites comes from search engines).
When I originally posted this question in 2012, this attack was new and because the redirect was being served server-side (directly in a lone PHP file, not via .htaccess), malware signatures from scanners didn't detect this.
Running Maldetect (with an updated database) was the best way to quarantine this issue and analyze the extent of the damage caused by malware.
This issue seems due to wp-vcd Malware that creates rogue WordPress admin users and injected spam links. I faced the similar issue and it got resolved after following these steps.
The files you should check for and delete:
wp-feed.php
wp-vcd.php
wp-tmp.php
Multiple copies of class.theme-modules.php, and
remove a bunch of code from the start of all the functions.php files.
For details you can find on this issue at following links...
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-feed-php/
http://labs.sucuri.net/?note=2017-11-13
http://labs.sucuri.net/?note=2017-11-13