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New addition to Keyword-Rich URL's?

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Topic: New addition to Keyword-Rich URL's?

Posted By: TrekLightGear
Subject: New addition to Keyword-Rich URL's?
Date Posted: 15-November-2012 at 7:45pm

I just completed the upgrade to v4.6. I notice that when I load product pages now there's an additional number of characters being appended to the keyword-rich URL.

For example, the URL:
http://www.treklightgear.com/catalog/pc/The-Bindle-Pack-19p873.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.treklightgear.com/catalog/pc/The-Bindle-Pack-19p873.htm

Now loads as:
http://www.treklightgear.com/catalog/pc/The-Bindle-Pack-19p873.htm#.UKWKf4aQPxc" rel="nofollow - http://www.treklightgear.com/catalog/pc/The-Bindle-Pack-19p873.htm#.UKWKf4aQPxc

This happens for every product in my store as far as I can tell, but not for category pages.

What is this new code? It doesn't seem to be any help from an SEO perspective and makes it much uglier when customers are trying to share URL's.

Thanks in advance.

Replies:

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15-November-2012 at 8:21pm

That's coming from AddThis; it's not a ProductCart thing.

I'm not really diggin' it either, but just haven't had time to look into it yet.

Posted By: TrekLightGear
Date Posted: 15-November-2012 at 8:36pm

Thanks Sean - I just looked into it and found the answer here: http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/questions/515747-removing-characters-at-end-of-url" rel="nofollow - http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/questions/515747-removing-characters-at-end-of-url

I made the change and it took care of the issue, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 15-November-2012 at 9:01pm

It is a tracking code. I got stung on that sucker a few months ago and spend a good part of a day before I discovered the source and was able to remove it.

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16-November-2012 at 1:59pm

Thanks for the 411, Seth. I've been meaning to look into that for some time ... but there's never enough time in a day for everything, right! Guess that's what communities are for ;-)

I'm sure lots of folks will be curious about this.