Clicky and Google Remarketing

Hello,
I'm getting some weird referers and I more than highly suspect that it comes from the remarketing I'm doing for my site.

The referer looks like this :

http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-915704987869181…l=f&fu=0&ifi=4&xpc=QvQgmOo3gf&p=http%3A//www.sourcewebsite(where the ads display).com&dtd=1614"

And what's odd, is that it seems that you guys are extracting www.sourcewebsite.com and showing it as a referer.

Can anyone bring some light on this ?

Thanks,
Pierre

If the googleads referrer contains a "url" parameter, we extract taht use that as the referrer. Otherwise though we do nothing, in your example the "p" parameter is the one with the original URL.

However maybe this is a side effect of our "sticky data" functionality which saves referrers for up to 90 days in a cookie. You can learn more here including how to disable:

https://clicky.com/help/custom#sticky_data_disable

Thanks for the answer(I m connected using my other account but I also own ppro9)

If I may, and I'm a big fan of clicky sinces years, I believe this is not a good idea to consider that referers and remarketting ads are the same. They are not.

Putting both in the same bag lower the value of this little "referer box" on my dashboard, specifically for little website.
For my main website, where I make millions of page views, it does not really matter, and I can live with that aberation, but on my smaller site, this behaviour is very disturbing.

(nothing related to sticky data on this one, your first explanation is the correct one)

Do you have a philosophy behind that decision ? Or is it still open to debate ?

Anyway, thanks for clarifying !
miracl

(cant edit my post)
ok for the p= and the url=
I admit I dont know the difference between both. Is there any major difference ?

The URL parameter in this case is "p".

I double checked the code, we only do this with the "url" parameter.

The reason we do this is people who run ads generally have them pointing to their own web sites, so we try to extract the actual source of the visit, where the ad was displayed. The visitor still gets flagged as advertising.