How to Disable Address Bar Tracking Codes from AddThis widget?
How to Disable Address Bar Tracking Codes from AddThis widget?
AddThis is
mostly popular for sharing blog content easily. Without any critical coding you
can easily use this widget and your blog visitors will able to share your
content. The main feature of AddThis widget that in it included almost all
major social site's link thus user can share through this widget, as well as
you will able to see the report that how many posts are shared by your blog
readers weekly basis. But after using AddThis widget you will see some extra letter appearing at
the end of your Blog post links like below.
- http://example.com/2015/12/since-it-helps-people-to-relax-fun-is.html#.VWqOmc-qqko or
This is a
address bar tracking code. Address bar tracking codes are added to the URL in
the address bar using JavaScript while using AddThis widget. They're just 11
character identifiers without service codes. Here are some examples:
#.USvVcVpAQco
#.USvU7qUot5l
#.USvVqOjpYys
Most of the users think that this problem arise
from the template. But this is absolutely wrong. Because AddThis
add an tracking code which will appear every time while a user click on post
link. And if anybody share the content then AddThis widget track them easily.
However we
can easily remove the AddThis widget tracking option thus after end of the post
link some unwanted letter like this #.VWqOmc-qqko
won't appear. So for disabling the tracking code just follow the below
stesp-
Step 1 Log in to your blogger account and Go to
Dashboard
Step 2 Click on Template-> Edit HTML->
Step 3 Now find the code like below
<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<div class='addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style '>
<a class='addthis_button_facebook_share' fb:share:layout='button_count'/>
<a class='addthis_button_tweet'/>
<a class='addthis_button_facebook_like' fb:like:layout='button_count'/>
<a class='addthis_button_google_plusone' g:plusone:size='medium'/>
<a class='addthis_button_pinterest_pinit'/>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script>
<script src='//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-5231XXXXXXXX' type='text/javascript'/>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->
</div>
Step 4 From the above line locate the tracking code. Which will be like below-
<script type='text/javascript'>var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true};</script>
Step 5 Now simply replace true
with false like below-
<script type='text/javascript'>var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":false};</script>
That's it. Now check
your Blog post links and see that this #.VWqOmc-qqko tracking code is not appearing.
I hope this
tutorial solve the issue about appearing unexpected letters after your Blog
post's URL.
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