Preview Tool - URL Includes My Site

Yet Site Targeting == Off

[EarleyGirl]

Maybe someone can help me understand what I'm seeing. When I use the Google Preview Tool, two of the advertisers (both MFAs) show my domain in the link. How can that be? Link from the preview tool looks like the following except edited for display purposes:

www,MFAsite,com /?query=item&referrer=Adwords&camp=Content+###&group=Item+Name+Content&keyword=item+name
&traffictype=content&sourcesite=www,mydomain,com&creativeid=#########

What really bugs me is the part showing "sourcesite=" and my domain. I was under the impression that since I'd requested no cpm/site targeting, etc. that I wouldn't be targeted. Have I misunderstood or has something changed?

Thanks in advance.

EG

[edited by: EarleyGirl at 10:28 pm (utc) on April 5, 2007]

[joelgreen]

Google uses sourcesite=www,mydomain,com to track the source site, i.e. site on which ad was shown

[EarleyGirl]

If that's the case, then why don't all the URLs have this code attached?

Google uses sourcesite=www,mydomain,com to track the source site, i.e. site on which ad was shown

[EarleyGirl]

I'm still trying to understand this. Could this be from an Adlink unit?

Edited to add - no... I remember now. That wasn't from an adlink, it was an advertiser and I used the preview tool to see if they were an MFA. And were they ever!

[edited by: EarleyGirl at 6:03 am (utc) on April 6, 2007]

[netmeg]

I think it's a parameter that AdWords advertisers can add to their urls to track.

[EarleyGirl]

I see. Thanks, netmeg. It's making more sense now.

[Petra Kaiser]

We have seen this happen several times on sites where we use adsense and affiliate network ads together. Following these adsense ads to the affiliate source is an eye-opener.