Internal Search Capturing URLs as Search Keywords

Hello,

I’ve got a client with a Wordpress website and recently added a Google Custom Search engine to it. The site is https://crosworks.com. For a reason that I can’t figure out, some page views are being recorded as search terms. This is happening for both the main domain and a cross-domain that the client uses for appointment scheduling:

Here’s an entry from Tracker/Debugger where I started at the site’s home page and clicked on the “schedule now” option at the very top:

This is baffling!

Hello @David_Culbertson

I’ve checked your config and all searches with URL as query are performed on vcita domains - you can add second column to internal search report and check page url where event was triggered. I would check with developers.

I think some change happend 18th July that started it. Can you check how it is implemented? Maybe someone did custom function and by mistake added page url instead query in this function:

@jfidala

Did you mean 18 June? That’s when the PP tag was added to our vcita account via GTM. Here’s one URL from the vcita domain that’s trigger “https://crosworks.com” as a search term:

https://clients.vcita.com/portal/0zh3gy0exz7uf92l#/schedule?isWidget=true&mobile=&mode=no_header_scroll&o64=calendar_widget&o=calendar_widget&preview=&widget=true&widget_type=calendar_widget&frontage_iframe=true&fromName&step=1

I don’t see any keyword parameters in their.

@jfidala

I think I figured out the issue: inside the framed content, the URL string contains an “s” as a query parameter. That’s why the URLs are showing up as search keywords. I’ve deleted “s” from the PP site search parameter settings.

Example:

https://clients.vcita.com/portal/0zh3gy0exz7uf92l#/schedule?s=https%3A%2F%2Flive.vcita.com%2Fsite%2FCrosworks%2Fonline-scheduling&o=ZGlyZWN0&service_id=mwcv62s2bx9khn42&isWidget=false&fromName&step=1

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