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Re: My Analytics show ?fb_xd_fragment= after adding FB Like box

Whims Mar 24, 2011 12:51 AM
Posted in group: Google Analytics

Categories: Discuss Tracking and Implementation issues :

I'm sorry CleverFoxy, I'm really not sure what you are referring to.. 

as per the page that i linked to in my previous post.. if you dont want these sorts of things showing in your google analytics you can strip out the query parameters so they dont add clutter to your reports where that clutter has no value to your reports

Query Parameter:

Any VARIABLE=VALUE pair that follows the question mark ("?") in a URL. Google Analytics receives campaign information from query parameters appended to destination URLs.

For example, the URL http://www.example.com/search?q=foo contains the query parameter q=foo.

In your instance ?fb_xd_fragment= at is the query parameter is fb_xd_fragment= at

So where your reporting profile is.. you would click Edit in the Action column at the far right.. and on the website profile page, you would choose to the Edit link just under the Check Status icon and then Where it says Exclude URL Query Parameters: you would type in   fb_xd_fragment


To have google webmaster tools ignore it. in Site Configuration click on the tab Parameter Handling and enter fb_xd_fragment and select the option Ignore from the drop down menu