Auto-generated, weird, long URLs? Or possible hacking? Help needed.

[TaylorRHawkins]

Good afternoon, Moz.

My team and I are a bit stumped. We are getting ready to send out reporting and discovered that we are getting hits on a few very odd landing pages. We build our websites and we never made this URL: https://eaglehearing.com/Home/gclid/ EAIaIQobChMIo_K0t8T_3QIVg81kCh1NQAKIEAEYASAAEgJajfD_BwE

There are around 7-10 variations on these weird URLs pulling up in our reports for two different clients now. Do you think we got hacked?

[zeehj]

Hey there–I don't think you got hacked based on this URL alone. The gclid ID in your URL is a Google Click Identifier. It's a tracker that's used to pass information between Google Analytics and Google Ads: https://superuser.com/questions/1129999/what-does-gclid-in-some-urls-mean

[WebMarkets]

Excellent question I have also had issues with. At times, Ive seen random URLs pop up in analytics that are not associated with Google ads.