Title: Google Ads Traffic Last modified: May 28, 2026 --- # Google Ads Traffic * Resolved [wpprup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wppraesenz/) * (@wppraesenz) * [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/) * Hello, after installing matomo freshly it seems to ignore the suffices of my Google Ads ads/assets etc. (?pk_campaign=AdWords&pk_kwd=K….) and count them as coming from the organic Google Search. An exchange of these suffices would be very laborious because this suffix is not a global one but specific, individually attached to each URL of a single ad or asset. So I hope there is a simple solution because it worked fine before the new installation. Thanks in advance. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fgoogle-ads-traffic%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Support [dizzyatinnocraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dizzyatinnocraft/) * (@dizzyatinnocraft) * [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/#post-18922363) * Hi [@wppraesenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wppraesenz/), I’m not sure what could have changed by a fresh install that would cause this behavior, pk_campaign and other params should be detected by default. If you visit one of these URLs directly (ie, [https://yourwebsite.com/?pk_campaign=AdWords&…](https://yourwebsite.com/?pk_campaign=AdWords&…);), then check the Visits Log in Matomo, is the campaign detected? * Thread Starter [wpprup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wppraesenz/) * (@wppraesenz) * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/#post-18922851) * Thanks, but no. * Plugin Support [dizzyatinnocraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dizzyatinnocraft/) * (@dizzyatinnocraft) * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/#post-18923041) * I assume you mean the campaign wasn’t detected in your test visit? Can you provide an example URL and a screenshot of what gets recorded in the visits log? * Are you using any premium plugins? And can you provide your system report: [https://matomo.org/faq/wordpress/how-do-i-find-and-copy-the-system-report-in-matomo-for-wordpress/](https://matomo.org/faq/wordpress/how-do-i-find-and-copy-the-system-report-in-matomo-for-wordpress/)? * Thread Starter [wpprup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wppraesenz/) * (@wppraesenz) * [2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/#post-18923111) * Thanks and sorry for the short answer. Here is a URL: * [https://praesenz-web.de/rueckfuehrungstherapie/?pk_campaign=AdWords&pk_kwd=R%C3%BCckf%C3%BChrung](https://praesenz-web.de/rueckfuehrungstherapie/?pk_campaign=AdWords&pk_kwd=R%C3%BCckf%C3%BChrung) * But, sorry, I do not know what to show you when it does not show as campaign traffic in Matomo!? Premium plugins: What do you mean exactly? Something like WP Rocket? I would not hesitate to give you the system report, but not here…if you gave me an email address I will do that gladly per mail. Could this ignorance of the suffix stem from a privacy option? Perhaps I changed something here in direction of greater strictness!? * Plugin Support [dizzyatinnocraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dizzyatinnocraft/) * (@dizzyatinnocraft) * [1 week, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/#post-18923954) * [@wppraesenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wppraesenz/) * > But, sorry, I do not know what to show you when it does not show as campaign > traffic in Matomo!? * In the visits log, on the left side, it would display campaign information if detected (eg, `Campaign Name: mycampaign`). This is what the visits log looks like: [https://demo.matomo.cloud/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday#?period=day&date=yesterday&segment=visitConvertedGoalId%3D%3D7&idSite=1&category=General_Visitors&subcategory=Live_VisitorLog](https://demo.matomo.cloud/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday#?period=day&date=yesterday&segment=visitConvertedGoalId%3D%3D7&idSite=1&category=General_Visitors&subcategory=Live_VisitorLog) * I want to do a test where we manually visit the page with campaign parameters( like the link you posted), then see what is recorded in Matomo. * > Premium plugins: What do you mean exactly? Something like WP Rocket? * Matomo provides premium plugins like these: [https://plugins.matomo.org/?wp=1](https://plugins.matomo.org/?wp=1), but if you have to ask then you’re not using them. * > I would not hesitate to give you the system report, but not here…if you gave > me an email address I will do that gladly per mail. * You can email the system report to dizzy (at) innocraft (dot) com (InnoCraft is the company that builds Matomo). * > Could this ignorance of the suffix stem from a privacy option? Perhaps I changed > something here in direction of greater strictness!? * Yes, that’s definitely possible, in the past we’ve seen plugins like WordFence strip URL parameters or characters from URLs causing tracked data to look different. * Thread Starter [wpprup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wppraesenz/) * (@wppraesenz) * [1 week, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/#post-18925100) * Thank you very much for caring. It seems, I have detected the problem: The compliance was too strict. I initially marked “Enforce compliance where possible”- this probably shut off the detection of the campaign. This was probably the difference to my former installation. (I even had no menu item “visitor´s log” – and more visitor´s menu items were missing.) Now the main and most important compliance items are still green and GDPR-conform, so I will go with this version. (I wonder why you did not ask this first, as “enforce compliance” is a matomo-native option…) * Plugin Support [dizzyatinnocraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dizzyatinnocraft/) * (@dizzyatinnocraft) * [1 week, 4 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-traffic/#post-18925195) * Hi [@wppraesenz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wppraesenz/), I’m glad to hear everything is working now. I’ll mark this as resolved, feel free to create a new issue if you need further help. 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