Page Caching does not work for Google Adwords and similar ads system

  • Resolved dobermann6

    (@dobermann6)


    2 years, 4 months ago

    It seems W3TC Page Cache never works for Google Adwords and similar ads systems. Does anybody notice this?

    The thing is that Google Ads uses GET parameters like utm_source.
    I thought W3TC option “Cache URIs with query string variables” might help but it did not.

    One of the parameters is “gclid” which is always unique and prevents W3TC from using cache!
    https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9744275?hl=en-GB

    Other ads platforms also use unique parameters which prevent W3TC from using Page Cache

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @dobermann6

    Thank you for reaching out.
    As per our email conversation, we do have a ticket for this in our Github repository.
    Please make sure to follow the progress of the issue regularly and add any comment/information that you find useful.
    Thanks!

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hello @dobermann6

    Just to add to this thread.
    Again as per our email conversation:
    The accepted query strings field is used to remove that part from the query string and then check if the URL equals a page that is cached. So it doesn’t allow the creation of a new version of the page to be cached, it actually just says the pages are equal, so you should load the cached page.

    So adding for example gclid parameter without a value, will cache that URL and show the cached page for the next user that is visiting with gclid parameter regardless of the value.

    The same goes for utm_source and utm_medium

    You confirmed that the Accepted query Strings option did the job.

    Thanks!

    diegpl

    (@diegpl)

    2 years ago

    So, if someone get through gclid=1 the gclid=2 will be a cached page? Same for fbclid if I set them in the page cache Accepted query strings config? 🙂
    Tks! 😉

    diegpl

    (@diegpl)

    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hi, so, will it work like that, or do I need to insert an url with the glich=nothing to make the cache first? Tks!

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