cameron_shareaholic

Hello there Basemara,

Thank you for your review. Its truly what makes the WordPress community such a strong one! I wanted to reach out and simply address a few of the points that you made in your review, so that you at least feel like you have some more complete information about our tools, directly from us!

Most importantly, none of our applications steal from our publishers. With specific regard to our Affiliate Links program, designed to generate more revenue for our users, our VP of products David Zakur recently published a blog post addressing several of concerns directly related to the ones you raise. If you would like, please read that article here, as it’s full of great information and clarification:
https://blog.shareaholic.com/additional-details-about-our-recent-monetization-product-offerings/

Please be reassured, that all of our monetization offerings can be opted out of easily, and are never auto re-enabled when our users update our plugin. Additionally, though we do ask that you link your plugin to a valid shareaholic.com account, it’s so that you can easily login and access all of our great reporting functionality, including both social stats, and your sites’ earnings metrics, both integral to the of our monetization tools, and your experience.

If you have an account already, then you can easily track and view your site’s performance across applications here:
https://shareaholic.com/earn/dashboard

We really do understand that the hard work our publishers put in should be rewarded, and that is the intention behind our monetization tools. It is my sincere hope that at very least you find some of the above information helpful!

Sincerely, and thank you again,

Hello there,

Yes, you can simply de-activate the GA integration feature, which adds those tracking parameters to your share URLs.

Here is the link about the new release:
https://blog.shareaholic.com/shareaholic-integrates-google-analytics-for-share-buttons/

And here is the link which shows you how to configure or disable those features!
https://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/205181045

Thank you so much!

Hello there @therealsmj12 and @macmanx,

Please do reach out should you need additional support, and James, thanks so much for your help!

Sincerely,

Hello there @mmmaaaeeelll,

I was glad to see, when I checked on your site, that those “duplicate” redirect URLs are no longer appearing! Additionally, I checked your recommendations file (to make sure the exceptions you added successfully registered), and sure enough it is up to date with the additions you made. This gives me confidence that as you continue to add content you will not run into those duplicates.

To be clear, on the example post you gave you will currently still see what might look like “duplicate” recommendations. However, check the URLs, they are the same, new URLs. What you are seeing now is actually our recommendations (sans the old, now excluded URL versions (2/6)), and the defaulted WP recommendations that “fill in” suggestions (4/6). This is only because there are currently only a total of five pages on your site (including the home page). As you add content, our recommender will take over from WordPress, as it will have more robust content to recommend.

Please let us know if you have any further questions!

Sincerely,

Hello there @nawak,

No problem, and yes, a screenshot would help! Additionally, what is the URL of the site you are having trouble with? Those will both be helpful as we continue to triage.

Sincerely,