Link Issues

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  livetoinform · Member · Jan 31, 2021 at 1:17 pm

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  Hello, recently I noticed that all my website links are adding long random characters and numbers after the slug. I can’t seem to figure out what is going on.

  For example

  https://livetoinform.com/school-hacks-study-tips-for-education/?epik=dj0yJnU9NnVyejgtY2tHSWQ2aG9rMTY3dkdGS0NFd1o0WEJabFUmcD0wJm49aHY1ci1LalpUS25ZeDNvRmZneW5iZyZ0PUFBQUFBR0FXcWMw

  It should stop after the education

  All my links are doing this when people access my site from Pinterest. And there will be new links with all this gibberish. Analytics shows me that there are many variations of the same link but they all go back to my article successfully. I just don’t understand what’s going on.

  Thank you for support!

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  staartmees · Member · Jan 31, 2021 at 2:18 pm

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  The urls with the ?epik= are coming from people who clicked through to your page from Pinterest. You can’t do a thing to prevent this.
  Also as your site is using the open source wordpress.org, you get support at https://wordpress.org/support/

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  staartmees · Member · Jan 31, 2021 at 2:20 pm

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  additional info, https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-epikxxxxxxxx-after-url-in-google/

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  livetoinform · Member · Jan 31, 2021 at 2:38 pm

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  Thank you startmees, I really appreciate it! I thought I had some sort of virus 😅