Our company has employed Yext to fix business listings across the web. We've discovered that a significant portion of the links on our business listings have bizarre code added to them that we did not sanction.
For example, our URL is:
www.example.com
but Yext has added a few things to that, such as:
www.example.com/?Yext=55-2513AA
and the others have much more, such as:
www.yelp.com/biz_redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&src_bizid=laA1e75HeN3Des5pUwFUXw&cachebuster=1443921914&s=52f12736b2cde3ee696da00dfc187e8b6bcd01c820f65b54161258b103e60eab
Or another one has:
clicks.superpages.com/ct/clickThrough?SRC=yexttest&target=SP&PN=1&FP=profile&PGID=yp603.8084.1443921927239.134258140495&ALG=113&TS=nbt&OF=1&ACTION=log,red&LID=0138039547&TR=50&bidType=FLCLIK&PGSN=E0&FL=profile&TL=off&LOC=http://www.example.com
And another has:
ncpnxm.yext-wrap.com/plclick?pid=dca1c15771&ids=2033499&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2F%3FYext%3D55-2513AA&target=specialOffer
(And no, we do not have a "special offer" on that website that we know of)
what does this extra code specifically do?
Why is it different for each site, since Yext is in full control, and these sites will not let us edit our own business info?
and will it allow Yext to remove our URLs from corrected listings if we unsubscribe from their service in the future?
Can or does this affect our own webpage analytics, Google Analytics, or other tools we need as a business to track our traffic and customer interactions?
yelp.com
andsuperpages.com
URLs - they look like the standard URLs you get on all business listings that link to an external website on those sites? – MrWhite Oct 4 '15 at 8:34