Strange Maven source in article url's

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   Shesabutterflyposted 6 years ago

   I thought the main site of HP was not being absorbed by Maven. Either way, I'm seeing this on all the niche sites, as well as on HP. It's not on every article, I can't find this on the popular articles section or any article directly on the main pages. However, if I click on any of the recommended articles all their urls contain this little snippit (utm_source=maven-coalition&utm_medium=hubpages&utm_campaign=liftigniter&utm_content=hp-related).
   
   If I do a search for the same article that I clicked on through the recommended link the Maven source snippit is gone. What gives!? I thought url's could not be changed? Why is this only happening on our recommended articles section, but disappears if we go to the article directly or from the main page of a niche site? The popular article does not contain this snippit either. Just the articles that are in the recommended section.

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      lobobrandonposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      I would say this is due to the backend system they developed. The popular section grabs it from one database (sticks to one site) while the recommended is being built or is built to grab related articles from across the network on another database or something on these lines. Hence the code, it's probably Javascript or something else. I'm not too tech savvy with working with website databases and the web languages they use to communicate, so can't say which scripting language that is for sure.

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         Shesabutterflyposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         Interesting. Thanks for the thoughts Brandon.
         
         Would the related articles section be similar to the popular section? I can't test it out to see as I am not seeing any related articles. The related section flashes for a second and then is replaced with the recommended section instead.
         
         Didn't know if this was because of this snippit in the url or due to something completely unrelated. But then I saw that you had posted your articles are showing related and not recommended articles so I was not sure if this snippit was suppose to be there or not.
         
         It seems like they want most of us looking at the recommended articles, because it could potentially send us all over the HP/Maven network. I find this odd as I thought that was not good in Google's eyes. I had a related articles section up until a few days ago, so that's why I thought this snippit in the url's had to be new.

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            lobobrandonposted 6 years agoin reply to this

            I cleared cache and still see it as related articles. Not sure why it's different.

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