# Google indexing/clicking links from the email?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/google-indexing-clicking-links-from-the-email/6579>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 18, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/google-indexing-clicking-links-from-the-email/6579 "2016-11-18T16:10:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![swip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@swip](https://forum.mautic.org/u/swip)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/google-indexing-clicking-links-from-the-email/6579/1 "2016-11-18T16:10:02Z")

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I am monitoring a campaign I just sent - I noticed Mautic reporting a click to a link, so I pulled the reports for this email to see if it was an internal click from one of us… no, it was a Google referrer with email\_id NULL. Not linked to any contacts, either. (Except for the one auto-created by Mautic - Mountain View, California… everything else in NULL.)  
  
  
  
When I went to the URL referenced as referral, it just redirected me from google to my page. This has been happening with all campaigns., loads of NULL email\_id in the page\_hits table.  
  
  
  
Is there any way to prevent this behavior? I have robots.txt wildcarded, so it shouldn’t be ‘indexing’ anything.  
  
  
  
This is part of the URL/querystring:

Code:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved

  
Anyone know what's going on here?

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**Author:** ![swip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@swip](https://forum.mautic.org/u/swip)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/google-indexing-clicking-links-from-the-email/6579/2 "2016-11-18T16:10:02Z")

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I am monitoring a campaign I just sent - I noticed Mautic reporting a click to a link, so I pulled the reports for this email to see if it was an internal click from one of us… no, it was a Google referrer with email\_id NULL. Not linked to any contacts, either. (Except for the one auto-created by Mautic - Mountain View, California… everything else in NULL.)

When I went to the URL referenced as referral, it just redirected me from google to my page. This has been happening with all campaigns., loads of NULL email\_id in the page\_hits table.

Is there any way to prevent this behavior? I have robots.txt wildcarded, so it shouldn’t be ‘indexing’ anything.

This is part of the URL/querystring:

```auto
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved
```

Anyone know what’s going on here?