https://gfy.com/17332570-post14.html
I had to make a new thread for this because the other one started off as a possible computer infection but this is in fact not the case.
For whatever reason, my Google and Yahoo search listings are going through doubleclick.net (googleads.g.doubleclick.net to be exact), this is sometimes sending me to a paid listing page instead of the the actual listing I clicked on. And if it isn't sending me to some ad-sponsored page it is still redirecting through Google's doubleclick website and my websites are not noticing this traffic as coming from a search engine.
There is a
plugin from Google to supposedly stop these cookies from reinstalling themselves (because Google says themselves that they will!) and it seemed to have worked at first but they have come back now. And here is a page to
opt-out of many of the advertisers at once, but some did not successfully opt-out and who knows if the cookies will just reinstall themselves again..
The fact that I can no longer log traffic from Google / Yahoo is insanely ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that traffic I should be receiving from my listings are going to people paying for that keyword through doubleclick advertising!!!
I can't believe this isn't a majorly known problem yet!