[SarahHart6]

Hi everyone,

I'm running into an issue with my Google Ads tracking template and could use some advice.

I'm using a Google-certified click tracker for cloaking. When I test the tracking URL with tools like httpstatus.io, I can see the redirect passing through my tracking (money page) URL before reaching the final destination.

However, when I search for my ad on Google and click it normally, it goes straight to the final landing page instead of following the tracking URL.

I checked my Google Ads settings, and Parallel Tracking is turned off, so I'm confused about why this is happening. Is Google automatically applying Parallel Tracking to all accounts now, or is there something I'm overlooking in my tracking template or setup?

Has anyone experienced the same issue or knows what could be causing this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

 

[mbrown975]

I ran into something similar a while back. The first thing I'd check is whether the tracking template is applied at the correct level. If you have templates set at the account, campaign, ad group, and keyword levels, the most specific one takes priority. I spent hours troubleshooting before realizing an old keyword-level template was overriding everything else.