I have a CMS setup (Joomla!). I have google Adwords setup.

I just converted my site from a static site to this CMS recently but I have noticed that ALL my ads on Google AdWords are breaking because of their click fraud tracking thing.

Is there a way that I can put a command into my .htaccess file which will strip off &clid= and then anything behind it? I would like it to then redirect to the proper page.

Can someone please help?

i don't understand why the url will break you're adsense ads ....
how did you come to that conclusion ?

It isn't the adwords that is breaking... Google appends a ?clid=sf2tikstrWET3rwf after the url that I provide. "They say" that it is so that they can track click fraud.

The problem is being caused by this, but it isn't broken there... What is happening, is Joomla! (my CMS) is trying to read the ?clid= argument in as a GET variable and it is causing my page to become a 404 error.

So what I need to do, is have some kind of .htaccess rewrite rule or something that will take WHATEVER url is punched in and strip off the clid= argument.

if you use a Joomla CMS i am sure that they're developers figure out a solution for you're problem ... and i bet you can find an answer faster on they're forum

a rule for htaccess should look like :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*)?clid=(.*)$ $1