Welcome to the community! What you are seeing is referred to as an AdParam. This specific example is a keyword insertion AdParam. When the ad is served, the keyword will be used to replace the token {keyword:partnos}. If the keyword does not fit, or for any reason cannot be inserted into the ad, 'partnos' is used as the default value.
You can actually use AdParams in the destination URL also. Of course this means you have to be very careful to ensure that anything that is substituted in gets appropriately served by the destination web server as invalid destination URLs will cause headaches, potentially preventing ads from serving. There are many ways to handle this depending on the technology used in the web site and the level of access you have to the server configuration. If the web page is mostly static html, you may want to use mod_rewrite to handle cases where a page doesn't actually exist. If it is something more dynamic you could handle it with HTTP:GET parameters ("...index.php?keyword={keyword:default}"). Whatever solution you choose, my understanding is that it is important for quality score reasons to appropriately handle the default case and make sure that relevant content is served for your targeting and keyword choices. AdParams in destination URLs is a very valuable tool, but should be used carefully. https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/latest/AdParamService -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en