Hi Taylor, My suggestion would be to get in touch with your Google Account manager. If it is a one-time bulk update, I'm sure they will help you find a good workaround for the issue.
Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Monday, February 25, 2013 11:41:41 PM UTC+5:30, Taylor wrote: > > In general, those are valid concerns. However, in our specific case we are > talking about doing this: > > Current URL: > http://www.foo.com/somePage/?a=g&b=123456 > > New URL: > http://www.foo.com/somePage/?a=g&b=123&c=12345678 > > > The new parameter does not affect the content of the landing page. It > simply allows better tracking via various logging and analytics systems. > This is far less "invasive" than many bid management systems are, which > overwrite the entire URL with a click tracking URL that then redirects to > the originally defined destination. > > Are we stuck? Do we just have to test the hypothesis on some low traffic > keywords and see what happens? > > > > On Monday, February 25, 2013 12:13:30 AM UTC-8, Zweitze wrote: >> >> Maybe your team is worried about this: >> >> Google requires that all URLs (the destination URLs of ads and keywords, >> and the visible URLs of ads) within one group all point to the same domain. >> When the destination URLs are redirected to other URLs, Google looks at the >> final destination URL. It gets more complicated when you use subdomains, >> check out the display URL >> policy<http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=175906> >> . >> >> Further, Google keeps a quality score of all keywords, and the quality >> score is partly determined by the contents of the landing page where the >> user is taken - and the response time of the webserver too. So, if you >> change the URLs Google will recalculate the quality score, and that score >> could be less than it is now. >> >> I hope this helps. >> >> >> On Friday, February 22, 2013 7:36:06 PM UTC+1, Taylor Lilley wrote: >>> >>> This is an ongoing debate at my company. We run massive Adwords >>> accounts. I need to automate adding or changing query string parameters on >>> large numbers of keywords. Our SEM team is nervous that this could cause >>> the Adwords editorial staff to disable large numbers of keywords while they >>> review the changes (effectively killing traffic). >>> >>> I can understand why changing the domain or page in the URL might cause >>> this. But changing the query string should not, I would think. >>> >>> Can anybody confirm/deny this possibility? >>> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
