Hi mm,
It's my understanding that the tracking template will not be ignored in
this case, but you could potentially generate invalid URLs if you place
{unescapedlpurl} at any point except the beginning of your tracking
template (for the reasons I mentioned in my previous email).
Thanks,
Josh, AdWords API Team
On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 6:47:33 PM UTC-4, mm wrote:
>
> No, I was primarily concerned that there was some reason on your end that
> using {unescapedlpurl} at the end of my tracking template (which directs
> traffic to a 3rd party tracker) would be ignored for my DSAs and I would
> have untracked traffic. So far, using {unescapedlpurl} at the end of my
> template appears to be working fine - even for DSA's. However, my DSA tests
> are a sample size of one at this point, so I'm still wary :)
>
> -mm
>
> On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 5:22:45 PM UTC-5, Josh Radcliff (AdWords
> API Team) wrote:
>>
>> Hi mm,
>>
>> I'm still trying to get a definitive answer for you on this. One piece of
>> information I did get was that the reason you can set a
>> *trackingUrlTemplate* at the campaign or account level that wouldn't be
>> considered valid for a specific DSA is that the campaign or account level
>> template could be used for other ad types, criteria, sitelinks, etc. that
>> are not in DSA campaigns.
>>
>> I'm curious: with *unescapedlpurl *at anywhere but the beginning of the
>> URL, are you concerned about invalid URLs being generated? It seems that
>> you could wind up with some questionable URLs with that approach, e.g., a
>> URL that repeats the protocol.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh, AdWords API Team
>>
>> On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 10:36:59 AM UTC-4, mm wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Josh -
>>> Any update on this? We're moving into our upgrade process & would sure
>>> appreciate it if we could get a resolution on this.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> mm
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 9:09:08 AM UTC-5, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API
>>> Team) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi mm,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for sending over the request ID. I was able to reproduce the
>>>> behavior you described, but then things got interesting. :)
>>>>
>>>> According to our DynamicSearchAd documentation
>>>> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201502/AdGroupAdService.DynamicSearchAd>
>>>> :
>>>>
>>>> *{unescapedlpurl} can only be used at the beginning of the URL field.
>>>> It will be replaced with the full landing page URL of the displayed ad.
>>>> Extra query parameters can be added to the end, e.g.:
>>>> "{unescapedlpurl}?lang=en".*
>>>>
>>>> However, I was able to create a *DynamicSearchAd* with the following
>>>> *trackingUrlTemplate*:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.example.com/?{_cust1}&lpurl={unescapedlpurl}
>>>>
>>>> I'm following up with the upgraded URLs team to determine precisely
>>>> what's going on here. I'll let you know as soon as I have more information.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Josh, AdWords API Team
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 10:21:00 PM UTC-4, mm wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure - here's one:
>>>>>
>>>>> <requestId>000517c860f796900abfa015f100fce8</requestId>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can certainly generate more if needed!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 3:54:51 PM UTC-5, Josh Radcliff (AdWords
>>>>> API Team) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi mm,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would you happen to have the request IDs from the failed attempts at
>>>>>> creating a DSA with {unescapedlpurl}? I'd like to look up those
>>>>>> requests so I can investigate further.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Josh, AdWords API Team
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 1:59:43 PM UTC-4, mm wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey guys -
>>>>>>> I've got a question about tracking templates. As we move to
>>>>>>> upgradedUrls, we plan to move towards a model where we specify the
>>>>>>> tracking
>>>>>>> template at the campaign level and override where needed (likely at the
>>>>>>> adgroup). For a search campaign, the tracking template looks something
>>>>>>> like
>>>>>>> this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://tracking.com/redirector?kwid={targetid}x{adgroupid}x{campaignid}&adid={creative}&url={unescapedlpurl}
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now I'm going through and setting a tracking template at various
>>>>>>> levels in an account to test my changes. This has been working great so
>>>>>>> far. Data coming in to the tracking server looks good, etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can create a DSA with no tracking template of its own in a
>>>>>>> campaign with this tracking template. But when I tried to create a DSA
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> its own tracking template in this format, the create failed
>>>>>>> with AdError.INVALID_DSA_URL_TAG. After changing the template to use
>>>>>>> {escapedlpurl}
>>>>>>> I could create the DSA.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So the question I really have is what happens when a DSA with no
>>>>>>> tracking template of its own is served and the template at a higher
>>>>>>> level
>>>>>>> uses {unescapedlpurl}? Why is that acceptable yet a DSA with the
>>>>>>> same template is not? It strikes me as problematic that I could have a
>>>>>>> template at a higher level that isn't considered valid at lower levels.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks -
>>>>>>> mm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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