Is there a less intrusive way to add query string parameters to ad destination URLs?

2013-10-17 Thread HK
Hi, guys We are managing close to a million ads and every so often, there's a need to update the ad destination URLs, for example by adding the {device} value track parameter. As you know, ads can't be modified except for their status, so we end up disrupting customers' ads and performance by

Re: Is there a less intrusive way to add query string parameters to ad destination URLs?

2013-10-21 Thread Danial Klimkin
Hello Hans, There is no easy way to update URLs and this is a product decision (not specific to the API). You can use ValueTrack to have some dynamic parameters: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375447?hl=en One of the options can be to create new ads first and wait for them to be

Re: Is there a less intrusive way to add query string parameters to ad destination URLs?

2013-10-21 Thread HK
Hi, Danial Thanks for your the reply. Leaving the old ads active until the new ones are approved is an option, but gets a little convoluted when you have a very large number of ads and often bump up against the max number of ads you can have in an ad group, I believe it's currently 25. So you'd