Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2016-03-24 Thread Dorian Kind
Because I keep coming back to this topic to look for the documentation link: The Help Center article Josh mentioned seems to have moved here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6305348 On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 4:04:18 PM UTC+1, Dorian Kind wrote: > > Hi Josh, > > great news

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-11-05 Thread Dorian Kind
Hi Josh, great news indeed! Thanks a lot for your update. Best regards, Dorian On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 3:59:27 PM UTC+1, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Dorian, > > I have great news: this feature was added recently. Please check out the > updated *Tracking template

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-11-05 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Dorian, I have great news: this feature was added recently. Please check out the updated *Tracking template only* section of this Help Center article: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375447?hl=en#params In particular, the area starting with the *Important* box and below covers

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-11-03 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Dorian, I don't have any news at this point, but I'll check in with the upgraded URLs team again and let you know if they have an update. Thanks, Josh, AdWords API Team On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 12:11:57 PM UTC-5, Dorian Kind wrote: > > Hey Josh, > > any news on this topic? The current

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-11-02 Thread Dorian Kind
Hey Josh, any news on this topic? The current situation makes it very hard to use tracking templates for DSA campaigns because there's no way to tell whether the final URL of the dynamically generated ad already contains a query string separator or not. Thanks for any feedback and best

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-06-18 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Pete, Thanks for the suggestion. I'll pass this along to the upgraded URLs team. Cheers, Josh, AdWords API Team On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 9:56:11 AM UTC-4, pete wrote: Completely agree with Mark - Google have used some run-time logic to append params with the appropriate param

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-06-17 Thread pete
Completely agree with Mark - Google have used some run-time logic to append params with the appropriate param delimiter in the past. In fact - a Value Track parameter {delim} would be perfect. What say you Google? pete -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-06-04 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Ralf, If you have a common pattern of mobile vs. desktop URLs (e.g., final URL always has parameters but final mobile URL does not), you could use the *ifmobile* and *ifnotmobile* parameters mentioned in *Example #6* here https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375447?hl=en to specify

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-06-01 Thread ralf.s
Hello Josh, what if final-url contains parameters and final-mobile-url not? Would it be possible, to set a correct tracking-template with additional parameters? I think NOT. Kind Regards Ralf Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2015 22:39:52 UTC+2 schrieb Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team): Hi Ralf, The

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-05-20 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Ralf, The {lpurl} parameter will be escaped unless it's at the beginning of your tracking template. If that parameter value is escaped, will you still have the problem with two question marks since the one coming from *lpurl* will have an escaped question mark? Thanks, Josh, AdWords API

Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-05-19 Thread ralf.s
Hello, we want to use tracking templates on adgroup level (or higher). We would like to set it to eg. {lpurl}?para2=value Will this work for all final URLs of all ads and keywords in this adgroup? What happens, if a final URL already contains a question mark? eg.

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-05-19 Thread Mark
To answer your question directly... If you have a mix of urls with and without pre-existing parameters (ie the ? char), you must find a way to separate them when building tracking templates, and manually use ? for the ones without parms and for the ones with parms. Another workaround

Re: Tracking Template on AdGroup Level (or higher)

2015-05-19 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Ralf, The substitution is a simple replacement, so in your example, you would get the URL from option #1. You may want to check out our *Upgraded URLs* presentation on the AdWords API Workshops site http://www.adwordsapiworkshops.com/#res, as it contains both a video of the presentation