Value track parameter for campaign and adgroup in upgraded urls

[Juergen Henning]

Hi,

the new concept for upgraded urls sounds very interesting and we are evaluating the benefits to our customers at the moment. One of the advantage is, that one can set a tracking url on an entity above an ad, keyword or siteliink - at campaign and/or adgroup level. However the customer wants to know how many clicks are tracked at campaign and adgroup level. Therefore we need campaign and adgroup information in the tracking url. I would be very nice, if one can set a generic tracking url at account level without the lost of campaign and adgroup information.

The solution to this problem could be value track parameter for campaign an adgroup names. In this example, the tracking looks like the following example:

http://tracking.com/?campaign={campaign}&group={adgroup}&keyword={keyword}&url={lpage}&....

Is there any plan to implement such a feature?

Regards

Juergen

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Juergen,

We're aware that there's interest in this feature, but it's not currently available. One way you could work around this would be to set up Ad Group-level tracking URLs where you embed the IDs yourself, e.g., for Campaign 1234 and Ad Group 999 you could set up a tracking URL like this:

http://tracking.com/?campaign=1234&adgroup=999&keyword={keyword}&url={lpage}&....

Of course, you would have to do this on every Ad Group, which may not be terribly convenient.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Juergen Henning]

Hi Josh,

thank you very mich for the answer. Maybe there is such a functionality in the future.

Cheers
Jürgen