URL clarification - url, finalUrls, finalMobileUrls, and finalUrls ...

[BDCoder]

Are the finalUrls and finalMobileUrls fields of an Ad used in the production environment of AdWords?

For example, if I have two URLs, as follows:

Desktop URL = http://www.mysite.com/details.html

Mobile URL = http://www.mysite.com/m/details.html

Can I set the "finalUrls" and "finalMobileUrls" fields of an Ad so that the proper URL will be used depending on the detected device?

Also, if using the above fields, do I still have to set the "url" field of the ad regardless?

And lastly, where does the "finalUrls" field fit into the scheme of things (when required, etc).

Is there anything in the docs that fully describes the above URL fields?

Thanks!

[BDCoder]

Found this -- but am still looking for a full description of the fields I mentioned...

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/upgraded-urls

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

1. Yes, the user will be sent to the right version of the url depending on the detected device.

2. No, url needn't be set if you set finalUrl.

Url field will eventually go away, and will be replaced by the finalUrls fields

- FinalUrl is where you want your customer to land.

- FinalMobileUrls may be used if you have a separate landing page for mobile devices.

- trackingTemplate, if you want to set a tracker url for your site for analytics purposes

- customParameters, if you want to add custom parameters to your tracking url.

Today, users handle all these cases in the destination url itself - something like http://tracker.example.com/?myid=123&continue={ifmobile:mysite.com/foo}{ifnotmobile:mobile.mysite.com/foo}. With the new set of fields, you can set this like

finalUrl: mysite.com/foo

finalMobileUrl: mobile.mysite.com/foo

customParameters: {_myid: 123}

trackingTempate: http://tracker.example.com/?myid={_myid}&continue={lpurl}

Does that make sense?

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

[BDCoder]

Anash,

Yes -- makes perfect sense ... thank-you...

Now -- a while back there was a form posted to signup to be white listed so we could use the upgraded URLs (see form at: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/upgradeurls/ )

Does "upgraded" URL's mean the final* URL's??

Or to put it another way, If I create ads with FinalUrl and FinalMobileUrl, will those ads function property in a production environment or are we restricted to the test environment until we we receive an OK that we are "white listed"?

Thanks again.

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

Yes, upgraded URLs = all the final* urls and settings around it. By default, this works only for your test accounts. Once your account is whitelisted for the feature (through the signup form), your calls will start working against production accounts, and ads will function properly.

Cheers,
Anash

[BDCoder]

Hi Anash,

Signed up (twice) using the whitelist request form -- no reply any ETA on when we know if we are whitelisted -- I am stalled because I want to use the final URL's in production...

Thanks again.