Building correct DestinationUrl with AdID and AdGroupID

[worldtourism]

Hi i am pretty new to the Adwords API and i am using the .net client
library.
Our company is building the DestinationUrls to look like

http://www.domain.com.au/?k={keyword}&a={creative}&s=1
a={creative} is our add id.

We are tyring to build our own tracking with the API but from our
understanding The adID is only unique per Adgroup so to have it in the
destination URL by itself is useless. Is there a way to automatically
include an adgroupID into the URL?

If not what is the best practice to track when an ad is clicked?
currently we were trying to use the "Service.getAd(Me.AdGroupID,
adID)" from the client library to get an adobject from the API but
this requires me to have an AdgroupID.

Do you have to know the AdgroupID in order to track when an ad is
clicked? or is there another solution?
Thankyou in advance for your help

[AdWords API Advisor]

Hello,

My understanding is that there is no way to automatically insert the
ad group id into a creative's destination URL. For what it's worth,
this URL replacement functionality isn't a feature of the AdWords API--
it's an AdWords feature called ValueTrack. A few of the tags are
mentioned in our Help Center

https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14816

and there are many blogs out there that include information about
other available tags that you could find if you search for "AdWords
ValueTrack". (I don't know why the other ValueTrack tags aren't
documented in the AdWords Help Center.)

Because it's not an AdWords API feature, you might get more input
from folks if you post in the general AdWords forum, at

http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-help

but again, I don't believe that campaign or ad group ids can be
exposed using ValueTrack. Your best bet might be to use a product like
Google Analytics that offers integration with AdWords to track your
web traffic.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team


On Oct 27, 7:37 pm, worldtourism <david.tay...@worldtourism.com.au>
wrote:

[worldtourism]

Thankyou for your reply,

For this project we cannot use google analytics.

If i import my campaigns on a daily basis keeping our local db insync
with adwords
can i assume that the {creative} tag will be unique and i can just
store that the customer came in off that link?

Is there a better way to manage your own tracking of Adwords ads?


On Oct 29, 1:32 am, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com>
wrote:

[AdWords API Advisor]

Hello,

Creative IDs are only guaranteed to be unique within their ad group,
so you'd have to account for the possibility of having multiple
creatives with the same ID in your account--there's no way around
that. Depending on your tolerance for ambiguous data this may or may
not be a deal breaker.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team

On Nov 2, 10:41 pm, worldtourism <david.tay...@worldtourism.com.au>
wrote: