3 messages in com.googlegroups.adwords-apiRe: Getting the info from the gclid u...
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DrZootron19 Feb 2008 15:32 
Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)20 Feb 2008 04:23 
rmorris21 Feb 2008 08:52 
Subject:Re: Getting the info from the gclid using the adwords api
From:rmorris (rmor@enquisite.com)
Date:02/21/2008 08:52:54 AM
List:com.googlegroups.adwords-api

You have to change the destinationURL of the ads and add in some parameters to find this.

Set it like this: http://domain.com/index.html?type={ifsearch:search}{ifcontent:content}&keyword={keyword}&adid={creative}&placement={placement}

While google doesn't seem to have a published doc on what these do, it works like this:

The parameters inside {} get substituted at ad display time. ifsearch:string substitutes 'string' into the URL if it was on the search network ifcontent:string substitutes 'string' into the URL if it was on the content network keyword is the keyword that triggered the ad, but not necessarily what the user searched on creative is the adid from the API placement is the website the ad ran on, if on the content network.

There might be more parameters available, but I've been unable to get an answer to that. I can tell you that {campaignid} and {adgroupid} don't seem to work, unfortunately.

Rick

On Feb 19, 3:33 pm, DrZootron <iwan@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to extract campaign name and add group from gclid?

I would like to extract via AdWords API tool campaign name and ad group (of course I have user name and pass to account with this ad)