Thanks Eric, Certainly appreciate the API team looking into this. I know it's sort of playing semantics a bit, but I have to disagree with your assertion that a ProductAd doesn't have a destination URL. It's certainly true that no destination URL is stored within AdWords. However, the destination URL absolutely does exist. It's simply housed within the Merchant Center data warehouse rather than the AdWords data warehouse.
At the time of ad serving, AdWords communicates with Merchant Center in order to grab the destination URL. Therefore, AdWords should be able to communicate with Merchant Center at the time of report generation to once again grab that same URL. Granted, this is an AdWords functionality issue, not specifically an API issue. On Jan 6, 6:07 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > Hi, > > A ProductAd doesn't have a destination URL, and the API doesn't let > you set one. The URLs used come from the product itself. Because of > this it makes sense that the ad report wouldn't contain the URLs. I > understand that there is a need to get stats about how well different > products perform, and I'll work with the core engineering team to > determine what can be done. > > Best, > - Eric > > On Jan 5, 9:33 am, CFJ <jmccart...@crutchfield.com> wrote: > > > > > Just chiming in with a second voice on the importance of this issue. > > All of the various reports absolutely need to have destination URL > > populated when reporting on PLAs. Embedding tracking parameters > > within landing page URLs is a pretty industry-standard method for > > tying clicks to conversions. Without destination URL in the > > reporting, it's nearly impossible to analyze any granularity with > > respect to PLAs (unless of course one chooses to implement this such > > that each AdGroup contains a target for one, and only one, product).- Hide > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
