Tracking Url's

Best way to do it

[graywolf]

Ok, so I am new to adwords but ready to jump in. Reading the TOS the back button is supposed to bring you back to google. I intended to use a tracking domain and then redirect to the landing page on a different domain, but don't think that would work. Am I better off just putting a paramter on the landing page, or is there another solution?

[nerowolfe]

Actually HTTP redirects should work just fine -- it's only the javascript redirects that can screw up the back button. We're using HTTP redirects for our tracking and haven't had any problems. Nice username by the way :-)

[graywolf]

If I do this in htaccess it doesn't seem to show in the logs of the tracking domain, did I misunderstand?

redirect 301 /trackingpage.html [example.com...]

ps maybe we need a wolfpack here at WW ;-)

[nerowolfe]

Hmm, what webserver are you using? I would have expected to see log entries for .htaccess redirects, but I could be wrong. Our tracking requests go through a CGI process which writes its own log file, so we don't use the webserver log at all.

[graywolf]

NeroWolfe you're correct it does appear in the log. After doing some checking I found out there was a small lag time between when the request was made and it was written to the log. Thanks for your help that worked perfectly.