Adwords Sourcecode: "/pagead/iclk" vs. "/url"

What dose it mean?

[Sujan]

I played with Google and its source code a litte bit today and doing this I discovered that Adwords-Ads can have two different click urls/tracking urls:

1. /pagead/iclk?adurl=http://www.example.org&sa=l&ai=x&num=x
or
2. /url?sa=l&q=http://www.example.org&ai=x&num=x

(ai is a tracking-id or something, num is the position of the ad)

Does anybody know more about it or what it means?

- Jan

[wayne]

I believe the first type of link is with
advertisers that are using Google's conversion
tracking, and the second type is advertisers
that are not using the converstion tracking
feature.

[Sujan]

Thank you! Will try to find out if you're right...

- Jan

[Sujan]

Sorry wayne,

but you're not right with your idea. I just checked an ad of mine 2 times, its conversion tracking is disabled, and once it had "/pagead/iclk" as url, the other time it was "/url".

- Jan

[wayne]

Well, I thought maybe that was what it was,
because when I use the tracking conversion
option, my urls show as pagead/iclk?, but when
I turn the conversion tracking off they become
the url? type.

[Sujan]

AdwordsAdvisor, could you perhaps ask someone at Google?

- Jan

[AdWordsAdvisor]

AdwordsAdvisor, could you perhaps ask someone at Google?

Sure, I'll see what I can do Sujan. This is probably a good time to mention, though, that I'll be away from the office from Friday through Monday.

So I'll be back to posting on Tuesday.

AWA