HTML bookmarks

Did AdWords ever support these?

[patient2all]

Hey,

Anyone know if AdWords ever supported HTML bookmarks in destination URLs? As in:

http://www.example.com/index.html#SECTION2

I see they get stripped off. I find it hard to believe that was always the case since I think I would have noticed. I thought they took everything up to their own '&ai=' session variable (?) as part of the destination URL.

Thanks,

patient2all

[patient2all]

** bump **

Sorry, but I really need to know anyone's recollections on this!

patient2all

[eWhisper]

I believe once upon a time, those URLs worked fine. (I don't have any accounts running them right now, so taking your work that they're not working right now, and trying to recall an account I worked on several months ago).

I also think that the Google redirect on some of these strings didn't always apply the URL correctly.

I did find out that in many cases this was a browser error and not a Google error. For instance, the browser I most commonly use (Avant) often has problems with those URLs unless you're already on the page and jumping to a link point, or using strict markup.

The solution for this particular account was to use an ad tracker which served as a redirect, so the ad tracker's url was in Google, the #link was in the ad tracker, and the redirects worked quite well, until proper landing pages could be implemented that were more tightly focused.

[patient2all]

Thanks, eWhisper for the response. You can always be counted on as the resident Google historian :)

I also think that the Google redirect on some of these strings didn't always apply the URL correctly.

That I have seen. However on June 8th, a friend wrote me saying hers were not working. I asked that she check her syntax without investigating further.

Then the other day, my wife clicked on an ad and asked me why I wasn't directing them to the relevant section anymore.

I didn't want to give up too easily on them, so I wrote a script that takes a query string and reforms the URI into a bookmark. If #BOOKMARKS are now a deprecated feature, I'm going to do something more sophisticated.

The bookmarks always worked fine in IE & Netscape (except if you had earlier HTML errors on the page). To be frank, I didn't worry about Avant since I expect those (few?) users are savvy enough to scroll where they want to reach on the page.

I'm going to move away from #BOOKMARKS anyway, they're so 1997!

Thanks for the input!

patient2all

[patient2all]

I'm more confused than ever!

Email support says that HTML bookmark anchors are fully supported.

Live chat says it's a known issue with the Internet Explorer Browser and your team can't fix it.

They worked fine until June.

What's the deal, AWA?

patient2all