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Filtering out illegal characters for AdWords Traffic Estimator

Anyone have a solution...

         

skibum

4:07 am on Jul 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

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...other than not getting them in there in the first place? Stuff like ` ~ keyword -phrase instead of keyword-phrase, extra " or [ characters or non US characters?

Happens when clients insist on pulling everything out of their log files to put through there. Traffic estimator just tells you you have ilegal characters but not what they are and doesn't filter them out.

How do you deal with this if/when you encounter it so that you can put the full list through?

Receptional Andy

3:48 pm on Jul 23, 2007 (gmt 0)



A bit of a vague response perhaps, but could you not use a regular expression to filter the data before you put it into traffic estimator?