Allowable site target urls?

Some forms seem disallowed.

[rbacal]

Trying to site target ads to a specific page. Using

example.net/tt.php?a=Bozo%20theclown

I appears that adwords doesn't like non-alpha characters in the url. Is this correct? Any way to site target to pages with arguments in the url, or other characters?

[edited by: mona at 2:17 pm (utc) on May 21, 2006]
[edit reason] no urls, please - thx! [/edit]

[Receptional Andy]

You can use query strings and variables in URLs with no problem. In your example there is a space (that has been escaped to %20). If this is what's causing problems then you might have to rethink how you are creating these URLs:

Spaces and control characters in URLs must be escaped for transmission in HTTP.

[w3.org...]

[rbacal]

I'm still not sure what the solution is. The urls I'm trying to add to my campaign display this way (in this case with the %20) in my browser. It won't work if I replace that character with a space, or put the string in quotes. If I remove the space it ends up at the wrong page.

There's something really weird happening which seems to be some odd interaction between my computer and the adwords system.

For example if I entire example.com/specificpage.htm as a target, it is accepted by adwords, BUT when I click on it, what tries to load in my browser is:

example.com%2specificpage.htm

which always gives a problem loading page.

If I try to enter anything in the url other than a basic tld (in other words anything with symbols of any kind, adwords kicks out an error message.

Maybe I'll try from another computer, since it looks like somewhere, things are being translated.

[jtara]

Are you putting this in the destination URL or the display URL?

I can understand why they would want to avoid potentially-confusing URLs in the Display URL.

Putting spaces in a URL is pretty goofy, and I can't think of a good reason for doing so.

A good reason for keeping it that way would be "the software I am using insists on doing it this way".

Otherwise, I'd consider changing your URL scheme.

[rbacal]

Are you putting this in the destination URL or the display URL?

Neither. As the title says, it's the targeted site url.

Still stuck.

If someone who is experienced with targeting a single page, for example, for ads, perhaps they could describe the process for doing this properly. So, for example, if I want my ads to run on "example.com/page.htm" how do I set it up?

I'm sure the reason why I'm having trouble with a few things having to do with conversion of characters to ascii (e.g. the slash) is simple, but it's sure perplexing.