Hello,
It seems that adCenter doesn't url encode its query strings ! That's more than annoying when it comes to keywords and search queries ! Some of our tracking data are corrupted, and I trust that in some cases the links could end up on a blank page !!!! We are losing trafic !
It's incredible that nobody realized that before, and it should be fixed as soon as possible !
Go to http://search.msn.fr and type the following search query : nouvelles frontières
Get the link of the first ad :
Nouvelles Frontières - www.nouvelles-frontieres.fr
Découvrez toutes nos offres pour organiser au mieux vos vacances !
The destination url in adCenter is :
http://k.keyade.com/k/?cl=41140&id=18265492397&kw={keyword}&nt=search&cr={AdId}&kws={QueryString}
Then check the headers ! (you can do that using Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer - http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html, or using telnet)
HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
Location: http://k.keyade.com/k/?cl=41140&id=18265492397&kw=voyages nouvelles frontieres&nt=search&cr=11780732&kws=voyages nouvelles frontières
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
p3p: CP="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo"
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Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Set-Cookie: MSClick=dc59b2db046a67766aea03a449dc273482ed16661e4df385d0c0422ece0d2cc003dccb4b4fad67149d883b050078fe3259f8fbf5b48062ccb32f16e8abb702bfa8dc3f9066ce38f0484f472244894526eb972977efb10b; expires=Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:14:32 GMT; domain=.r.msn.com; path=/; httponly
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:14:32 GMT
Connection: close
Even the link in the body isn't encoded ...
Regards,
Guillaume