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Alexander Schimpf
Alexander Schimpf

Reputation: 2392

Tracking Google DFP Ad Clicks in ASP.NET

I am wondering if it is possible to track when a user of a website clicks on a Google DFP ad. I know that the Google DFP website tracks clicks, but I want to be able to track which users (when logged in, using ASP.NET membership) are clicking ads and how many ads. Is this possible?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1149

Answers (1)

Duncan
Duncan

Reputation: 10291

I've been asking a similar question and haven't found an answer yet!

The closest I've come is this - http://support.google.com/richmedia/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=117426

To track clicks using your own click-tracking server, you must include an attribute in the ad tags that specifies the URL for the server. The URL is accessed every time that a user clicks on an ad, enabling your server to count the click. This attribute is click=value, where value is the URL for the clicktracking server. The click-tracking URL should not contain any semicolons (;). If necessary, you can encode semicolons as the equivalent %3B characters.

The sample URL below shows an ad tag with an implemented click attribute:

http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N270.maheshdfasite/B3140338.2;dcopt=1_ist;click=http://site.com/cgi/clicktrack?clickid=12345&page=abcd&goto=;sz=0x0;ord=[timestamp]?

so it looks like you could put a URL to your website inside the click handler.

Is this specific to rich media (e.g. flash ads) ? I don't know!

Upvotes: 1

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