> For entertainment, try an Adwords ad that links to your listing and > watch it not get approved because the url doesn't work.
I also had trouble with AdWords. The official blog said it supported ads for Android Market apps, but when I went in the form didn't support the market protocol URL and the link checker declined the http protocol URL saying bad status code. Blog here: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-targeting-options-for-mobile-ads.html URLs as specified here: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.html I went in just now, however, and tried to edit the ad and resubmit to see if it was fixed. That didn't work, it stayed declined. I stuck an extra parameter on the end, however, and it tried again. The status went from eligible to approved this time. So I currently have an approved ad with display URL "market.android.com/net.fizzl.ski" (the official blog claimed you should do "market.android.com/" and the app name, but the form rejects spaces, so the package name was the closest I could do) and destination URL "http://market.android.com/details? id=net.fizzl.ski&referrer=test_ad". Amusingly, playing with some more ads, I can even get it to approve one for destination URL "http://market.android.com/net.fizzl.ski"; (the blog claimed the form should auto-fill itself out when you enter a proper display URL, and this is what you get from doing the package name thing above). That's broken both on Android phones with market and all other devices, though. So apparently they've gone from rejecting valid URLs to accepting invalid URLs. At least with the current buggy behavior you can at least get an Android ad approved, however, whereas with the previous buggy behavior you could only get declined. Who knows if it will even work, though, ha. The blog claims it should show a download link instead of a URL, but I don't get that when I visit the desktop version of AdWords on my Android phone where it shows how the ad looks. Clicking the link there does work, though, and opens the market details page. You may also want to set the Android only targeting manually since the official blog seems so wrong on everything else it is probably wrong on the auto-targeting too. On Nov 16, 4:45 pm, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > The link to your listing will return 404 on anything besides an > Android. Yes really. To get a link that will work, you might have to > use Android Zoom or another Market scraper. > > For entertainment, try an Adwords ad that links to your listing and > watch it not get approved because the url doesn't work. > > And just wait for Google to penalize your website for having a broken > link. :( > > Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
