| Track Click Throughs in Real Time | Duncan79 | 5/17/12 9:57 AM | Hello I'm brand new to DFP but I wondered if it was possible to receive click throughs in real time? For example, User A clicks on an Ad - I would like to receive notification (probably by pinging my server) that he clicked on that ad. I can then st |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | Duncan79 | 5/21/12 5:45 AM | I'm just wondering if this is supported by the "click" parameter here? http://support.google.com/richmedia/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=117426 e.g. user clicks on ad, DFP pings our web page, we record the click against that user, DFP redirects to lan |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | oncalladops | 5/21/12 9:08 AM | not sure on your idea for a workaround...DFP does NOT do such a thing...and honestly...thank goodness. I run DFP for sites and if I got a ping each time...I'd be insane! Too many pings. This is a feature that you will have to develop on your side.. |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | Duncan79 | 5/21/12 9:13 AM | Hi Rainey Thanks for replying. I'm even more confused now though! As I was sure (given that link above) and looking at other DFP enabled sites that there is a click URL that is separate from the actual landing page. I have a gut feel, in this day |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | oncalladops | 5/21/12 9:27 AM | Duncan, this is not a service that DFP provides. The only "notification" is when the reporting is run. DFP tracks the clicks and keeps track of it. You do not get to see who clicked or where they came from...this isn't analytics...only the fact th |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | Duncan79 | 5/21/12 11:12 AM | But isn't a Click Macro what I want? http://support.google.com/dfp_sb/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79255 |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | oncalladops | 5/21/12 11:15 AM | a click macro will enable clicks to be tracked by DFP. a click macro will NOT alert you that clicks have occurred. If all you want is to track the clicks, then yes...that is fine. You have been saying that you want notification of clicks...which DF |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | Duncan79 | 5/21/12 11:21 AM | You're absolutely right - I do want a notification that someone has clicked on an ad! This is basically so we can feed it back in to our customer database; e.g. user sees ad for a Ford car, clicks it, we get notification, we update user's profile to |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | Duncan79 | 5/21/12 11:22 AM | Oh, and BTW, when I say "notification" - I mean AUTOMATIC notification (e.g. it pings a web service to say "UPDATE THIS USER WITH THIS AD CHOICE") not an email! :) |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | oncalladops | 5/21/12 11:23 AM | no idea...I do ad ops...not that development stuff! :-) I would assume that it would...but the only cookies I'm truly knowledgeable about...well let's just say that they usually have chocolate chips in them! :-) This is very outside of the norm... |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | Duncan79 | 5/21/12 1:14 PM | Well that makes me feel a bit better at least! :) |
| Re: Track Click Throughs in Real Time | oncalladops | 5/21/12 2:04 PM | cool...I was good for something today...yay! :-) have fun developing that... |