– Updated 21st April : placement ids by tool
– Updated 20th April : url encoding.
Hi all,
I thought it would useful for us to post some of the common mistakes people are making when creating their updated links. The best way to avoid this is to regenerate your link via the Tools section in the interface but if you are building your own then watch out for:
1. Be careful of putting spaces in your link either within the id fields or in the destination url.
2. Make sure you ‘url encode’ the eBay destination url (after mpre= ) and if you are using the customid and you have any special characters within it, this will need to be url encoded too.
* Url encoding by the API and unicode escaping will be addressed asap.
3. In the link you need to put your campaign id after campid= . Make sure you are putting the number rather than the name of the campaign. You can get this number from the ‘Campaign’ tab in the interface.
4. The default toolid is 10001 for the link generator. If you are using 1 or 0 then please update to 10001. The toolid will be different for the links created by the API, RSS etc.
5. Ensure you are using the right placementid for the country you want to promote. Note the placementids will vary by tool within the program but the list of placementids for the link generator can be found in the migration guide.
As we find out more common errors we’ll post them so keep checking back; don’t forget we really appreciate all your hard work during this migration period!
