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Hello.

I've set our URLs to http://rd.business.com/index.asp?bdcu=0049285C-C6CB-4304-9007-C9814A2585FC&mkt=46755&mkw=s%5F{keyword}%5F{AdID}%5F%5F{MatchType}
but it appears that after a user is clicking on the ad, MSN is redirecting the user to the URL that has no insertions and has { and } replaced with escape characters, e.g.

http://rd.business.com/index.asp?bdcu=0049285C-C6CB-4304-9007-C9814A2585FC&mkt=46755&mkw=s%5F%7Bkeyword%7D%5F%7BAdID%7D%5F%5F%7BMatchType%7D

Also, some documentation says {AdId} and some {AdID}. Is it case-sensitive?

Thanks,

Maxim

Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:18 AM

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I have an update.

As time went on, the number of URLs without insertions has decreased. The pattern of change was weird though:

1. First, some insertions began to work, in order of appearance, from left to right. For example, we started to receive clicks where URL had {keyword} insertion, thought {adID} and {MatchType} would still be in failing and URL would contain %7BAdID%7B and %7BMatchType%7B

2. Then adID insertion began to work

3. MatchType insertion is working now again.

Buf if {keyword} insertion did not work, then the rest of insertions did not work either.

Now only relatively small portion of traffic had corrupted/failed insertions.

I'd like MSN to escalate this issue and fix it ASAP.

Maxim

Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:26 PM