Live ignores words inside curly brackets
Posted by manticor | Under Point Google Thursday Jan 15, 2009In the course of my day I was asked a question about the right syntax for Adcenter to insert the Match Type into the destination URL.
Somebody asked me if this looks right:
http://www.domain.com/trackingurl?kw={keyword}&match={MatchType}
I answered that it looked right… but I wanted to make sure, so I searched for {matchtype} adcenter insert. Here’s what I got:
I was fully expecting to see examples of this syntax right within the snippets of the search results, giving me the only confirmation I needed. Alas, Live had not a single reference to the bracketed word, while Google had numerous examples.
