The following presents a guideline on how Vindico standard and rich media tags should be edited to count clicks in Google Ad Manager. In order to track clicks follow the procedure below:
IFRAME Code
Original Code
You should have received some IFRAME code from Vindico that looks similar to the following example:
<iframe src="https://x3.vindicosuite.com/serve/?v=8;m=1;2=987562;c=354698;b=9872461;a=38754;ts=%%TIMESTAMP%%;ad=cjlv3vK2fl4T822Kb3AjzDtUOgEgrSHnimdsH1AH3iDHmSGLnVTFpNm2GPA3R2YWVdXQXJh3tpUE5pOzVd8gauyhHq5Jb2aDFROMdWAiANlOXaJ9WUYItL;ep=1;pm=1" width="300" height="250" border="0" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" scrolling="NO"></iframe>Modified Code
What you need to do is modify the URL in the <IFRAME> tag as shown by the highlighted changes, The resulting tag should look similar to the following example:
<iframe src="https://x3.vindicosuite.com/serve/?v=8;m=1;2=987562;c=354698;b=9872461;a=38754;ts=%%CACHEBUSTER%%;ad=cjlv3vK2fl4T822Kb3AjzDtUOgEgrSHnimdsH1AH3iDHmSGLnVTFpNm2GPA3R2YWVdXQXJh3tpUE5pOzVd8gauyhHq5Jb2aDFROMdWAiANlOXaJ9WUYItL;ep=1;pm=1;pbsmc=%%CLICK_URL_ESC%%" width="300" height="250" border="0" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" scrolling="NO"></iframe>Note
The ad server recognises the [timestamp] placeholder and will automatically replace it with a cache buster. It is not necessary to convert it to the %%CACHEBUSTER%% macro manually.
Use %%CLICK_URL_UNESC%% at the beginning of a link. Use %%CLICK_URL_ESC%% when the click-tracker is the parameter of another URL.
<a href="%%CLICK_URL_UNESC%%https://www.google.com">link</a>
<a href="https://www.google.com?rd_url=%%CLICK_URL_ESC%%">link</a>