Using Google Adwords Conversion Tracking pixel without the script - google-ads-api

I am trying to implement Google Adwords conversion tracking within the confines of a very restrictive process management tool, which strips out any <script> content I use.
As the tracking code consists of the script and an image tag, and both include ID and conversion label, I wondered if I can use the image without the script.
i.e not this:
<!-- Google Code for CONVERSION NAME -->
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
var google_conversion_id = XXXXXXX;
var google_conversion_language = "en";
var google_conversion_format = "3";
var google_conversion_color = "ffffff";
var google_conversion_label = "YYYYYYY";
var google_remarketing_only = false;
/* ]]> */
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<div style="display:inline;">
but only this image tag:
<img height="1" width="1" style="border-style:none;" alt="" src="//www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion/XXXXXXX/?label=YYYYYYY&guid=ON&script=0"/>
And this again not:
</div>
</noscript>
Will this work? I am posting this as a question here as our system leaves few options for testing (process needs to go offline in order to implement changes).
Thanks for your help!

Yes, it will work. You can use just the image tag, in fact, when you use the script part, in the end, that code appends one image to your html.

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Google Ads - Negative conversion value

I am wondering, if conversion value for Google AdWords Pixel could be negative?
Does anyone have experience with negative google_conversion_value?
My idea is to send contribution margins instead of revenue.
This is the example from help pages (https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6331314):
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML-Beispieldatei</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Google-Code für Kauf-Conversion-Seite -->
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
var google_conversion_id = 1234567890;
var google_conversion_label = "xxx-XXx1xXXX123X1xX";
var google_remarketing_only = "false"
var google_conversion_value = 10.0;
var google_conversion_currency = "EUR"
/* ]]> */
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="//www.googleadservices.com/pagead/
conversion.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<img height=1 width=1 border=0
src="//www.googleadservices.com/pagead/
conversion/1234567890/
?value=10.0&currency_code=EUR&label=xxx-
XXx1xXXX123X1xX&guid=ON&script=0">
</noscript>
</body>
</html>
negative values are not accepted from the Google Ads Api
see
what you can also do if you don´t want to expose your margin on the page: set up a Server 2 Server communication with Google Ads API (or simply via Google Sheet if you just want to test and avoid programming)
so summing up:
On success page send no conversion value, only conversion pixel
upload daily your conversion values using Restate or Retract logic

Google Tag Assistant asks feed ID

I was asked to upgrade an existing site from using the old remarketing tracking code that looked like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var google_conversion_id = 12345;
var google_custom_params = window.google_tag_params; // this is empty
var google_remarketing_only = true;
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js">
</script>
<noscript>
<div style="display:inline;">
<img height="1" width="1" style="border-style:none;" alt="" src="//googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/12345/?value=0&guid=ON&script=0"/>
</div>
</noscript>
to another method that looks like this:
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=AW-12345"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments)};
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'AW-12345');
</script>
because it is asynchronous and should not block page loading. But the Google Tag Assistant extension that validates that tracking is set up correctly asks me to enter a "feed ID" when using the newer (gtag.js based) method. Previously it was showing Remarketing Tag as green.
Why is it needed now and not with the old code? I asked someone who has access to the AdWords account and they don't have the feed ID (or can't find it...).
I verified that the request to googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/ is sent though devtools as described in Verifiction using browser based developer tools:
https://developers.google.com/adwords-remarketing-tag/verification
Is my configuration correct?
That feed ID is related to dynamic remarketing campaigns. If you aren't running a dynamic campaign, then the feed ID shouldn't matter.
That field to enter a feed ID is there to help you with validating that your feed is working correctly.
Here is a quick video that might help clear up your questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuOUNIFo0aQ

Simple fusioncharts in MonoTouch not working

I'm trying to embed a column3d chart from fusioncharts in my MonoTouch project using UIWebView. I've added the necessary outlets and tested by using loadrequest to load a url and loadHtmlString to format a simple line of text. This works fine. I even tested that fusionchart works correctly on my browser using the below code and it does.
I have a folder named "charts" in my MonoTouch project that contains, Column3d.swf, jquery.min.js, FusionCharts.js, FusionCharts.HC.js and FusionCharts.HC.Charts.js.
In my
ViewDidLoad
string htmlString = "<html>
<head>
<script type=\"text/javascript\"src=\"Charts/jquery.min.js\">
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"Charts/FusionCharts.js\">
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"Charts/FusionCharts.HC.js\">
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"Charts/FusionCharts.HC.Charts.js\">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id=\"chartContainer\">FusionCharts will load here!
</div>
<script type=\"text/javascript\"> var myChart = new FusionCharts( \"Charts/Column3D.swf\", \"myChartId\", \"400\", \"300\", \"0\", \"1\" );myChart.setXMLUrl(\"Charts/Data.xml\");
myChart.render(\"chartContainer\");
</script>
</body>
</html>";
this.webView.LoadHtmlString (htmlString, new NSUrl ("./Charts", true));
/*string htmlString = "<html><head></head><body><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">This</span> " +
"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is</span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">some formatted</span> " +"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;text-decoration: underline;\">text!</span><br></body></html>";*/ //works
//this.webView.LoadHtmlString (htmlString, null); //works
Data.xml
<chart caption='Weekly Sales Summary'
xAxisName='Week' yAxisName='Amount' numberPrefix='$'>
<set label='Week 1' value='14400' />
<set label='Week 2' value='19600' />
<set label='Week 3' value='24000' />
<set label='Week 4' value='15700' />
</chart>
Can someone explain how I can get this working? Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I also tried
string htmlString = "<html><head> <title>Creating Pure JavaScript chart</title><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"charts/FusionCharts.js\"></script></head> <body><div id=\"chartContainer\">FusionCharts will load here!</div> <script type=\"text/javascript\">FusionCharts.setCurrentRenderer('javascript');var myChart = new FusionCharts( \"charts/Column3D.swf\", \"myChartId\", \"400\", \"300\", \"0\", \"1\" );myChart.setXMLData(\"<chart><set label='Data1' value='1' /></chart>\"); myChart.render(\"chartContainer\"); </script></body> </html>";
where i force the renderer to use javascript and set the chart parameters in the string to no avail. Anyone?
I solved my issue and thought I would post it should someone run into a similar issue.
The first thing I did was to right click on each of my javscript files ie FusionCharts.js, FusionCharts.HC.js and FusionCharts.HC.Charts.js and set their build type to content.
I then told Monotouch the build path for the charts would be contained in the charts folder by declaring
string path = NSBundle.MainBundle.BundlePath + "/Charts/";
Since I declare i am going to look in the Charts folder for related files, I then had to amend my htmlString by removing the "charts" keyword reference from all the "src" as below (since we are already lo.
string htmlString = "<html>
<head>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"jquery.min.js\">
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/FusionCharts.js\">
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/FusionCharts.HC.js\">
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"FusionCharts.HC.Charts.js\">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id=\"chartContainer\">FusionCharts will load here!
</div>
<script type=\"text/javascript\"> var myChart = new FusionCharts(\"Column3D.swf\", \"myChartId\", \"400\", \"300\", \"0\", \"1\" );myChart.setXMLUrl(\"Charts/Data.xml\");
myChart.render(\"chartContainer\");
</script>
</body>
</html>";
I then call the loadHtml string method as below with the second argument pointing to the path that contains the javascript files.
this.webView.LoadHtmlString(htmlString, new NSUrl(path, true));
I even tested that fusionchart works correctly on my browser using the below code and it does.
Did you test this with an iOS device running Safari ?
project that contains, Column3d.swf,
That looks like a Flash file and iOS (and WebKit) does not support flash.
The website hints of an HTML5 version - so if they support flash-less browser then you should be able to do what you want using MonoTouch (or anything in iOS) using FusionChart. Otherwise you might need to look at other charting products (or a server-side solution).
FusionCharts had put out a blog post showing how to get HTML5 charts in iOS devices.
Have a look at it here - http://blog.fusioncharts.com/2012/02/create-charts-for-iphone-and-ipad-apps-using-fusioncharts-xt/

JSON Not pulling data?

Can anyone fill me in as to why this isn't pulling my JSON data. I think I have the syntax correct but the page doesn't pull the data. Any thoughts?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>PhoneGap Ajax Sample</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="phonegap.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function appReady(){
var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.open("GET","http://www.lcbcchurch.com/mobileJSON/homeslideshow",true);
ajax.send();
ajax.onreadystatechange=function(){
if(ajax.readyState==4 && (ajax.status==200||ajax.status==0)){
eval('var data = ' + ajax.responseText + ';');
var theResults = data.results;
var theHTML = '';
for(var i=0;i<theResults.length;i++){
theHTML += [
'<div class="avatar"> <img src='+theResults[i].slideshow-image+' />'].join('');
}
document.getElementById('main').innerHTML = theHTML;
}
}
}
document.addEventListener("deviceready", appReady, false);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main">
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hard to tell without additional information, but:
Set ajax.onreadystatechange before you call .send() otherwise the response could, in theory, arrive before you've told the instance how to handle it - it would be entirely dependent on the browser implementation.
Secondly, are you hosting it, or trying it locally from your filesystem? In many browsers, Ajax calls don't work from the filesystem (it is considered a cross site scripting vulnerability) - so its best to install a simple webserver locally to test on - and fetch the json from that too.
Lastly, don't use eval, its evil ;-)
Use
var result = JSON.parse(string);
instead.

ui:repeat using the same client id. c:foreach works fine

I know this may have something to do with the phase each one comes in at.
If I do this.
<ui:repeat id="repeatChart" varStatus="loop" value="#{viewLines.jflotChartList}" var="jflotChart">
<p:panel>
<jflot:chart height="300" width="925" dataModel="#{jflotChart.dataSet}" dataModel2="#{jflotChart.dataSet2}"
xmin="#{jflotChart.startDateString}"
xmax="#{jflotChart.endDateString}"
shadeAreaStart ="#{jflotChart.shadeAreaStart}"
shadeAreaEnd ="#{jflotChart.shadeAreaEnd}"
lineMark="#{jflotChart.wrapSpec.benchmark}" yMin="#{jflotChart.yMin}" yMax="#{jflotChart.yMax}" />
</p:panel>
<br />
</ui:repeat>
My code will not work. Debugging the javascript shows that the same id is generated for every iteration. I've tried putting loop.index to create an id and that gives me an error saying that id can't be blank.
If I exchange the ui:repeat for a c:forEach it works fine. Debugging the javascript shows that a new id is created for each iteration.
Here is my backing code(some of it).
<div id="#{cc.id}_flot_placeholder" style="width:#{cc.attrs.width}px;height:#{cc.attrs.height}px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
$(function () {
var placeholder = $("##{cc.id}_flot_placeholder");
var overviewPlaceholder = $("##{cc.id}_flot_overview");
The id needs to be different so the javascript can render to the correct div. I've tried explicitly defining an id attribute and then passing that as the id in the client code. Like I said before that doesn't work. Thanks for any help.
**EDIT**
Here is my problem. I can't use the clientId in the div tag because of the colon character obviously. I have modified it in javascript but how would I get that value to the div. I can't get the div tag by id because I need to generate the id. I can't seem to do a document.write() either. I'm stuck at this point.
<composite:implementation>
<div id="#{cc.clientId}_flot_placeholder" style="width:400px;height:400px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
$(function () {
var clientIdOld = '#{cc.clientId}';
var clientId = clientIdOld.replace(':', '_');
var placeholder = $('#'+clientId+'_flot_placeholder');
var overviewPlaceholder = $('#'+clientId+'_flot_overview');
I did a quick test on local environment (Mojarra 2.0.4 on Tomcat 7.0.11). Using #{cc.clientId} gives you an unique ID back everytime.
<ui:repeat value="#{bean.items}" var="item">
<cc:test />
</ui:repeat>
with
<cc:implementation>
<div id="#{cc.clientId}_foo">foo</div>
</cc:implementation>
Here's the generated HTML source:
<div id="j_idt6:0:j_idt7_foo">foo</div>
<div id="j_idt6:1:j_idt7_foo">foo</div>
<div id="j_idt6:2:j_idt7_foo">foo</div>
This should be sufficient for your functional requirement. You might only want to escape the default separator : or to replace it by a custom separator since it's a reserved character in CSS selectors.
Update: so you want to escape it, you should then replace : by \: and not by _.
var clientId = clientIdOld.replace(/:/g, '\\:');
(the /:/g is a regex which ensures that all occurrences will be replaced and the double slash is just to escape the slash itself in JS strings, like as you normally do in Java strings)

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