Mark- many thanks for your response and sharing your experience, and frustrations with this problem. Agreed that cut paste is better than manually entry, but I'm really hoping to have an application or script do the cut and paste part... well, we may also have to develop something since, but the path is not yet clear... If you find something that you like, kindly let me know.
Best- Ardy On Nov 10, 12:34 pm, Mark Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ardyk: You can use the AdWords editor to do bulk "cut and paste" > imports of campaigns, ad groups, keywords (including negative > keywords), and ad texts. There are some features it does not support > (position preference and time-of-day management, for example). It is > much less cumbersome than manually entering information online, but it > is far from a perfect solution. > > I've been shopping for a better solution for much of this year, and > thus far I've not found any tools that actually seem to provide any > improved capability -- the main selling point of third-party tools > seems to be the ability to view and manage campaigns across Google & > Yahoo & MSN using a single tool -- but even then, I've not found a > tool that helps to intelligently manage the "differences" between the > three systems. > > It looks like I'll be moving forward with a development project for an > in-house solution for one client, because there simply doesn't seem to > be any third-party solution that can meet our most basic needs. I'd > love to talk with anyone who thinks they have a tool that might work. > > On Nov 8, 6:22 am, ardyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And what are the third party applications that I might be able to > > use? anyone? > > > On Nov 7, 4:01 pm, ardyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, Jason- I appreciate the response, however, I don't see that > > > AdWords Editor actually allows Importing of files that result in the > > > creation of new campaign, ads, etc... Am I missing something in > > > AdWords Editor? > > > > Ardy > > > > On Nov 7, 3:12 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > Hello Ardy, > > > > > You have a number of options, including many commercial third-party > > > > applications that were built on top of the AdWords API. If you're > > > > looking for a free desktop application, Google's AdWords Editor might > > > > fit the bill: > > > > > http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwordseditor/ > > > > > Not to take away from any of the fine third-party applications our > > > > developers are building, but for the sake of completeness I wanted to > > > > mention that. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > > On Nov 7, 2:39 pm, ardyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi- > > > > > > we run a lot, hundreds, of adgroups through adwords and would like to > > > > > do substantially more and refresh these periodically, so we're looking > > > > > for an application that allows bulk uploading of AdGroups/Campaigns to > > > > > AdWords through the API-- does anyone have suggestions for such > > > > > applications? > > > > > > Many thanks- > > > > > > Ardy- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
