Hello Bryan, No, I don't think Position Preference settings are exposed via the AdWords API. I can't really say whether there are other AdWords account settings available via the web interface that will end up enabling proxy bidding--unfortunately (from the AdWords API perspective) there are a lot of new features that get rolled out on the web interface that might end up affecting your account in one interesting way or another, and it's somewhat outside the domain of the AdWords API world.
Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 7, 2:42 pm, bryanjj <brya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeff, thanks for investigating. Apparently the Position Preference is > not accessible through the API, but hopefully this will be added in > the future. I'm also curious what other settings will enable proxy > bidding. > > -Bryan > > On Jan 7, 7:59 am, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Bryan, > > > It turns out that this behavior is due to having Position Preferences > > enabled for that campaign. Much like the Budget Optimizer, Position > > Preferences will modify bids on your behalf, and they will show up as > > proxy bids. > > > More information about Positions Preferences can be found at > > > http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8335 > > > and your AdWords account representative could provide additional > > information as well. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Jan 6, 8:00 pm, bryanjj <brya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks Jeff, we really appreciate your help. > > > > -Bryan > > > > On Jan 6, 12:49 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > Hello Bryan, > > > > > Thanks. I took a look at your account and I think there's something > > > > amiss on the AdWords level--the campaigns bids are being actively > > > > changed as if Budget Optimizer were enabled, but I don't see any > > > > indication that it is (and the AdWords web interface is displaying the > > > > bids as if they were just using the ad group default). > > > > > I'm going to escalate this internally to the appropriate folks on the > > > > AdWords side of things, as this is not API related. I'll let you know > > > > what I hear back. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > > On Jan 6, 2:34 pm, bryanjj <brya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Jeff, > > > > > > Thanks for the reply. I do not see any explanatory text next to the > > > > > bids in the web interface. The ad group id is 750368836. Any help > > > > > would be appreciated since we are still seeing this behavior. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Bryan > > > > > > On Jan 5, 9:30 am, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Bryan, > > > > > > > What do you see when you look at the ad group and keywords in the > > > > > > AdWords web interface--is there any explanatory text next to the > > > > > > bids? > > > > > > What's the id of the ad group you're looking at? > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > > > > On Jan 2, 5:40 pm, bryanjj <brya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Here is an interesting situation I hope someone can explain: > > > > > > > > I have a campaign with the following budgetOptimizerSettings: > > > > > > > enabled = false > > > > > > > bidCeiling = null > > > > > > > takeOnOptimizedBids = null > > > > > > > > This campaign contains a group with the following fields: > > > > > > > keywordMaxCpc = 5000000 > > > > > > > proxyKeywordMaxCpc = 5000000 > > > > > > > keywordMaxContentCpc = null > > > > > > > maxCpa = null > > > > > > > siteMaxCpc = null > > > > > > > siteMaxCpm = null > > > > > > > > This group contains a keyword with the following fields: > > > > > > > maxCpc = 0 > > > > > > > proxyMaxCpc = 4410000 > > > > > > > > According to our Google reports, we are bidding the proxy bid for > > > > > > > this > > > > > > > keyword: 4410000 > > > > > > > > Is there an explanation for this since Campaign optimizer is > > > > > > > disabled? All of these values have been stable for at least the > > > > > > > past > > > > > > > few weeks. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > Bryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
