Hello Lawrence, I don't see where you're setting the "type" property of your SeedKeyword:
http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/SeedKeyword.html#type This could lead to your SOAP request getting serialized improperly, and it may cause the SOAP server to think that you're passing in something other than "nordstrom's" as the "text" parameter. It does look like there's separate search volume data for nordstrom's and nordstroms. I don't know for sure whether the two keywords are treated the same by AdWords when it comes to triggering ads, though. Someone else here or in the general AdWords help forum might have a definitive answer: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On May 13, 3:38 pm, Lawrence Pierce <lpie...@adgooroo.com> wrote: > I'm not too sure stripping the apostrophe will work, when I pass the 2 > keywords nordstroms and nordstrom's into the keyword tool heres what I > get: > > Keywords Advertiser Competition Local Search Volume: April Global > Monthly Search Volume > nordstroms 0.86 550000 673000 > nordstrom's 0.66 27100 33100 > > is there an escape sequence I can use to avoid the : > "This keyword text is not valid. " error? > > Thanks > Lawrence Pierce > Adgooroo > > On May 13, 12:11 pm, AdWords API Advisor > > <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > > Hello Lawrence, > > > I'm not seeing any errors when passing in keyword text that contains > > a single quote to either the TrafficEstimatorService or the > > KeywordToolService (I'm not sure which service and method you're > > trying). > > > Could you provide an example of the code you're using or an actual > > SOAP request and response illustrating the failure? Be sure not to > > post your password of API token information. > > > In any case, I'm (somewhat) sure that AdWords ignores single quotes > > when matching text to a keyword, so what's your motivation behind > > using single quotes? > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On May 12, 6:04 pm, Lawrence Pierce <lpie...@adgooroo.com> wrote: > > > > I noticed that I get an error whenever I send a keyword request where > > > the keyword text contains an apostrophe, however I can query the same > > > keyword without issue through the keyword tool. Is there a mechanism > > > that I can use to succesfully query those keywords through the API? > > > > Thanks > > > Lawrence Pierce > > > AdGooroo > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
