Hello Tim, My understanding is that deletion of criteria objects is treated differently from deletion of ads, ad groups, or campaigns. This should be the case regardless of whether the deletion is done via the web interface, AdWords Editor, or the AdWords API. As per the documentation for the removeCriteria() method:
http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/CriterionService.html#removeCriteria "Caution: Unlike campaigns and ad groups, criteria are permanently deleted and cannot be restored." I also believe that you can't add two keywords with identical match types and text to the same ad group. Only one keyword non-deleted keyword can exist. Feel free to ask about some of this sort of thing in the general AdWords help center as well, as I usually just rely on empirical testing when it comes to AdWords functionality not directly related to the API. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jun 16, 11:46 am, tozor <t...@adlucent.com> wrote: > I am having a situation in my application where I have keywords in my > application database which at one time existed in Adwords, but now no > longer exist. By no longer exist I mean that when I call getCriteria > () null is returned. Also the keyword is no longer returned in a > zero impression keyword report. This confuses me because I thought > that all deletes in Adwords were what I would call soft deletes. > Specifically the keyword still exists but it has a status of > "DELETED". > > So I am trying to understand under what conditions will the Adwords > system do a hard delete. Is there a difference between a delete in > Adwords editor vs. the browser interface? Also what happens if > someone uploads duplicate keywords into an existing ad group, does > Adwords remove the duplicates behind the scenes? > > I have coded around this in my application but my expectation was that > the keywords would exists forever in Adwords and that I would simply > just have to update the status in my application db to "DELETED". > > Insight is greatly appreciated. I did some searching through previous > posts but was unable to find a definitive answer to this question. > > Tim Ozor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
