Hello Buki, Okay, so here's the breakdown: each individual SeedKeyword you pass in is treated like a separate keyword. Keywords can have multiple words in them, (as well as a specific match type). So "keyword phrase one" can be passed in as the text of a SeedKeyword, and it will be treated as a single keyword that happens to be made up of three individual words. At the risk of confusing things further, the maximum number of individual words you can pass in as part of a single SeedKeyword is ten. "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" is valid text for a SeedKeyword, but "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven" isn't.
You can pass in up to ten separate SeedKeyword objects in an individual request to getKeywordVariations(). However, unless the SeedKeywords are all closely related, it's usually best to make your getKeywordVariations() requests with only one SeedKeyword at a time. The reason is that the results you get back will be capped at a set number of variations regardless of how many SeedKeywords you pass in. So if you pass in five unrelated SeedKeywords in the same getKeywordVariations() call, you'll get at most 200 moreSpecific responses back, but you may miss out on some of the moreSpecific responses that would have been returned if you had specified fewer than 5 SeedKeywords. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jul 21, 11:49 am, Buki <bukil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Morning Jeff, > > Thanks for your response. I'm curious though, is the SeedKeyword > method limited to only 10 words/phrases? If so, does this mean that if > I have a list like this: > > keyword > keywords > keyword phrase one > this is keyword phrase one > > that I have used those 10 words or is designated by phrase, meaning I > could have 10 separate phrases regardless of the length? > > Also, is there any way to input, say, 30 keywords at a time? > > I think the 10 word limitation is really what is driving the > frustration behind the whole thing. > > Thanks, > > -Buki > On Jul 21, 11:23 am, AdWords API Advisor > > > > <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > > Hello Buki, > > > The getKeywordVariations() method will return a set number of > > responses regardless of how many source keywords you pass in. For that > > reason, you won't necessarily see better results by passing in a large > > list of SeedKeyword objects--you'll probably just see the keyword > > suggestions for less popular keywords left out of the results. > > > If you have a large number of keywords and you care about retrieving > > the largest number of variations for each of them, I'd recommend > > making separate calls to getKeywordVariations() with each of the > > keywords as the only parameters. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Jul 21, 9:59 am, Buki <bukil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Our company is in the process of developing a keyword research tool. > > > We have used the GetKeywordVariations from within the Keyword Tool > > > Service. > > > >http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/KeywordToolService... > > > > My question is in regard to the parameter SeedKeyword > > > > The documentation at the aforementioned url states that there is a > > > limit of 10 keywords for this parameter. This seems pretty limited and > > > I need to find a way to get data for very large keyword lists. Is > > > there another parameter I should use to get the results that I need? > > > Is there a way to input more than 10 keywords? > > > > I'm pretty new to this and my boss would like to see results faster > > > than I am able to deliver. > > > > Any help would be great. > > > > Thank you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
