Hello, The behavior is not entirely intuitive, especially if you're familiar with the web-based tool. Please see this blog post:
http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/01/keyword-match-type-and.html There have also been a few other threads in this Google Group regarding the same behavior that you can search the archives for. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Aug 4, 1:29 pm, Goose <jaigo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried to change the seed keyword type to an "Exact match" for > keyword_tool_service but didn't see any difference in the result when > compared with "Broad match". > Does match type "Exact" work with getKeywordVariations or is there an > error in the code below? > > # Create seed keyword structure. > $seed_keyword = '<negative>false</negative><text>mars</ > text><type>Exact</type>'; > $use_synonyms = '<useSynonyms>false</useSynonyms>'; > > # Get keyword variations. > $request_xml = '<getKeywordVariations>' . > '<seedKeywords>' . $seed_keyword . '</seedKeywords>' . > $use_synonyms . > '<languages>en</languages>' . > '<countries>US</countries>' . > '</getKeywordVariations>'; > > $variation_lists = $keyword_tool_service->call > ('getKeywordVariations', $request_xml); --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
