Do not necessarily believe what was written by Zweitze. I pull 3 weeks. I've seen clicks change at >2 weeks ago.
On Aug 19, 4:23 pm, Zweitze <zwei...@gmail.com> wrote: > It depends on what you need to store. > > Impressions, average Position: > Three to six hours after midnight according to the timezone of the > account. > (Adwords states three hours, some people here state six hours) > > Clicks, Cost and derived values like CTR and CPC: > Same as Impressions/Position, but if you advertize on the Content > network, you may become a victim of click fraud by these website > owners. Allow two days for Google to verify and fix that. > > Conversions and Conversion values, and derived values like > ConversionRate, CostPerConversion: > Allow for 30 days. End users get a cookie when they click, and when > they finally reach the conversion page that cookie is used by the > conversion script. The life time of that cookie is thirty days, so > after thirty days it's final. And yes, conversions are attributed to > date of the last click, and because of that you can derive the > ConversionRate, CostPerConversion etc. by comparing with the clicks > and cost of that day. > > Note: if you store the data in a database, you better create a small > app that checks the totals - you'll notice that it gets off every now > and then. I use a period of 32 days, and still find differences every > once and while. > > On Aug 19, 7:43 pm, doug s <dstall...@raybeam.com> wrote: > > > Forgive me for asking this again. I am pretty sure I did, but I can't > > find your response. > > > Our application pulls daily adgroup/creative/keyword reports every > > night for many accounts. We would like to pull them as soon as > > possible past midnight so we have ample time to process them. > > > I am not 100% certain, but it does seem that Google does go back and > > revise historical impression, click, etc data. > > > Can you recommend how long we should wait after midnight before > > pulling yesterdays data? When should we consider any given days report > > data 100% finalized and complete? > > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
