Hi Tim, Unfortunately I can't provide exact numbers around rate limits, and I don't have any information regarding ad serving specifics. In general I would not recommend a solution that involves toggling campaign statuses rapidly as a means of determining impressions.
Best, - Eric On Dec 11, 2:21 pm, timprepscius <timprepsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess this works. > Ugh.. I wonder what the max number of queries per second google > tolerates is. Will look. > > Anyway. > Out of curiosity: > > If I turn off a campaign, will I be charged for clicks on ads which > occur after the turn-off timestamp? > > And, is the time-delay between campaign status modification and "ads > being shown" public? Or can it be public? > If public, what is it? Or what is its range? > > -tim > > On Dec 11, 2:12 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Tim, > > > The TargetingIdeaService is an OK way to get this information, but it > > will take a little tweaking. The main goal of this service is to > > return new keyword or placement ideas with relevant statistics, > > although it can be configured to return just the statistics for only > > the input keyword (use paging to limit the results to 1). The cost is > > 1 unit per returned TargetingIdea: > > > http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_ratesh... > > > Best, > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > On Dec 11, 2:08 pm, timprepscius <timprepsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Ah.. I'm > > > seeinghttp://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... > > > AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES > > > TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES > > > GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES > > > > anything else? > > > > Hmm, I wonder what the cost for these services is.. have to look. > > > > -tim > > > > On Dec 11, 1:53 pm, timprepscius <timprepsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > We have a client that wishes to broadcast a brand message, and so he > > > > is more interested in impressions, rather than clicks. > > > > > We were hoping basically to take bunches of keywords based on his > > > > products, and then forecast them for impressions. > > > > > However, the "traffic estimator" doesn't return > > > > impressions.http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/KeywordEstimate.html > > > > > I'm trying to figure out a work around for this. > > > > > All I can think of at the moment, is create a huge adgroup. > > > > With maybe $10 spend limit. > > > > And turn it on/turn it off over a 10-15 second interval hourly. > > > > > So questions I have are: > > > > 1. What is the delay between "turn on" and "see an actual ad", > > > > 2. What is the delay between "turn off" and "no more ads" > > > > > Is there a more obvious way to do this? > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > -tim -- 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-...@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.
