Hi, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I was able to replicate the behavior and have raised the issue to our core engineering team. I'll update this thread when I have more information.
Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 15, 4:43 pm, noelbk <n...@burton-krahn.com> wrote: > I'm using TrafficEstimatorService.estimateKeywordList to get the cost > per click for several keywords. However, a bunch of them that should > have a positive cost per click have 0. For example, "vacation" has a > lowerCpc of $0.716, but "vacations" has 0 lowerCpc and upperCpc. > Typing "vacations" into the TrafficEstimatorSandbox [1], I get a CPC > of $1.71 - $2.35. Why doesn't estimateKeywordList return the same > thing? > > [1]https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox > > Here is output from a sample Perl program [below] showing "vacation" > with cpc of 2.02-2.52, and "vacations" with cpc of 0-0. > > $ ./estimateKeywordList.t vacation vacations > > estimateKeywordList > keywordRequest=$VAR1 = bless( { > 'maxCpc' => 100000000, > 'text' => 'vacation', > 'type' => 'Broad' > }, 'Google::Adwords::KeywordRequest' ); > > keywordEstimates=$VAR1 = [ > bless( { > 'upperClicksPerDay' => '5234.62', > 'lowerCpc' => '2015624', > 'lowerClicksPerDay' => '5214.775', > 'id' => '-1', > 'upperAvgPosition' => '3.0', > 'upperCpc' => '2519531', > 'lowerAvgPosition' => '1.0' > }, 'Google::Adwords::KeywordEstimate' ) > ]; > > estimateKeywordList > keywordRequest=$VAR1 = bless( { > 'maxCpc' => 100000000, > 'text' => 'vacations', > 'type' => 'Broad' > }, 'Google::Adwords::KeywordRequest' ); > > keywordEstimates=$VAR1 = [ > bless( { > 'upperClicksPerDay' => '0.0', > 'lowerCpc' => '0', > 'lowerClicksPerDay' => '0.0', > 'id' => '-1', > 'upperAvgPosition' => '0.0', > 'upperCpc' => '0', > 'lowerAvgPosition' => '0.0' > }, 'Google::Adwords::KeywordEstimate' ) > ]; > > ------------------------------------------------- > Here's the sample program that produces the output above: > > #! /usr/bin/perl -w > =head1 NAME > > estimateKeywordList.t - test Google's > TrafficEstimatorService.estimateKeywordList > > =head1 SYNOPSIS > > estimateKeywordList.t [options] keyword [options] keyword ... > > Options: > -t --type Broad, Exact, or Phrase > -c --cpc Cost per click, in dollars > > =head1 AUTHOR > > Noel Burton-Krahn > n...@burton-krahn.com > > =cut > > use strict; > > use Google::Adwords::TrafficEstimatorService; > use Google::Adwords::KeywordRequest; > use Data::Dumper; > use Getopt::Long; > > my $service = Google::Adwords::TrafficEstimatorService->new() > ->email('XXXXXX') > ->password('XXXXXX') > ->clientCustomerId('744-219-7833') > ->api_version('v13') > ->applicationToken('XXXXXX) > ->developerToken('XXXXXX') > ; > > my $match_type = 'Broad'; > my $cpc = 100; > my $country = 'US'; > > sub lookup { > my($keyword) = @_; > > my $keywordRequest = Google::Adwords::KeywordRequest->new > ->text($keyword) > ->type($match_type) > ->maxCpc($cpc*1000000); > > my @keywordEstimates = $service->estimateKeywordList > ($keywordRequest); > > print("estimateKeywordList" > . "\nkeywordRequest=" . Dumper($keywordRequest) > . "\nkeywordEstimates=" . Dumper(\...@keywordestimates) > . "\n"); > > } > > GetOptions('type|t=s' => \$match_type, > 'cpc|c=i' => \$cpc, > 'country=s' => \$country, > '<>' => \&lookup); -- 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.
