We are an association with thousands of members throughout the country. We co-promote with many of these providers in their local markets. Our original approach was to build a campaign specifically for each member, using a standardized set of keywords and ad copy that had proven to be successful. The location targets would be the cities that each member serviced. As we acquired more members in the same area, we noticed that having multiple competing campaigns for the same territory was hurting our performance. Also, creating a new campaign setup for each member, even though the same keywords and ads were being used, was tedious and brushed aside all the historical performance data we’d built up in the first campaign for a given area.
So, we’re trying to move to a setup where we simply have 50 campaigns— one for each state. The locations targeted would be all the cities in that state where we have a member. This way, regardless of how many members we have, we’d always have only 50 campaigns to automatically update via the API. The limitation we discovered with this idea was revealed by the Adwords API documentation: TOO_MANY_TARGETED_LOCATIONS. I’ve read that 300 locations is a maximum per campaign, which would mean we’d have to create hundreds of campaigns to cover all the cities we service. Is there any way to increase the allotment of targeted locations if it’s confirmed that we’re not doing anything bad? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
