Hi, I can't speak to the best way to organize your campaigns. The CampaignTargetService.mutate() method costs 1 API unit per TargetList, so setting 91 GeoTargetLists would cost 91 API units.
Best, - Eric On Sep 11, 11:47 am, rogerw <carneyalansf...@live.com> wrote: > Thanks for your response. > > With this limitation in place, I've come up with the following. > > There are 27115 cities in the US. If the geotarget limit is 300 per > campaign, then we need (27115/300) = 91 campaigns. The campaigns will > be named 'California - 1' and 'California - 2', which correspond > respectively to the 1st set of 300 cities and the 2nd set of 300 > cities in California, ordered by name. These blocks of 300 will > remain static, so that if we're not participating in a city included > in the 1st set of California, we'll simply not specify that city, such > that only 299 cities will be mentioned in the 'California - 1' > campaign. > > We'd like to make this update daily. If I'm understanding the API > usage credits properly, this should mean that we only make 91 updates > per day (1 per campaign). Is it correct to assume that if we specify > 300 cities for a geotarget list, that this will amount to only one API > call and thus one API credit usage? > > We'd like to minimize load on Google's API servers, as well as > minimize API credit usage. Can you please advise as to whether you > think this is the most efficient solution? > > On Sep 10, 1:59 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Unfortunately it is not possible to bypass the limit on the number of > > targeted locations allowed per campaign. You will have to use broader > > geographic areas or more campaigns. > > > As an aside, although they don't replace GeoTargets you may want to > > investigate LocationExtensions to see can provide additional value to > > your members. > > > http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/12/discover-v2009-location-extens... > > > Best, > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > On Sep 9, 7:26 pm, rogerw <carneyalansf...@live.com> wrote: > > > > 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?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
