Hi Arthur, Regarding your questions:
1) Yes, I'll work with the documentation team to make this clearer. 2) Correct, although I believe the maximum is 2500 per request. 3) If you are developing a new application you should use the v201008 TrafficEstimatorService, which costs 15 per estimated keyword. Estimates are always done on keywords, although campaign and ad group contextual information can be added at no additional cost. The TES always returns all estimated data, and the cost is always 15 per keyword. 4) The sentence is trying to say that a TES request can only have 500 total keywords in it, regardless of how many campaign or ad group contexts you use. 5) Yes, the AdGroupCriterionService can be used for this purpose. The cost is 1 unit per keyword (Keyword extends Criterion). You can also use reports to get this information, although not all fields are available. 6) Same as #5, 1 unit per item returned. I am not aware of any books on the API. Let us know if you have any other questions. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 19, 12:42 pm, ArthurW <klantencentrum_adwo...@wetselaar.com> wrote: > Hi Eric, Anash et al, > > after lurking for three months and reading almost every post I still > have some questions before I can start using the Adwords API with some > certainty of that I understand the API correctly. And that I am billed > as expected. I've google a lot for the questions below, and hope that > they are not too redundant. > > 1 The current version of the API is V201008, the ratesheet > athttp://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/apis/adwords/docs/ratesheet.html > does not mention that version. Could you update that page for all > people like me that want to know for sure what they will have to pay? > 2 Am I correct in my understanding of the rate sheet and the functions > of the API, that if I only want the local traffic estimate for the > last month for a range of keywords, that the TargetingIdeaService, set > to 'stat' mode is the cheapest option in terms of API units? And that > is 5 per call + 0.1 per keyword, with a maximum of 2000 keywords per > call? > 3 And that if I want more than just the traffic estimate that the > TrafficEstimatorService is needed. For 20 units per Campaign, per ad > group and per keyword, independent of how many properties from each > selection I query for. E.g. if I would query for all properties for a > keyword "dog bed", would I get the Estimated average CPC, Estimated ad > position, Estimated daily clicks and Estimated daily cost for this > keyword for 20 units? > 4 If I want a complete list of all estimates for all keywords for an > account, that the trafficestimatorservice only supports a maximum of > 500 keywords per campaign and adgroup? See > http://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/apis/adwords/docs/reference/latest/... > . On that page it says "The maximum number of keyword estimate > requests across all campaign estimate requests and ad group estimate > requests is 500.". Me not being a programmer nor a native English > speaker makes that sentence for me a bit difficult. Does this mean > that if an ad group contains more than 500 keywords that only the > first 500 are returned? > 5 If I want a list of all keywords with their match type that the > AdGroupCriterionservice is the place to be? And where I am totally in > the blind; according to the rate sheet this costs 1 API unit per > AdGroupCriterion. Is the criterion "keywords" so the list just costs > me 1 unit, or is the criterion 'per keyword' and the cost is equal to > the amount of keywords * 1 API unit. > 6 Same as question number 5 but for a list of Adgroups. Is the > AdGroupService the place to be and does that cost 1 unit per adgroup > or 1 unit for the whole list. > > On a side note, could somebody suggest a good book for the Adwords > API. It feels uneffective and annoying to have to scrape together > knowledge from this forum andhttp://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/ > > Thanks in advance and sorry for the long list of questions. > > Arthur Wetselaar -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
