When predicting whether a keyword will trigger one of your ads, you should also evaluate the group status and campaign status, when these are not active and enabled, your keyword is not shown. But, your task is almost impossible. For instance, a keyword will not be shown when the campagin runs out of its daily budget. So you should also look at the total costs of the day in the campaign. Unfortunately it is not a strict limit, Google allows to overrun the daily budget by 10%, as long as the total cost of the month does not exceed the daily budget times the days in the month. Further, your account may be deactivated by Google (eg. because of payment problems), and you cannot determine the account status through API.
BTW: You mention the first page bid. That has nothing to do with the state of a keyword. It just tells you whether your ad will be shown on the first page, or on a later page. If you want to ensure that your ad is shown on the first page, you should either contact all competitors of that word, or you should enter a bidding war. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
