Hi, Short answer, it is not possible to cross-link an automatic placement by itself with and ad. Automatic placements are not meant to be linked with the ad performance report but instead be analized and promoted to managed placements, then you can fully cross-reference them with the ad performance report.
Best, - David Torres - AdWords API Team On Friday, March 16, 2012 1:49:09 PM UTC-4, vinyl wrote: > > Bump. No ideas? Am I posting this in the wrong group?! > > On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:46:58 PM UTC-7, vinyl wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to link the ad, keyword, and placement reports to better >> analyze the performance of various keywords/ads. However, I'm having >> trouble folding the placement results in, while keeping the basic >> dimensions I'd like. >> >> I'm trying to use adID (Ad Performance Report, ID column), keyword, and >> domain (Automatic Placements Report, domain column); with the Search >> Network, I'll have something for adID and keyword, while for the Display >> Network, I'm expecting to be able to group along the adID and placement. In >> either case, I'm hoping to line up impressions, clicks, and cost data from >> the API reports with our internally collected revenue numbers. >> >> For the keywords, I can join the Ad Performance and Keyword Performance >> reports by keywordID and everything works well; however, adID does not >> exist in the Placements report. Does this mean this combination of >> dimensions is impossible to use for analyzing the Display Network? >> >> I have seen the thread at >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/adwords-api/-_6nYWMOgVs, >> but while that doesn't seem to have been totally resolved, the only >> suggested solution was to avoid using adID as a dimension (and instead go >> with adGroupID). >> >> Thanks! >> > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
