Hi, For a particular new client, running the URL Performance Report results in many rows that have an empty value for the CriteriaParameters field. We have never seen this before, and it's causing issues for us because we don't know what generated the clicks, conversions, etc. to occur at the URL. From downloading the report to a file and looking through it, it appears that all of the rows that are like this are from topics (based upon the fact that the campaign name for the row is a campaign that only has topics in it -- no manual or automatic placements and no keywords).
With other clients that are using topics [vertical placements], we see something like "docvertical::##" [where "##" is just a number] for the value of the CriteriaParameters field, and that is the case for this client as well for some of the rows, but there are hundreds of rows in the report that have a completely blank CriteriaParameters field. Spot checking some of the rows that do have something like "docvertical::##" for the CriteriaParameters, I can see them in the AdWords UI listed under Automatic Placements [i.e. I see the domain of the URL on the Automatic Placements tab, and if I select that row in the UI and select "See details", I see the specific URL with the same numbers I see in the report]. For those rows in the downloaded report that have a blank CriteriaParameters field, of the 10 or so I spot checked, those URLs don't show up in the AdWords UI at all for that day. So, my questions are: - Is this a bug on google's side that no value is getting returned in the CriteriaParameters field? We've never seen it on any other client. - If it is not a bug, is it safe to assume that a blank CriteriaParameters field indicates that it is a URL that was displayed as a result of a topic / vertical? Thanks, Greg -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
