Hi, again. It's been a week - just wondering if anyone from google would be able to quickly answer the two questions? They were:
- 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 in advance, Greg On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:26:20 AM UTC-5, GregT wrote: > > 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
