Hi Greg, Can you please give me the account id and the report definition you are running?. I'll be more than glad to investigate.
Best, -David Torres - AdWords API Team On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:34:14 AM UTC-4, GregT wrote: > > 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
