Hi Greg, Some of those blanks are also for verticals, I'm investigating with me team to figure out why they are not been reported.
Best, -David On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:09:01 PM UTC-4, GregT wrote: > > Hi, David. > > Here's the report definition XML: > > <reportDefinition><selector><fields>AdGroupId</fields><fields>AdGroupName</fields><fields>AverageCpc</fields><fields>CampaignId</fields><fields>CampaignName</fields><fields>Cost</fields><fields>Clicks</fields><fields>Impressions</fields><fields>Date</fields><fields>DayOfWeek</fields><fields>CriteriaParameters</fields><fields>Domain</fields><fields>Url</fields><fields>AdNetworkType1</fields><fields>Conversions</fields><fields>ConversionsManyPerClick</fields><fields>TotalConvValue</fields><dateRange><min>20120216</min><max>20120813</max></dateRange></selector><reportName>Sync > > for 20120216 to > 20120813</reportName><reportType>URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT</reportType><hasAttachment>false</hasAttachment><dateRangeType>CUSTOM_DATE</dateRangeType><downloadFormat>GZIPPED_CSV</downloadFormat></reportDefinition> > > CID is 590-210-8272. > > Since it's (gzipped) CSV, if you search for two commas in a row (i.e. > ",,", no quotes) in the resultant download, you'll find the rows I'm > talking about. > > Thanks for the help, > Greg > > On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:46:35 PM UTC-5, David Torres wrote: >> >> 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
