Hi Greg, Those blanks belong to deleted entities, we don't record the verticals when the criteria is marked deleted.
Let me know if that is not the case. Best, - David On Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:44:29 AM UTC-5, GregT wrote: > > Hi, David (or other Google employee). > > Any update on this? :) > > Thanks, > Greg > > On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:42:54 AM UTC-5, GregT wrote: >> >> Pinging again to see if there's any news as to why criteriaParameters is >> blank for some of the verticals. :) >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:44:57 PM UTC-5, GregT wrote: >>> >>> Hi, David. >>> >>> Just wondering if you have found out anything about this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Greg >>> >>> On Friday, August 31, 2012 4:18:37 PM UTC-5, David Torres wrote: >>>> >>>> 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
