Hi all, There are some previous threads about AdParams, but I'd thought I combine some of the issues I've encountered when using this feature, which from my point of view is a great mechanism for making your campaigns more dynamic, but is quite difficult to work with. I'm also interested whether there is actually a significant number of developers using AdParams.
The main problems I have with the current implementation are the following: - No possibility to define AdParams on an AdGroupAd or even AdGroup level. This makes updating AdParams a fairly slow process when you have more than just a few keywords in an ad group. I still struggle to see the use case for defining different AdParams on different keywords within the same ad group. I believe that in a majority of cases, one rather wants to define params for a specific ad, or even on the whole ad group. - No support for AdParamOperations in MutateJobService. This fact, together with the above item, means that an update of ad params for the whole account (say a million keywords) takes a very long time and involves significant overhead as all the calls are synchronous and no more than approx. 1000 operations can be submitted at once before hitting REQUEST_SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED. - No reporting whatsoever. This means that you will need either to have local state or, like above, submit hundreds or thousands of calls to AdParamService.get - The allowed range of characters apart from numbers is limited. For example, in some central European countries, an apostrophe or single quote is used as thousands separator, while others use a space—yet only dot and comma are legal in the insertion text. To me, the lack of reporting functionality is the most severe issue, as it forces me to add DB logic to an otherwise stateless tool. But I am very interested what others have to say. Thanks for any feedback and best regards, Dorian -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
