If an account has shopping campaigns (they are assigned average position of 0), when I pull the account performance report, the average position is often less than 1.
What seems to be happening is that when calculating the avg position, the system does a weighted average over position and impressions, but it is also including shopping campaigns' 0 avg. position. this causes wrong avg. position to be reported. To validate my theory, I tried the same thing in the ad words interface, and viola - wrong Average Position at the account level in the AdWords UI! (Avg. Position is less than Avg. Pos on Search or Display). I have more examples where avg. position actually drops below 1 due to this reason. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q4eW5h8AATY/VTFKAyIZ0QI/AAAAAAAAKAA/JbLiCriEVlg/s1600/Capture.PNG> Probably the correct way to calculate the average is to leave out campaigns that have an average position of 0 when calculating the weighted average. Guidance from the AdWords team on how to read the Average Position stat would be helpful. An email informing me of a bug bounty award would be nice too :) Cheers, MG -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/605c7aa1-9871-4262-b509-b52a02e656e8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
