I've also found out that type "City Region" doesn't seem supported either for getting search volume estimates. So far the list of unsupported types I've done by trial and error seem to be: Municipality Borough Neighborhood City Region
Would love to get a confirmed list from Google staff however before I assume all criterion's of these types don't work. On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:45:27 PM UTC-5, Charles Michael wrote: > > Hello Nadine, > > Is it possible to get a list of all Target Type's that will or won't work > with the adwords api? It seems like something that should be disclosed in > the documentation: > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201601/TargetingIdeaService.LocationSearchParameter > > rather than simply stating "Not all back-ends support sub-country > precision." By trial and error, it appears (but I can't be certain if this > is due to low volumes or due to the type) that types Municipality, Borough > and Neighborhood lead to an API error. Most other types seem to go work but > it would be great if the documentation stated which types are accepted > rather than guessing. > > Thank you. > > > > > > On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:28:20 PM UTC-5, Nadine Sundquist (AdWords > API Team) wrote: >> >> Hi Charles, >> >> *QUESTIONS:* Is there any way of getting the search volumes for a >> neighborhood? Entering the same location via the keyword planner doesn't >> appear to work so I'm assuming there isn't a way to do this from the API >> either? It seems odd to me that small cities with just a few hundred >> population work but a neighborhood with over half a million isn't available? >> >> *ANSWERS: *If the user interface doesn't have the data, then the API >> won't, either. Even though we have a different code base accessing the >> data, we're still working off of the same data on the back-end. >> Unfortunately, I don't know the history behind why neighborhoods don't have >> this data associated with them. >> >> Since this issue also presents itself in the AdWords user interface, I >> would also recommend posting to the general AdWords Community forum >> <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Google-AdWords/ct-p/Google_AdWords>. >> >> They may have the reason why, and they may be able to put in a general >> feature request for something like this. >> >> Regards, >> Nadine, AdWords API Team >> >> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 3:33:17 PM UTC-5, Charles Michael wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I've come to the assumption that it has to do with the type of >>> criterion, if its a neighborhood, it seems to always lead to an error. I'm >>> looking at the documentation for TargetingIdeaService. The >>> documentation for the API does state "Warning: Not all back-ends >>> support sub-country precision.", although it doesn't specifically state how >>> to identify which levels work. From the various tests I ran over the >>> weekend, every ID that was a neighborhood failed. However, some of the >>> criterion's are rather large areas, one example is ID: 1002416 which is >>> "Scarborough,Ontario,Canada", a population of over 625,000 people which is >>> quite a sizable market size. Is there any way of getting the search volumes >>> for a neighborhood? Entering the same location via the keyword planner >>> doesn't appear to work so I'm assuming there isn't a way to do this from >>> the API either? It seems odd to me that small cities with just a few >>> hundred population work but a neighborhood with over half a million isn't >>> available? This does create an issue as I don't have any way of estimating >>> volumes for neighborhoods which are still valuable locations of interest to >>> us. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 12:43:51 PM UTC-5, Anthony Madrigal wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Charles, >>>> >>>> As far as I know, there is no list other than the link you provided >>>> that shows the geo targeting criteria codes. If you would like me to >>>> further investigate this issue, please *reply privately to author *the >>>> SOAP request and response you used to get this error. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Anthony >>>> AdWords API Team >>>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/8a9a3de0-f970-4f31-a55b-8af23d90204c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
