Hello, As you mentioned, the report stats in AdWords are not real time and in most cases they are delayed by less than three hours. It is not possible to get the stats real time. If your reports have average position as zero, there will most likely be no impressions associated with that keywords. Please check a similar post <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Performance-Optimization/Avg-Ad-Positions-is-0-for-almost-all-keywords/td-p/58688> on the product forum for reference. If that is not the case, could you share a sample AdGroupId and the KeywordId where you have this issue?
Unfortunately, the only way to get stats via API is using the reports. Regarding your questions about AdPreview tool, could you please post on the Advertisers community forum <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Google-AdWords/ct-p/Google_AdWords#> and the product experts there might be able to guide you better. Regards, Bharani, AdWords API Team On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 9:55:39 AM UTC-5, Pierre Augereau wrote: > > Good Morning every one, > > I have an issue with datas from MCM and the Api. > With many keywords the average position and the estimate cost to be in the > first page top, are not accurate. > I'm in first position with some keywords but the estimate cost to be in > the first page top is almost twice higther than my actual cost. > And there is also the same problem in reverse way (the cost to be first is > much more higther than the estimate one). > So, I tried to used average position (in MCM and API) but, it's clearly > not relevant because, it's just an average... > Morever, as it said on the MCM bottom, 'Reports are not generated in real > time. As a result, clicks and impressions in the last three hours may not > have been counted' and that's applied to average position too. > Well, an average position from three hours late is not really helpfull to > react in real time and set right cost for a keyword. > Also, have an average position equal to '0.0'... What does it mean ?? How > do I know if my keyword is in right place with '0.0' ?? Maybe, my keyword > is at the top of the first page, above the search bar ?? > As i said before, I have those strange data from MCM and API. > I also tried to let 'Google' managed costs in automatic way... 20% more > expensive and 10% less hit on all keywords... Not working either > > As mommy always said : Trust does not exclude control ! > So I used AdPreview to know where are my keywords... Just a few thousands > keywords to check few times in a day... Such a great day is coming :/ > Anyway, first call to AdPreview, OK. second, OK.... 40th call still OK > .... 50th call still... wait for it... Oh my !!! An error 'Unusual traffic > from your computer network' !! > I resolve the reCaptcha and I keep going to check my keywords. After 10 > more calls, reCaptcha again with a lot images to solved... really a lot -_- > Here we go again to check my keywords... Not so long because 2 more calls > a new error raised : 'We're sorry... but your query looks similar to > automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect > our users, we can't process your request right now...' > Ok... One hour later, still same message :s But don't worry I have many > associates !! First associate, after almost 60 calls, IP burned too... > Second one, same punishment... 10th associate... Well I do not have anymore > associate :o > > To resume, I'm stuck with datas wich are not accurates from MCM and API, > at least 10 IPs burned and no way to check my own keywords positions... Not > really a good day after all :/ > So, what is the way to check all my keywords positions, few times a day > without burned all my IPs and all my time ?? > Or do you have a service / API (free or not) to manage this kind of > checking ? > > Thank you in advance ! > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/d2dd59ac-743d-4afe-b29c-199cbcf6c6bd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
