I understand that you want to see which keywords rank high, and which not? I doubt you can get what you want. After all, your positions depend not only on your quality score and bid, but also on the quality score and bids of your competitor.
But more important: Do you realize that not every end user gets the same ads? Bid modifiers play an important rule here. Assume one of your competitors sets a bid modifier on gender, eg. for women your competitor bids 300% of the original bid. Because of that, it is quite more likely that his ad will rank higher when a lady searches on that word. So, if you want to see how your keyword ranks, make sure for both men and women, and unknown (where Google doesn't know the gender of the user). But that's not all. Say another competitor has an ad for an app install, and therefore only bids on mobile devices. So he sets a bid modifier on device type. So, apparently the device type is also an important factor on the ranking of your ads. Make sure you test all device types on which you can set a bid modifier. In fact you should test all possible combinations of gender and device type. But that's not enough. You can also set bid modifiers on location. Not all locations are supported, you can only set bid modifiers for a few thousand locations. You get the idea? You may think that all this doesn't apply to you because you don't use bid modifiers, but remember that your competitors may use them. And that's not all, you can also set bid modifiers on time of day (or day of week). So if you notice a sudden drop or rise, it may be because one of your competitors used a bid modifier starting the past hour. And AdWords still knows more different bid modifiers... You may want to rethink what you intend to achieve. In your starting post you also mentioned the average position was sometimes 0. I have two different explanations for this: 1. Results on the display network. Google can't really determine where your ad was visible on the external website so they just report 0. 2. Shopping results. In Google shopping users can change the ordering (eg. by price, alphabetically on name etc.) meaning you don't have a real position. On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 2:32:57 PM UTC+1, Pierre Augereau wrote: > > Hello, > > Thank you for your time and for this sharing. > > But for now I'm still stuck and no way to keep working correctly... > As I saw on all forums, just the fact to want to ask 'keywords position in > real time' seems to be the Devil himself :o :o > In ours previous messages, we agreed on that MCM and reports from API are > not accurates because there is delayed time (more or less important). So > how to be reactif if I can not know where I am on Google Search on a > specific time ? > Morover, an average position is also not accurate because it is an > average. Example : > - 1 hour and 10 impressions with positions 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2 => > avr = 1,5 but those positions are good > - 1 hour and 10 impressions with positions 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7 => > avr = also 1,5 but even 1 hour later (with delayed time), you do not know > that your keyword is gone from the top of the first page ! > And I don't talk about keyword with no impression who have an average at > 0.0... just need to wait the first impression and whish good luck to the > keyword to be in a good position with the good price ? > > At least, is there any way to automatcly interrogate 'Google Search' or > 'Google AdPreview' to check my own keywords ?? > And yes, I said automaticly because check thousands keywords, except to > have an army of people, is humainly impossible. > > Thank you again > But please, give me a solution. > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/5fd57ead-1891-467c-82cc-9affb87badfc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
