Re: AdWords API v2009 Hack Days

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi All, A small correction to my original post: the two locations are New York and San Francisco, not Mountain View. Best, - Eric On Dec 17, 10:40 am, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi Ursula, > > At this point there are no plans to have Hack Days at other locations > in the US, but thanks for th

AdWords API Re: Multiple Ad Types In Same AdGroup

2009-12-17 Thread Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)
Eric, No other context to provide ... thanks for clearing it up. Pete On Dec 17, 4:09 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi Pete, > > I followed up with my colleagues and there is no such limitation in > the system.  Can you provide me any further context for this > conversation?  Is this behavio

AdWords API Re: Multiple Ad Types In Same AdGroup

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Pete, I followed up with my colleagues and there is no such limitation in the system. Can you provide me any further context for this conversation? Is this behavior you are witnessing on your own accounts? Best, - Eric On Dec 17, 3:43 pm, "Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)" wrote: > Eric, >

AdWords API Re: Multiple Ad Types In Same AdGroup

2009-12-17 Thread Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)
Eric, Unfortunately no link ... would you be able to ping the core engineering team please? Thanks Pete On Dec 17, 3:36 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi Pete, > > I am not aware of any such limitation.  Do you have a link to this > information? > > Best, > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > >

AdWords API Re: Signup link for adwords api v2009 is broken

2009-12-17 Thread antoinet
Lol! Thank you very much indeed! Best, Antoinet On Dec 17, 6:22 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi Antoinet, > > The signup page is gone because the v2009 API is now open to everyone! > >  http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/08/adwords-api-v2009-beta-now-ava... > > The newest version is v200909

AdWords API Re: Multiple Ad Types In Same AdGroup

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Pete, I am not aware of any such limitation. Do you have a link to this information? Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 17, 3:04 pm, "Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)" wrote: > I recently saw a conversation where it was stated that an AdGroup > cannot support multiple Ad types wit

Re: AdWords API proximity targets - conflict between adwords API and adwords UI

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Guy, I have been able to replicate the problem, and I will report it to the core engineering team. If you are not actually trying to update any geo targets, a simple work around is to merely exclude the geoTargeting element from your update request. When performing an update you only need to

AdWords API Re: getUnitCountForMethod in v2009 InfoService

2009-12-17 Thread joel
I see, using the MCC in the Client Id field made it work. It would definitely be useful to have this in the documentation, and for any other services that will require the MCC Id. Thank you! On Dec 17, 2:54 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi Joel, > > I am able to retrieve units correctly in my

AdWords API Multiple Ad Types In Same AdGroup

2009-12-17 Thread Pete Lavetsky (AdWords API Guru)
I recently saw a conversation where it was stated that an AdGroup cannot support multiple Ad types within it ... ie. that the Google system cannot support both a text ad and an image ad in the same AdGroup, and that the system would completely stop showing ads for this AdGroup. Is there any truth

AdWords API Re: getUnitCountForMethod in v2009 InfoService

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Joel, I am able to retrieve units correctly in my tests. Something to be aware of is that for the InfoService to work correctly the MCC user that owns the developer token must be the one to make the request. Requests made by other MCCs or AdWords accounts will not return any information. We a

AdWords API Re: getUnitCountForMethod in v2009 InfoService

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi James, The cause of this problem has been identified and a fix was developed and pushed to production. Let me know if you see any other issues. Best, - Eric On Dec 2, 12:25 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi James, > > Your request looks correctly formatted, and I am seeing the same > beha

AdWords API Re: Sample code for v2009

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Alexis, Thank you for the feedback. Although there currently isn't a single page that lists them all, the client libraries have been updated to have a consistent set of v2009 examples. You can read more about this one our blog: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/12/discover-v2009-new-exa

AdWords API Re: getUnitCountForMethod in v2009 InfoService

2009-12-17 Thread joel
I'm not sure if this is related, but I'm also seeing 0 returned as the cost for all calls I made to the InfoService. I'm still in the process of migrating from v13, so should v13 API units used still show up under UNIT_COUNT? Here's the sanitized SOAP I'm sending that's returning 0 cost: http://sc

AdWords API Re: Sandbox v200909 - Limit per Account

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Faisal, In addition to Zeljko's great advice, you can also rename your deleted campaign, perhaps appending the word "DELETED". Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 17, 9:22 am, ZSvedic wrote: > Hi, > > Campaign names are unique and you cannot create new campaign with the > same name

AdWords API Re: Cannot catch ApiException

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Faisal, Are you using the AdWords API .NET client library? If so I would suggest you open a bug on the issue tracker to alert the maintainers of this problem: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-dotnet/issues/list Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 16, 3:02 pm, Faisal Dg

AdWords API Re: About the 'Exact' keyword match type

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Donald, The matchType "EXACT" on the seed keyword is used to calibrate the recommendation engine, but it will not limit the results to only keywords that contain the seed keyword exactly. This feature doesn't exist in the TargetingIdeaService, but can be approximated using the NgramGroupsSearc

AdWords API Re: TargetingIdeaService GetBulkKeywordIdeas

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, You are correct, the RelatedToUrlSearchParameter isn't being set correctly. You can see an example of how to use this parameter in the following example: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-php/source/browse/trunk/examples/v200909/GetRelatedPlacements.php Best, - Eric Koleda, AdW

AdWords API Re: Signup link for adwords api v2009 is broken

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Antoinet, The signup page is gone because the v2009 API is now open to everyone! http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/08/adwords-api-v2009-beta-now-available-to.html The newest version is v200909: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/10/were-happy-to-announce-newest-version.html Best, -

AdWords API Re: PHP v2009 Monthly Search Volume

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Keesjan, The message from the engineering team is that last month's data will be available within a week of the end of the month. This is the current behavior, and there are no plans to change it that I am aware of. Best, - Eric On Dec 16, 2:42 pm, hikmetcancelik wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Would

AdWords API Re: data to a xml

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi P.W., The new AdWords API PHP client library currently doesn't support returning data as raw XML, only as objects. Could you use the objects to update your database? Best, - Eric On Dec 16, 7:47 am, phpoo wrote: > Hi Eric > this problem.. > Take the data from the Campaigns, AdGroup, Ad and

AdWords API Re: Please post an example of handling PolicyViolationError

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Thank you for the feedback. We understand this is a gap in our current examples, and it is something we are working on. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 16, 3:37 am, Maxim wrote: > ...using OGNL, preferrably in Java. > > If I'm passing an array of AdGroupAd[] to mutate() operat

AdWords API Re: Wasting API Units with TargetingIdeaService

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Can, I'll bring this up with the core engineering team to see if they have any further information. However, there is a better way to get the stats for only your input keyword, and that is using the requestType STATS instead of IDEAS: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/referenc

AdWords API Re: How Can I get Budget for my Account?

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi SunHo Choi, Unfortunately this feature isn't available in the API. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 15, 8:41 pm, SunHo Choi wrote: > Greeting > > I have questions for getting Budget and Status. > There is a way to get daily budget for campains with using Google API. > > However,

AdWords API Re: How do you calculate the API Usage?

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Can, The API unit cost is based on the number of items returned in the SOAP XML response. So if your paging is set such that you only get the first 10 items, you will only be charged for those 10 items (even if there are more results). Fetching the next ten items will then charge you for thos

AdWords API Re: Fault: 1 Code: soapenv:Server.userException String: The request xml was invalid.

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, This error is being generated client side, because an ampersand cannot appear unencoded in an XML document (your SOAP request). If you want to send an ampersand you must encode it as: & Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 15, 7:28 pm, hikmetcancelik wrote: > I'm having problems

AdWords API Re: ad group criteria selector issue: python 8.0.0, v200909

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi David, The selector for AdGroupCriteria works a little differently than other selectors, and doesn't have an adGroupId field: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/AdGroupCriterionService.AdGroupCriterionSelector.html Instead, a set of AdGroupCriterionIdFilters can be us

Re: AdWords API v2009 Hack Days

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Ursula, At this point there are no plans to have Hack Days at other locations in the US, but thanks for the interest. Plus, this event could be a great excuse to get away from the Chicago cold and spend some time in sunny San Francisco! Best, - Eric On Dec 15, 6:35 pm, Ursula wrote: > Sound

AdWords API Re: estimateKeywordList returns 0 cpc for "vacations"

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I was able to replicate the behavior and have raised the issue to our core engineering team. I'll update this thread when I have more information. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 15, 4:43 pm, noelbk wrote: > I'm using TrafficEstima

AdWords API Re: Looking to have 1 api only user account for multiple MCCs

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Mike, A parent MCC can link to many sub MCCs using API-only links. However, a child MCC can only have one APO-only link up to a parent. Please double check that you are doing the linking correctly. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 15, 12:55 pm, "mik...@getastart.com" wrote: > I

AdWords API Re: Problem with PHP ext/SOAP

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Rajesh, Those look like valid ad group IDs. What is the issue you run into when trying to add keywords? Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 15, 12:38 pm, nsrajesh wrote: > hi all >  i am gettings adgroupids like this 5000112823, 5000112824 etc (see > the xml below...) so i am havin

AdWords API Re: Deleting a text ad in order to change a field

2009-12-17 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Ven, For AdGroupAds, setting the status to DISABLED or using the REMOVE operator has the same effect. AdGroupAds can never be fully deleted, and they will always exist in your account with the status DISABLED. There is no name uniqueness requirement for ads so there should never be a problem c

AdWords API proximity targets - conflict between adwords API and adwords UI

2009-12-17 Thread Guy Zucker
Hi, I would appreciate any ideas on the foolowing issue: I’ve encountered a problem using the api for downloading/uploading campaigns with proximity targets. In adwords it is possible to define a proximity target with a 500 miles radius (804,762 meters), but via the api you can only create a targ

AdWords API Re: Sandbox v200909 - Limit per Account

2009-12-17 Thread ZSvedic
Hi, Campaign names are unique and you cannot create new campaign with the same name as deleted campaign (because deleted campaigns are still there, just with deleted status). You have few options: a) Don’t create a new campaign, just un-delete the campaign with the same name. For that you need to

AdWords API Sample code for v2009

2009-12-17 Thread Alexis
Hi, Is it possible to have the same as http://code.google.com/intl/fr-FR/apis/adwords/docs/samples.html for the v2009 of the api adwords? Cause here i'm totally lost Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to

AdWords API Sandbox v200909 - Limit per Account

2009-12-17 Thread Faisal Dgs
Hi All, I think there is a limit of 25 campaigns per account for Sandbox. Please correct me I am wrong here. My problem is that I have created a campaign named "Test" and it's status is Active by default. Now if I set it's status to Deleted and I try to create to another campaign named "Test" I a

AdWords API Re: v2009 equivalent of ApiError.getIndex()?

2009-12-17 Thread MarkoZ
Hi, No, ApiError array is not indexed the same as input array. If in input array 3rd item has an error, then the first item in ApiError array will point to the 3rd item (it can't point to first because first item in input array didn't had any error). In v2009 ApiError has new property: fieldPath