AdWords API ADWORDS API RATE SHEET -- validate only apicall

2010-04-13 Thread RAGHAVA
HI, i am a bit confused with the API rate sheet. basically the documentation on this page http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/ratesheet.html states that "Setting the validateOnly request header to true will reduce the cost of the request to 0.05 API units per item, rounded up to the

AdWords API Re: Can i use ThreadLocal. to cache account/service per account per thread??

2010-04-13 Thread AdWordsNovice
Thanks Eric..Example was life saver. thanks again. On Apr 13, 2:47 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi, > > The login errors you mentioned are specifically from the ClientLogin > API, and another way of avoiding them is to simply cache the authToken > that it generates.  You can cache this to

AdWords API How to get campaign stats data for SEARCH network only

2010-04-13 Thread Dave L
rn data is the sum of SEARCH and CONTENT stats. How do I get separate stats for "SEARCH and "CONTENT"? Here is my XML request: = https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v200909";> 17205693 20100413 20100413 SEARCH

AdWords API Re: Keyword Categories

2010-04-13 Thread Crawl About
thanks for the reply. Any comment or advice on the quality of the keywords assigned to the categories? I have listed a bunch of obviously wrongly assigned keywords above. and there are tones more. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunse

AdWords API Re: No data return when AdGroupCriterionIdFilter set to "adGroupId"

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi David, Do you have the requestId of this request? Best, - Eric On Apr 13, 4:47 am, Dave L wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Ok, further to my last post, I have this similar problem happened > frequently again for different requests. For example, today, when I > called the following request, it took a lo

AdWords API Re: any way to test getting AdWordsApiException thrown?

2010-04-13 Thread BeeGeez
v200909 .NET On Apr 13, 12:44 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi, > > The AdWords API has versions like v200909, etc.  However the client > libraries are different, and there is one for Java, .NET, Python, PHP, > Perl, and Ruby: > >  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/clients.html > > Whic

AdWords API Re: getting different keywords TargetingIdeaService

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Andy, The v200909 TargetingIdeaService is based on technology similar to that of the Search-based Keyword Tool, while the v13 KeywordToolService is based on technology similar to the classic Keyword Tool: http://www.google.com/sktool/ https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

AdWords API Re: Throwing exception: [TargetingIdeaError.NO_PAGING_IN_SELECTOR @ selector.selector.selector]

2010-04-13 Thread BeeGeez
Okay, but is the totalNumEntries the total returned for all of the pages? Or is it only the total for that particular page? I would have to page to items beyond that limit(?) if it's only the total for each page. Also, why even have a get() method if the number of results is unknown? Why not ju

AdWords API Re: Data Discrepancies between v13 and v200909

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The reason that qualityInfo and firstPageCpc aren't being returned for these keywords is because they are in a campaign that only targets the Content Network. This information is only relevant for the Search Network and is not calculated / returned for campaigns that aren't targeting it. The

Re: AdWords API weird error when get campaign negative criterion using CampaignCriterionService

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Daniel, I am still expecting the fix for this issue to be rolled out this week. Please note, this issue only affects campaigns that use the "Below the fold" placement category exclusion. Best, - Eric On Apr 13, 1:23 am, Daniel wrote: > Hi Eric, > > anything new about this issue? Can we expe

AdWords API Re: edit ad extension error

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The TrafficEstimatorService has not yet been migrated to the v2009 version of the API, and for the time being you can continue to use the v13 version of the service to get this information. The TrafficEstimatorService is not part of the v13 sunset that is taking place on April 22nd. Best, -

AdWords API Re: Can TheadLocal be used in AdWords..any example..to reuse service and user account

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Please see my response on your other thread: http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/db376b96cc2a2d80/ Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 12, 1:26 am, AdWordsNovice wrote: > Is there any example using ThreadLocal to store AdWordUser and service > so tha

AdWords API Re: Can i use ThreadLocal. to cache account/service per account per thread??

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The login errors you mentioned are specifically from the ClientLogin API, and another way of avoiding them is to simply cache the authToken that it generates. You can cache this token for up to two weeks, and use it when you create new AdWordsUser objects. An example of handling authTokens m

AdWords API Re: Migration

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Daniel, Follow these directions to apply for a developer token: https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/adwordsapi/bin/answer.py?answer=15104 More information about the migration to v200909 can be found here: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2010/01/100-days-until-major-v13-sunset.html Best

AdWords API Re: Several Months for Approval

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Brandon, I apologize for the long delay in getting your tokens approved. Please send the email address of the account you registered with to adwordsapiadvi...@google.com and then reply to this thread so I know to check that mailbox. I'll look into your application and make sure it is handled c

AdWords API Re: ConversionOptimizer, BudgetOptimizer and the Adwords GUI

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Peer, Currently the ConversionOptimizer bidding strategy only works with the CLICKS PricingModel, which is was the AdWords web interface uses. https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=71022 Like elsewhere in the API, enums may contain values that aren't appropriate f

AdWords API [Newbie question] Sandbox UI

2010-04-13 Thread BVMedia
Hey All, I've been tasked with porting over our existing V13 system to V200909 and I have to say it's one hell of a challenge, especially for somebody with minimal understanding of V13. Anyway I'm just about done and I was wondering is there a Sandbox UI that I can see my api calls effect on the M

AdWords API Re: Not getting any campaigns back from sandbox

2010-04-13 Thread J
How do I create campaigns in sandbox account? Do I need to use mutate to create campaigns? I was under the impressions that I could download "test" campaigns from the sandbox. Thanks, J On Apr 13, 12:41 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi, > > Can you confirm that there are campaigns in that san

AdWords API Re: v2009 version of GetUnitCountForMethod (InfoService)?

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Yes, if you want to get usage of the mutate method you need to specify the operator field. Best, - Eric On Apr 12, 1:35 pm, BeeGeez wrote: > Thanks.  I thought it might be something like that.  Do I also need to > include the method operator (if the mutate method is being examined)? > > On

AdWords API Re: any way to test getting AdWordsApiException thrown?

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The AdWords API has versions like v200909, etc. However the client libraries are different, and there is one for Java, .NET, Python, PHP, Perl, and Ruby: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/clients.html Which of these are you using, if any? Best, - Eric On Apr 12, 1:33 pm, BeeGeez

AdWords API Re: Not getting any campaigns back from sandbox

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Can you confirm that there are campaigns in that sandbox account? If so, can you post the SOAP XML request and response? Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 12, 1:33 pm, J wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create JAX WS proxy and then connect to sandbox to > download campaigns. H

AdWords API Re: bulk mutate with asociated MCC

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Can you provide more technical details about the problem you are having? Is there an error being returned? Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 12, 12:42 pm, glownet wrote: > hello , i have a problem with bulk mutate operations, i'm using a mcc > account for do changes in some MCC,

AdWords API Re: getBulkKeywordIdeas On Inside Pages

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The TargetingIdeaService getBulkKeywordIdeas() method is optimized for certain situations, but may not be appropriate for others. Try using the get() method instead for this query and you may get better results. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 12, 10:30 am, CP wrote: > We've c

AdWords API Re: Throwing exception: [TargetingIdeaError.NO_PAGING_IN_SELECTOR @ selector.selector.selector]

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, As with all the services that support paging, the total number of items returned is contained in the totalNumEntries field of the page. Trying to page to items beyond that limits won't return any results. The TargetingIdeaSerice get() method is limited to 800 results, while the getBulkKeyword

AdWords API Re: Data Discrepancies between v13 and v200909

2010-04-13 Thread sidd
Here's the request ID for v200909: https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ v200909"> 8fe16556daf6af6fee226eb7835cb615 1 13620 1 Request ID for v13: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns="https://a

AdWords API Campaign schedule status in v200909

2010-04-13 Thread Suraiya
Hello, While working on call migration (from v13 to v200909), I noticed that our existing code (based on v13) had been accessing getAllAdWordsCampaigns() method of the campaign service and retrieving campaign schedule status from the result returned. How can I get an equivalent value of campaign sc

AdWords API Re: Reporting Problems

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi David, Looking at the logs this report eventually did complete. How long did you wait for the job to finish? Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 12, 11:33 am, "okiebug1...@gmail.com" wrote: > Good Morning All, > > I have the following SOAP Request, authentication hidden, which is >

AdWords API Bidding and Budgets

2010-04-13 Thread Jonathan Beebe
What happens if I use the API to set the bid of an AdGroup or Keyword to be larger than the Budget? Does it throw an error? Or will it allow that? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. Also find us on our blog a

AdWords API Re: Data Discrepancies between v13 and v200909

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Can you post the requestIds for those v200909 and v13 requests? Thanks, - Eric On Apr 13, 1:23 pm, sidd wrote: > Just tested it against an active campaign with an enabled ad group .. > > the firstPageCpc attribute is missing completely and qualityInfo is an > empty node. > > v200909: > >  

AdWords API Why do mutate operations automatically return list of modified objects?

2010-04-13 Thread dshevnock
Out of curiosity, why do the mutate operations (such as AdGroupService.mutate, AdGroupCriterionService.mutate, etc.) automatically return a full list of the modified objects? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010.

AdWords API Re: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The services that are being sunset are listed on the documentation home page in the red box: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/ Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 12, 9:39 am, Crawl About wrote: > seem to be some confusion...  Do you have a program using the Adwords > API? >

AdWords API Re: Reg: Terms and Condfitions

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The AdWords API terms and conditions are normally signed as part of the billing setup. If you have already set up billing on the MCC account that has your developer token then you should email adwords- supp...@google.com with your information and they can help you manually sign the terms and

AdWords API Re: BoomUserList in SE performance reports

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Birger, You can think of BoomUserLists as a type of automatic placement for the content network based off of Audience selections in AdWords. Best, - Eric On Apr 12, 3:36 am, Bfri wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On 8 Apr., 16:06, AdWords API Advisor > wrote: > > > I believe it is safe to ignore those

AdWords API Re: Data Discrepancies between v13 and v200909

2010-04-13 Thread sidd
Just tested it against an active campaign with an enabled ad group .. the firstPageCpc attribute is missing completely and qualityInfo is an empty node. v200909: 1252978338 61990868 Keyword

AdWords API Re: Data Discrepancies between v13 and v200909

2010-04-13 Thread sidd
I am seeing this discrepancy for about 700K keywords with active campaigns and enabled ad groups. I can't find a correlation between when I see the firstPageCpc and quality score and the records returns. It appears to happen across all accounts with all statuses. On Apr 13, 9:30 am, AdWords API

AdWords API Integrating with Internal Systems

2010-04-13 Thread JFreund
Is it possible to tie AdWords API in with my web database to track actual sales dollars and sales confirmation numbers as people clicking on my Adwords ads check out on my website? I am running into an issue with budgeting because of latent conversions - I fear I may be underspending. When custom

AdWords API Re: Keyword Categories

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, We are working on exposing the keyword categories in the AdWords API developer documentation, but I don't have an exact timeline of when that would be available. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 13, 2:39 am, Crawl About wrote: > Where are the categories for Jobs/Careers? > Where

AdWords API Re: Data Discrepancies between v13 and v200909

2010-04-13 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Both of these values are read only, and I think they may not be provided in campaigns that never ran, are deleted, etc. Are you seeing this behavior across your account? Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Apr 9, 12:43 pm, sidd wrote: > Hello: > > I am migrating our library to v200909

AdWords API Re: v200906 samples dont work it seems

2010-04-13 Thread Asif Solkar
Hi Christian In the sample code they have still left https://adwords-sandbox.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v200906/CampaignService I changed v200906 to v200909 it seems to work now , will figure out other errors , thanks for help On Apr 13, 5:29 pm, Christian Krahn wrote: > Hi Asif, > > v200906 is

AdWords API Re: v200906 samples dont work it seems

2010-04-13 Thread Asif Solkar
Hi Christian I am using com.google.api.adwords.v200909; still i get this error On Apr 13, 5:29 pm, Christian Krahn wrote: > Hi Asif, > > v200906 is deprecated and should not be used any more. > Try using v200909. > > - Christian > > On 12 Apr., 13:54, Asif Solkar wrote: > > > > > Hi Guys > > >

AdWords API Criterion Stats empty startDate and endDate with v2009

2010-04-13 Thread David Levy
Hi I am migrating my code from v13 to v2009 and I have a weird bug. I am trying to retrieve stats for specific Keywords and they come back with no startDate / endDate ... Adgroup stats are working and I am following the code samples so I am requiring your help ! :) Here is my request : http://s

AdWords API Report Service

2010-04-13 Thread pilldesign
Is there a planned date for report service migration to version v2009 ? Thanks in advance... -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com h

AdWords API Changing Adwords API billing information

2010-04-13 Thread Maurice van der Meer
Hi! When using the keywords api tool I keep getting back "This account has reached its user specified budget.". As I have sent in a big number of requests, I expected this to happen. However, I am unable to see what my current budget is and what billing information is used. Can anyone tell me wh

AdWords API Will i be able to use apility for ReportService after new API launch

2010-04-13 Thread Alexander Zubchenko
I'm interested in the subject question, because ReportService will not be included in the new API on launch. Could i use old client library without changes for this or should apply some changes to my code. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v

AdWords API EntityNotFound.INVALID_ID

2010-04-13 Thread iamjac
Hi Prouted, Yes, you are right. In PHP, we need to careful while passing long integer IDs. In few cases PHP can't handle it properly as reason mentioned here, http://definefoo.blogspot.com/2010/04/php-cannot-pass-datatype-long.html So, its always SAFE to apply Float type casting to the IDs befor

AdWords API Re: v200906 samples dont work it seems

2010-04-13 Thread Christian Krahn
Hi Asif, v200906 is deprecated and should not be used any more. Try using v200909. - Christian On 12 Apr., 13:54, Asif Solkar wrote: > Hi Guys > > I am using code samples for v200906 > refhttp://code.google.com/p/adwords-api-dotnet-samples/source/browse/tru... > > I am trying to make service c

Re: AdWords API 200909 ReportService

2010-04-13 Thread Christian Krahn
Hi, AccountService, ReportService and TrafficEstimatorService are not available yet in v2009. It's marked as "coming soon". - Christian On 12 Apr., 16:22, mra214 wrote: > Hi there. > > I was reading AdWords API docs for 200909 version and couldn't find > ReportService API documentation. > Is it

AdWords API Re: Several Months for Approval

2010-04-13 Thread BrandonHall
Thanks for the reply about app tokens. I just wish I could get the developer token approved or even disapproved. Just showing as pending for so long is frustrating. Obvious it got lost somewhere in the pipeline. On Apr 12, 8:43 pm, Crawl About wrote: > The Application Token isn't in use anymore.

AdWords API Re: AdParamService

2010-04-13 Thread andrea
Thanks so much! On 31 mar, 23:11, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi, > > Ad parameters can only be changed using the API, and are not exposed > in the AdWords web interface. > > Best, > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > On Mar 30, 12:23 pm, andrea wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I would like to kn

AdWords API Re: getting different keywords TargetingIdeaService

2010-04-13 Thread Andy Precise
hi Eric, many thanks for confirming. i've been asked by my boss to ask why the results are different. we use these keywords to pass onto a v13 service to get keyword stats. these stats are the basis of data we supply to clients, so it would help us to understand what the difference is.

AdWords API Re: No data return when AdGroupCriterionIdFilter set to "adGroupId"

2010-04-13 Thread Dave L
Hi Eric, Ok, further to my last post, I have this similar problem happened frequently again for different requests. For example, today, when I called the following request, it took a long time to response and return empty data after 3 or 5 minutes. It seems that this problem happens randomly, som

AdWords API Re: No data return when AdGroupCriterionIdFilter set to "adGroupId"

2010-04-13 Thread Dave L
On Mar 30, 1:58 am, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I just made a request using only the adGroupId field of the > AdGroupCriterionIdFilter, and it worked fine.  Do you have the SOAP > XML request andresponsefrom a request that demonstrates this > behavior? > > Best, > - Eric Koleda, Ad

AdWords API Re: Can i use ThreadLocal. to cache account/service per account per thread??

2010-04-13 Thread AdWordsNovice
Ok, Forget about going through all the crap..if it looks like..my simple question.. I want to avoid error because of frequent log in to account in AdWords. It causes errors, which most people recommended to reuse Account and Service in same thread.. e.g per client per thread to avoid. I am using J

AdWords API Re: Reg: Terms and Condfitions

2010-04-13 Thread Crawl About
Try logging into you adwords account, you will probably find a popup notice for you to agree to the new terms and conditions there -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. Also find us on our blog and discussion gr