Re: Determining if a Keyword is Adult or Non-Adult

2016-08-30 Thread Charles Michael
The best methodology I came up with was to do API requests, one keyword at a time with and without the adult filter in place and then comparing the results. It's not ideal, but it does work, just very slowly. On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 11:32:51 AM UTC-4, Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team

Re: Determining if a Keyword is Adult or Non-Adult

2016-08-30 Thread 'Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API Forum
Hello Charles, Shwetha passed this on to me to see if I could come up with a more efficient way of doing this. Unfortunately, I can't think of a better way. If I come up with a more efficient way, I'll make sure to post back. Regards, Nadine, AdWords API Team On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 5:48

Re: Determining if a Keyword is Adult or Non-Adult

2016-08-29 Thread Charles Michael
I don't think bundling 200 seed keywords together would help as it wouldn't be conclusive which keyword suggestion is the result of which seed keyword. I'm afraid it would be necessary to do 1 keyword at a time in order to get conclusive results. On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 5:34:54 PM UTC-4,

Re: Determining if a Keyword is Adult or Non-Adult

2016-08-29 Thread 'Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API Forum
Hi Charles, I'm afraid there is no other service in AdWords API to perform this function. A maximum of 200 seed keywords can be included per keyword idea request. This would mean a total of 1000 requests in this s

Re: Determining if a Keyword is Adult or Non-Adult

2016-08-29 Thread Charles Michael
That was the plan, I was thinking of running a search with and a search without the adult flag and based on the volume of suggestions, conclude whether the keyword is adult. Unfortunately this is a very costly algorithm, requiring 2 lookups per keyword. At 100K+ keywords, that's a lot of reques

Re: Determining if a Keyword is Adult or Non-Adult

2016-08-29 Thread 'Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API Forum
Hi Charles, I'm afraid TargetingIdeaService is the one to use to get keyword statistics. But there isn't an option in the service to determine if a keyword can be classified as adult or non-adult. You can use the I

Determining if a Keyword is Adult or Non-Adult

2016-08-29 Thread Charles Michael
Hello, I'm looking to split my keyword lists (100K+ keys) into an adult and non-adult list in order to avoid bidding on keywords that Google might not recognize as adult and vice-versa. Has anyone had experience with effective techniques with Google to determine if a keyword is adult in nature o