Re: Parameter reverting to default due to line length, despite being under character limit

2014-06-24 Thread Ryan Gough
Ok, thanks Josh On Friday, June 20, 2014 7:42:43 PM UTC+1, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Ryan, > > Jason's earlier post summed up the issue quite well. The character length > limit is a rough guideline, but there may be situations where the # of > characters is within the limi

Re: Parameter reverting to default due to line length, despite being under character limit

2014-06-20 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Ryan, Jason's earlier post summed up the issue quite well. The character length limit is a rough guideline, but there may be situations where the # of characters is within the limit, but due to the width of those characters we have to fall back to the default value. I'll update our Ad Parame

Re: Parameter reverting to default due to line length, despite being under character limit

2014-06-20 Thread Ryan Gough
Oh I appreciate that there is not an "easy" solution, just wanted to clarify that what I had observed is correct. I could change our ads such that they only use 24 characters max in the headline, but that would then mean changing the copy of lots of ads that render quite happily with 25 charact

Parameter reverting to default due to line length, despite being under character limit

2014-06-20 Thread Jason Stedman
If you think about it, Google really only has so many options here. They cannot provide limits like "each lime must render within 300px" but they have to provide some kind of limit. They also cannot allow lines to wrap because it would make the ad look unprofessional. I feel like the charac

Parameter reverting to default due to line length, despite being under character limit

2014-06-20 Thread Ryan Gough
Hi, I've noticed that in some situations, the default value of my parameter is showing even when a value has been supplied and no line character limits are being broken. After some experimentation, I've seen that it relates to the actual width of the headline, rather than the number of charact