AdWords API Re: Picking up information like AdGroupId, KeywordId and TextAdId on Landing page

2009-01-14 Thread tank104
Thanks mate perfect! Quite hard to find on the api website - but I have the answers now cheers. On Jan 13, 6:42 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hello, > >  There's nothing specific to the AdWords API for doing this, but > AdWords in general does support dynamically inserting creative and > cri

AdWords API Re: conversion tracking code thru API?

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Chris, Could you elaborate a bit more on what exactly you're trying to do? What conversion tracking system are you using (a third party one or Google AdWords/Analytics conversions) and what kind of data are you looking to retrieve? I have a feeling that what you're trying to do is not su

AdWords API Re: getGzipReportDownloadUrl() returning empty reports

2009-01-14 Thread tozor
I wanted to report an occurrence this morning, and more importantly the fact that my workaround strategy was successful. Basically here is what I am doing: 1) Download the file from the URL which is returned from getGzipReportDownloadUrl() 2) Check the file size. If it is 30 bytes or less, then

AdWords API Re: getKeywordsFromSite Negative Keywords / Exact Match

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Nick, Yes, specifying negative keywords should allow you to get more useful variations back, given that there is a cap of 200 returned from the KeywordToolService's methods. But unfortunately getKeywordsFromSite() doesn't accept negative keyword filters as a parameter. Thanks for clarify

AdWords API Re: avgSearchVolume & lastMonthSearchVolume

2009-01-14 Thread Nader Soliman
Thanks Jeff for the confirmation. On Jan 13, 9:32 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hello Nader, > >  The numbers should be in line with the results for the Broad Match > Type volumes if you used > >  https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal > > with the same language and geographic

AdWords API Re: SearchQueryReportJob (v13) not returning data from "yesterday"

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, I know that the Placement Performance report has a specific Help Center article explaining that results aren't available until after 3pm Pacific Time on the following day: http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=71962 I don't see a corresponding article suggesting the s

AdWords API Re: Client Libraries for V13

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Hosung, Good point--I'm going to reach out to Rohan, who's been good enough to develop keep the Perl client library up to date so far, and confirm what his plans are. I know that he occasionally posts in this forum as well, so he might end up answering himself. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWo

AdWords API Re: An internal error has occurred. Please retry your request. in Sandbox

2009-01-14 Thread Plaudit
Yup still broke for me too. Wish they could just hit a magic roll back button but I imagine it's a bit more complicated than that. On Jan 13, 9:08 am, Phil <5000...@googlemail.com> wrote: > It apperas this problem is still ongoingI am getting the same > problem as everyone else here. > Can a

AdWords API Re: Picking up information like AdGroupId, KeywordId and TextAdId on Landing page

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, We don't mention this anywhere on the AdWords API developer's site because this functionality is completely separate from the AdWords API. It's a feature built in to the AdWords serving system. I must admit that the full range of tags aren't featured very prominently on the AdWords help

AdWords API Re: getKeywordsFromSite Negative Keywords / Exact Match

2009-01-14 Thread Nick
Thank you for the clarification. On Jan 14, 3:58 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hello Nick, > >  Yes, specifying negative keywords should allow you to get more useful > variations back, given that there is a cap of 200 returned from the > KeywordToolService's methods. But unfortunately getKeyw

AdWords API Re: Client Libraries for V13

2009-01-14 Thread hhwang
Thanks for your reply, but what would be the answers for other questions 2 and 3? Best regards, Hosung Hwang On Jan 14, 8:12 am, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hello Hosung, > >  Good point--I'm going to reach out to Rohan, who's been good enough > to develop keep the Perl client library up to d

AdWords API Re: "developer token is invalid" error with existing, approved, valid developer token...?

2009-01-14 Thread purdue512
Hi again Jeff. We are also getting a response of: faultstring: The developer token is invalid. for a call to the CriterionService using updateCriteria. Two things are odd: 1) This exact code works in the Sandbox. 2) The headers we are using work in Prod for pulling back Campaigns, Adgroups an

AdWords API Re: "developer token is invalid" error with existing, approved, valid developer token...?

2009-01-14 Thread purdue512
Nevermind Jeff... Our bad! Hope I got this posted before you wasted any time looking at it. On Jan 14, 4:31 pm, purdue512 wrote: > Hi again Jeff. > > We are also getting a response of: > > faultstring: The developer token is invalid. > > for a call to the CriterionService using updateCriteria

AdWords API point of clarification about "globally unique"

2009-01-14 Thread crozzer
We have many accounts under an MCC. Can someone clarify the following statement? Does that mean globally unique _within an account_, or does that mean globally unique _across all accounts in google_? "Campaign, AdGroup, Criterion, and Ad objects all have IDs that are set by the AdWords API web

AdWords API Re: point of clarification about "globally unique"

2009-01-14 Thread crozzer
from page: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_services.html I'm asking b/c I'm running into primary key constraints while entering (keyword) criterion into my DB. I have set a compound primary key on Criterion_ID + AdGroup_ID, which should work unless AdGroup_ID is o

AdWords API Re: Client Libraries for V13

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, Google intends to keep all the "official" client libraries up to date. We usually release an updated version of each client library within a few weeks of a new API release going live. The Perl client library is the only widely-used library that is not maintained by a Google employee. It

AdWords API Re: An internal error has occurred. Please retry your request. in Sandbox

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
It is unfortunately more complicated. What the Sandbox is experiencing is a failure to communicate with the service that checks for ad/ criteria policy violations, and there are several engineers from both the AdWords API team and the team responsible for our AdWords policy checks working on resol

AdWords API Re: Client Libraries for V13

2009-01-14 Thread Rohan Almeida
Hi, I'm surely going to be putting out a version which supports v13 well before the deadline of v12, but no guarantees about the new features which would be available though. That said... No, the Perl library is not officially supported by Google. But it is open source (yeah, a blessing in d

AdWords API Re: point of clarification about "globally unique"

2009-01-14 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, Ad group and campaign ids are globally unique across all of AdWords. Using a compound key of criterion id and ad group id should avoid any possible collisions regardless of which account the criteria are in. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 14, 5:39 pm, crozzer wrote: >

AdWords API how to get a keyword min cpc value with V13

2009-01-14 Thread hhwang
Hi, Adwords. I used to use "CriterionService.getCriteria" service call to get a keyword min cpc value from Keyword data object. Now Keyword.minCpc field is removed with V13. How could I still get minCpc value for a particular keyword in V13? Thanks, Hosung Hwang --~--~-~--~~-

AdWords API Re: An internal error has occurred. Please retry your request. in Sandbox

2009-01-14 Thread pquery
I've been experiencing this problem as well. Put I've just refreshed and the ad as been added successfully. On Jan 14, 11:19 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > It is unfortunately more complicated. What the Sandbox is experiencing > is a failure to communicate with the service that checks for ad/

AdWords API Re: point of clarification about "globally unique"

2009-01-14 Thread crozzer
thanks jeff, for the record it turns out my code had been timing out and trying again without rolling back the timedout insert. So, when it tried again, it was seeing the partial results of the previous attempt. Fixed on my side. thanks again. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

AdWords API How to download XML Reports

2009-01-14 Thread savithacav...@gmail.com
Hi I am very new to Adwords. Please help me how to get the XML in php using getUrlXmlReport function. It says Download OK message. Please let me know with sample code about this XML download file. Thanks Savitha --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

AdWords API CriterionService Keyword data object now misses minCpc in V13

2009-01-14 Thread hhwang
Keyword data object used in CriterionService now misses minCpc field in V13. This creates a big headache to our existing code that works for V12 currently. The following APIs are used in our existing code: CriterionService.getCriteria CriterionService.addCriteria CriterionService.updateCrit

AdWords API Re: An internal error has occurred. Please retry your request. in Sandbox

2009-01-14 Thread Plaudit
Yup I just tried it and it works for me as well. On Jan 14, 4:20 pm, pquery wrote: > I've been experiencing this problem as well.  Put I've just refreshed > and the ad as been added successfully. > > On Jan 14, 11:19 pm, AdWords API Advisor > > wrote: > > It is unfortunately more complicated. W