Google Adword API, Query changes to maxBid per keyword or ad group in the past year

HI I would like to use the google adwords API to investigate the performance of different automatic bidding strategies per keyword and per ad group in the past year. For this study, I would like to get the history of the bid per keyword (or ad group) in a certain time window, checking, for e

Google Adwords API query the number of conversions per click

Hi all, I would like to query the number of conversions per click from a google adwords ADGROUP_PERFORMANCE_REPORT using the SOAP API. The following query (Python), # Create report definition. report = { 'reportName': 'Last 30 days ADGROUP_PERFORMANCE_REPORT', 'dateRangeType': 'LAST_30_DA

Google Adwords API query the number of conversions per click

Hi all, I would like to query the number of conversions per click from a google adwords ADGROUP_PERFORMANCE_REPORT using the SOAP API. The following query (Python), # Create report definition. report = { 'reportName': 'Last 30 days ADGROUP_PERFORMANCE_REPORT', 'dateRangeType': 'LAST_30_DA

Re: How to determine the different maximum CPC during a certain date range?

Hi, I would also be interested in this information for changes in the maxCPC. One solution which I could think about is to maintain a local database of the current value of maxCPC and update it every day. Does anybody know a better solution? On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 10:09:09 AM UTC+1, b.ka

Difference between KeywordContentMaxCpc and KeywordMaxCpc

Hi, I would like to understand the difference (and the meaning of) between KeywordMaxCpc, KeywordContentMaxCpc and InteractionBidAmount. In particular In the adgroups which I am looking at (which are all Display Network as filtered by the AdNewtorkType) : I get that KeywordMaxCpc is set to som

Get bid landscape for placements

Hi, is it possible to get an estimated bid landscape for placements on the GDN? I did try following the example def get_bid_landscape(client, ad_group_id, criterion_id): > # Initialize appropriate service. > data_service = client.GetDataService(version='v201309') > # Construct bid landscap

MaxCPC from DISPLAY_KEYWORD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT unexpected behaviour

Hi, I am querying the maxCPC for some adgroups from the DISPLAY_KEYWORD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT over a period of 2 months requested day by day. Then I aggregate the information at adGroupId and CampaignId level. >From my current understanding of the maxCPC field (based on previous posts), this valu

Re: Difference between KeywordContentMaxCpc and KeywordMaxCpc

Hi is there anybody who knows the answer to this question? :-( On Thursday, February 20, 2014 7:00:28 PM UTC+1, Luca Fiaschi wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to understand the difference (and the meaning of) between > KeywordMaxCpc, > KeywordContentMaxCpc and InteractionBi

Re: MaxCPC from DISPLAY_KEYWORD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT unexpected behaviour

Hi is there anybody who could answer this question? :-( On Thursday, February 27, 2014 6:17:01 PM UTC+1, Luca Fiaschi wrote: > > Hi, > I am querying the maxCPC for some adgroups from > the DISPLAY_KEYWORD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT over a period of 2 months requested > day by day. >

Scheduling Ads & Campaigns with python API - example

Hi I am looking for a code example of scheduling campaigns using the python API: basically I need something similar to https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/ad-scheduling where this logic is implemented for Java. Could anybody post an example for Python? -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~

AdExtensionError.INVALID_ADEXTENSION_TYPE when adding campaign sitelink

Hi, I am trying to add a sitelink to my campaign using the the following code: template = { "campaignId" : campaignId, "xsi_type": "CampaignAdExtension", "adExtension": { "xsi_type": "SitelinksExtension",

Re: Scheduling Ads & Campaigns with python API - example

x27;startMinute': "FIFTEEN", 'endMinute': "FORTY_FIVE" } mutable = { "campaignId": campaignId, "criterion": template } On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:42:34 PM UTC+1, Luca Fiaschi wrote: > > Hi I am looking for a code example of sch

Error Removing Feeds - Account feed budget full

Hi, I have added a bunch of feeds to a test account and created corresponding sitelinks following the API example. https://github.com/googleads/googleads-python-lib/blob/master/examples/adspygoogle/adwords/v201309/advanced_operations/add_site_links.py While continuing experimenting, I removed all

Re: Error Removing Feeds - Account feed budget full

res = feed_service.mutate(operations)[0] except adspygoogle.adwords.AdWordsErrors.AdWordsRequestError as e: raise adspygoogle.adwords.AdWordsErrors.AdWordsRequestError(e) which unfortunately returns the following error message: FeedError.FEED_ORIGIN_IS_NOT_USER On Thursday, Ma

Re: AdExtensionError.INVALID_ADEXTENSION_TYPE when adding campaign sitelink

PM UTC+1, Ray Tsang (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Luca, > > Please see the announcement on migrating to the > feeds<http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/08/adwords-api-upgrading-your-ad.html> > . > > Thanks, > > Ray > > On Wednesday, March 5,

Re: Error Removing Feeds - Account feed budget full

'operator': 'REMOVE', 'operand': { 'xsi_type': "Feed", 'id': feed['id'] } }] res = feed_service.mutate(operations)[0] On Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:01:22 AM

CriterionError.KEYWORD_HAS_INVALID_CHARS

Hi all, it seems that some of my keywords have invalid characters, however I do not see any problem with their text. CriterionError.KEYWORD_HAS_INVALID_CHARS @ operations[4935].operand.criterion.text; trigger:'d'tandoor (precint 10) penang' coul anybody point me to the error? -- -- =~=~=~=~=

Re: CriterionError.KEYWORD_HAS_INVALID_CHARS

It would be great if somebody could point me out to a list of all invalid characters and to the keyword size limits (maximum length in words). On Monday, March 10, 2014 11:38:49 AM UTC+1, Luca Fiaschi wrote: > > Hi all, > it seems that some of my keywords have invalid characters, >

Issue with bad and forbidden words when uploading new ads

Hi, we have a big issue with forbidden words in ads. When uploading the ads via API, some of them may cause the program to crash since innocent words in the text of the ad (like Tabak in PK language is kind of food) violate Google policies on forbidden words. Is it possible to have list of for

Passed daily rate limit on test account

Hi, we have passed the daily rate limit of our test account. How high is this limit (I know that it can change day by day but I mean now on average) ? I tried to create another test account, however when making request again this new account and still I get a rate exceeded error. Since the cred

Get Camapaign ID within DUPLICATE_CAMPAIGN error

When I have duplicate campaigns is it possible to get directly the ID of that campaign in the error message? error message {'fieldPath': 'operations[0].operand.name', 'reason': 'DUPLICATE_CAMPAIGN_NAME', 'trigger': 'PK-11003[S[Res_11003_EN]: s3hg_Pompei Station', 'ApiError_Type': 'CampaignErr

Dry run when executing Mutate operations

Hi all, I have to execute some operations with service.Mutate(operations) is there a generic way to get a dry run for this service (get mock response but do actually modify the live account) Thanks -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: ht

Re: Dry run when executing Mutate operations

] } } } all_operations.append(operation) client.partial_failure = True client.validate_only = True valid, failures = partial_failure_process_chunks(ad_group_criterion_service, all_operations, time_delay=10) if verbose>1: for el in valid:

Search Queries - which information and how to get it

Hi all, we are looking at search queries information as a mean to optimize our keyword basket. I have two questions: 1) I can see from the documentation that it is possible to access a specific SEARCH_QUERY_PERFORMANCE_REPORT. However, I cannot find the corresponding SOAP objects ... is th

CONCURRENT MODIFICATION Error

Hi all, I am getting quite often CONCURRENT MODIFICATION ERRORS when trying to upload KWs. I have a long list of operations and my strategy is to batch the requests and then call the mutate method of the service for the batch. Batch are uploaded in series therefore, there should not be any issue

Adding campaigns and kws multiple times

Hi, I would like a little clarification regarding adding an object (campaign, adgroup, kw ... ) multiple times: For example when I try to add a campaign with the same name 2 times I get an error (existing campaign). However this error does not occur when readding a kw with the same text. What

Shared keyword set across multiple campaigns

Hi all, with the latest API is it possible creating a shared set of Kws across multiple campaigns? Thanks -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~

OfflineConversionError.INVALID_CONVERSION_TYPE but the conversion name is there

Hi All I am getting a very similar error to this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adwords-api/xb8X9Ucsv80 reading that forum seems that the error was internally fixed by Google at the beginning of the month however I still get the following problem: I am uploading the conversion usi

Re: OfflineConversionError.INVALID_CONVERSION_TYPE but the conversion name is there

riday, May 30, 2014 6:19:52 AM UTC-4, Luca Fiaschi wrote: >> >> Hi All I am getting a very similar error to this post: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adwords-api/xb8X9Ucsv80 >> >> reading that forum seems that the error was internally fixed by Google at >&

Re: OfflineConversionError.INVALID_CONVERSION_TYPE but the conversion name is there

.client: On Friday, May 30, 2014 7:11:51 PM UTC+2, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Luca, > > There are way too many failed requests with that click id in the logs, > could you give me a specific request id that fails? The requestId is a > unique number that is ret

Re: OfflineConversionError.INVALID_CONVERSION_TYPE but the conversion name is there

But as soon as i want to upload data to it , it returns the >> OfflineConversionError.INVALID_CONVERSION_TYPE. >> >> I read somewhere that it might take up to 6 hours before the new labels have >> been synced. >> I've waited for over 24 hours but still get the same r

Re: OfflineConversionError.INVALID_CONVERSION_TYPE but the conversion name is there

Hi Josh, I am having the same issue. I am trying to upload the conversions looping over all my clientCustumerId looking for one account that matches the one of the clickID but I always get the response error: UNAUTHORIZED_USER This is puzzling since I am quite sure to have the correct access r

Re: OfflineConversionError.INVALID_CONVERSION_TYPE but the conversion name is there

etc. of those customers are you > using the exact same credentials (OAuth2 access token) you are using in the > conversion upload call? > > Thanks, > Josh, AdWords API Team > >> On Thursday, July 3, 2014 4:00:42 AM UTC-4, Luca Fiaschi wrote: >> Hi Josh, &g

Colored labels via API

Hi all, since version v201406 it is possible to add labels via API. I was wondering if there is the opportunity to give assign a color to the labels : (by default they are created in gray) Thanks -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https

Re: Colored labels via API

again, is there a way to add labels descriptions? On Friday, July 25, 2014 9:22:04 AM UTC+2, Luca Fiaschi wrote: > > Hi all, > since version v201406 it is possible to add labels via API. > I was wondering if there is the opportunity to give assign a color to the > labels : (by d

updating the bids for million of keywords as fast as possible

Hi, I have some general question about scalability for an infrastructure that we are currently developing: we need to be able to update the bids for millions of keywords as fast as possible ( order of minutes response time (!) ). We are currently submitting batches of 10k requests and wait fo

Re: MANUAL_CPC is not supported in v201402?

Hi I have a similiar error with api version v201402: indeed using "anonymous" bidding strategy for the ManualCpcBiddingScheme works only if the parameter 'enhancedCpcEnabled' is set to 'false', when the parameter is set to true, the shared bidding strategy and the "anonymus" bidding strategy fa

SEARCH_QUERY_PERFORMANCE_REPORT empty report

Hi, I just noticed a strange behaviour when downloading reports: the following report definition will return an empty report: SELECT MatchType,MatchTypeWithVariant, KeywordTextMatchingQuery, AdGroupId, CampaignId,Query FROM SEARCH_QUERY_PERFORMANCE_REPORT WHERE MatchTypeWithVariant IN [NEAR_E

account simplification: close variant matching NEAR_EXACT match

Hi , I would like to understand better how close variants work and whether this opportunity can be used to simplify the accounts structure: My questions are the following: 1) We see that keywords like "nike shoes" can be triggered by mispellings like "nik shoes" or singular/ plural variants lik

Re: account simplification: close variant matching NEAR_EXACT match

/adwords/?hl=en#topic=3119071> or post your > question to the AdWords Community forum > <https://www.en.adwords-community.com/>. > > Cheers, > Josh, AdWords API Team > > On Monday, August 25, 2014 8:40:18 AM UTC-4, Luca Fiaschi wrote: >> >> Hi , >>

Offline conversion, timezone format clarification UTC

Hi all, I have some offline conversion to upload where the timestamp for the click id is in UTC format. Unfortunately, I could not find it anywhere in the documentation, hence my question is: Is it possible to upload UTC as timestamp ? If it is not possible, could I just change all the time s

Re: Offline conversion, timezone format clarification UTC

> So you should be able to upload the conversions in whatever time zone is > most convenient for you, and we'll do the conversion on our end. > > Regards, > Mike, AdWords API Team > > On Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:25:16 AM UTC-4, Luca Fiaschi wrote: >> >>

typo in bidding scheme definition

Hi, I just noticed a typo in the bidding scheme definition. API_VERSION = v201406 googleads version = 1.0.7 Trying to upload a bidding scheme, this request works fine, with "Constained" misspelled biddingScheme = { 'xsi_type': 'PageOnePromotedBiddingScheme', 'strategyGoal':

Click through rate bigger the 100%

Hi, Pulling a keyword performance report SELECT Clicks, Conversions, Cost, ConversionValue,Impressions, Id, KeywordText, Ctr, AdGroupName, AccountDescriptiveName, MaxCpc, AverageCpc FROM KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT WHERE Id != 300 AND Id != 306 AND Impressi