Is anyone else using the Placement Performance reports feature of the API, and seeing a difference (sometimes) between the data in the XML file loaded via the API, and the data shown when running the same report criteria in the UI? In fact, if I use the API to request the report ID of the report generated in the UI, it matches the UI displayed data, but differs from the report requested and loaded via the API.
What I am seeing is that the file requested by the API has 2 records for one of the placement sites (ironically it is "gmail.com"), one of which exactly matches the single record contained in the UI generated report. The only differences between the two are the siteTargeted values and the actual metrics. The correct metrics (ie, those that match both the UI Placement Report and the Keyword Performance Report data) are for the 2rd record of the pair, which has a siteTargeted value of "gmail.com" whereas the 1st record has a blank siteTargeted value. That might sound like a "duh, of course" situation, but the confusion is over the fact that the 1st record also has non-zero metrics, and I cannot account for them (where do they come from?) in any of the other reports. I cannot just ignore records with no siteTargeted values, because the whole purpose of doing the download is to analyze those records for possible placement creation via the API, and (depending on my application user's analysis paremeters), that second records might end up looking like a candidate when in fact it had already been turned into a site-specific placement (which is where the data for the first record originates). The Report ID for the API generated placement performance report is 738462255, and for the UI generated report is 746302515. Anyone else seen anything like this? Thanks everyone, Reed --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
