We'd like to know if it's possible to make a call to the API to
determine whether or not a keyword already exists in a particular
adgroup.

On Jul 13, 4:16 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  The recommended solution would be to keep track of which keywords are
> currently in a given ad group, and don't attempt add identical
> keywords to the same ad group.
>
>  That being said, if you try to add a keyword into an ad group that
> already has a keyword with the same text and match type, nothing
> disastrous should happen. The existing keyword (including click
> history) should be maintained. You'll be charged for the keyword
> addition, though.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
>
> On Jul 13, 3:50 pm, notalian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > We are trying to use Adwords API to add keyword to an existing
> > adgroup. We'd like to implement it so it ignores keywords that already
> > exist and inserts only the ones that do not exist in the adgroup.
>
> > Currently, API inserts all keywords which results in duplicate
> > keywords. We are using code found on this 
> > page:http://adwords-api-dotnet-samples.googlecode.com/svn-history/r25/trun...
>
> > // Add keyword if there are no policy violations.
> >         if (errors == null) {
> >           Criterion[] criteria = service.addCriteria(
> >             new Criterion[] {keyword});
>
> > Please refer us to the documentation that we should look at or suggest
> > what we should do. We'd appreciate any help.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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