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 - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
