I didn't notice that Andriy isn't specifying a language target. I did
specify language and country target, in my test, but I'd like to get a
confirmation from the AdWords team, which values correspond to the
values reported by v13 and Keyword Tool.

On Mar 25, 4:06 pm, rick <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've played with this quite a bit. Average targeted monthly searches
> only
> shows the searches you've selected with your filter. For example, if
> you
> used en/US as your language and country filter, you'd only see the
> traffic
> for English searches in the US. I definitely get back number for
> average
> and the numbers seem pretty reasonable when we compare them against
> impression counts for similarly targeted SEM ads where we rank very
> high.
>
> It doesn't look like you've specified any filters in your example, so
> I'm not
> sure why you're not seeing global and targeted searches being the
> same.
> Maybe it doesn't populate it unless you have at least one language or
> country selector.
>
> On Mar 25, 5:52 pm, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > We're seeing this issue too. The Keyword Tool, and v13 API return the
> > same value as GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES. The
> > AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES value is either lower or null.
>
> > On Mar 24, 3:09 am, Andriy Kud <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Through old (v13) API I get this:
> > > Array
> > > (
> > >     [0] => Array
> > >         (
> > >             [text] => google keyword
> > >             [language] =>
> > >             [advertiserCompetitionScale] => 5
> > >             [avgSearchVolume] => 301000
> > >             [lastMonthSearchVolume] => 165000
> > >         )
>
> > > )
>
> > > And this comes from v200909 using 
> > > $targetingIdeaSelector->requestedAttributeTypes = array('COMPETITION',
>
> > > 'GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES', 'KEYWORD','TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES'):
>
> > > Array
> > > (
> > >     [0] => Array
> > >         (
> > >             [text] => google keyword //KEYWORD
> > >             [language] =>
> > >             [advertiserCompetitionScale] => 5 //COMPETITION*5
> > >             [avgSearchVolume] => 301000 //GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES 
> > > (notAVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES- can't get any result on this
> > > attribute)
> > >             [lastMonthSearchVolume] => 368000 //
> > > TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES (the last month value - 2010-02 for now)
> > >         )
> > > )
> > > As you can see there is a difference between 'lastMonthSearchVolume'
> > > values. Why?

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