Hi, The keyword tool and the TrafficEstimatorService work differently, and their estimation results may vary. For a more accurate comparison, try using the Traffic Estimator Sandbox:
https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Mar 29, 12:17 pm, MipMapper <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using v13 of the Traffic Estimator Service, I was wondering why > the results I get back from the web service are different from the > Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) > > For example where the Maximum Cost Per Click is one pound sterling and > the keyword is oxford plumber: > > The API returns: > > Estimated Cost Per Click of £0.50 > > And the Keyword Tool returns: > > Estimated Cost Per Click is £0.87 > > The estimated cost per click from the api was calculated as below: > > long lower = kEstimates[0].lowerCpc; > long upper = kEstimates[0].upperCpc; > result = (lower + upper) / 2; // This is the average cost per click > result = result / 1000000; // Convert micro's to pounds > > The language setting's are the same and yet the values are different - > any ideas why? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
