Hi Piet, My apologies, yes I meant AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES. In regards to the delay before last month's search volume becomes available, from what I can tell this behavior is not going to change. This may mean that for a weeks time you receive 11 months of data instead of 12.
Best, - Eric On Apr 6, 5:27 am, Teabeats <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the quick reply! > > I presume you meant the "AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES" attribute: > does this average value include the last month that is only available > after one week in the monthly volumes attrib? > Also will there be a way in the future to determine wether the last > month is still being processed (thus not being returned) or the value > will never be known for the entire month? > > In effect the monthly volumes attribute will now return only values > for the past 11 months (in the first week) instead of the documented > 12? > > Thanks, Piet. > > On 5 apr, 16:58, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Piet, > > > The TargetingIdeaService is based on different technology than the > > KeywordToolExternal, and the results are more closely related to the > > Search-based Keyword Tool: > > > http://www.google.com/sktool/ > > > The monthly search volume is not available for the current month, > > since the month is still in progress. Last month's search volume is > > made available about a week after the end of the month. For an > > average value you can use the attribute TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES: > > > http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... > > > Best, > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > On Apr 2, 10:18 am, Teabeats <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > It seems that the count we get for the most recent month (from a > > > MonthlySearchVolume type) always returns null. The docs read "The > > > approximate number of searches in this year/month. A null count means > > > that data is unavailable or unknown". Which makes me wonder, why we > > > don't get all data based on 1 month earlier? Will this be something we > > > need to take into account? The KeywordToolExternal seems to display > > > all 12 months with at least some volumes, for all keywords I have > > > tested this on. > > > > Grtz, Piet. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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.
