Hi all,
Thanks for your help on this. Before the messages came up I started
messing around and found that if I log into the AdWords UI proper, I
was able to add '{param1:default}' to the headline of ads, and it is
working well.
The only slight issue I have with it is that I have to run something
to first display each keyword associated with the ad, and then from
that update the param value for each keyword. We have around 10-20
keywords per ad, and so it seems to take a good 20-30 seconds. I'm
sure this is in part because of the way I've coded it, please see my
code below and if anyone can point out any changes I'd be very
grateful!!
// get all keywords for the adgroup
error_reporting(E_STRICT | E_ALL);
// You can set the include path to src directory or reference
// AdWordsUser.php directly via require_once.
$path = PATHREMOVED;
//$path = dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../src';
//set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);
require_once REMOVED;
try
{
// Get AdWordsUser from credentials in "../auth.ini"
// relative to the AdWordsUser.php file's directory.
$user = new AdWordsUser();
// Log SOAP XML request and response.
$user->LogDefaults();
// Get the AdGroupCriterionService.
$adGroupCriterionService = $user-
>GetAdGroupCriterionService('v201008');
$adGroupId = (float) $adgroup;
// Create selector.
$selector = new AdGroupCriterionSelector();
// Create id filter.
$idFilter = new AdGroupCriterionIdFilter();
$idFilter->adGroupId = $adGroupId;
$selector->idFilters = array($idFilter);
// Get all ad group criteria.
$page = $adGroupCriterionService->get($selector);
//*** Get the AdParamService. ***
$adParamService = $user->GetAdParamService('v200909');
// Display ad group criteria.
if (isset($page->entries))
{
foreach ($page->entries as $adGroupCriterion)
{
$type =
$adGroupCriterion->criterion->CriterionType;
if ($type == "Keyword")
{
try
{
$adGroupId = (float) $adgroup;
$keywordId = (float)
$adGroupCriterion->criterion->id;
// Create ad parameters.
$adParam1 = new
AdParam($adGroupId, $keywordId, $price, 1);
// Create operations.
$adParamOperation1 = new
AdParamOperation();
$adParamOperation1->operand =
$adParam1;
$adParamOperation1->operator =
'SET';
$operations =
array($adParamOperation1);
// Set ad parameters.
$adParams =
$adParamService->mutate($operations);
// Display ad parameters.
if (isset($adParams))
{
// output somethin
}
else
{
// output something
}
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
print $e->getMessage();
}
}
}
}
else
{
// no ad groups found
}
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
//print $e->getMessage();
}
The variable $price is set beforehand.
Thanks!
Darren
On Feb 4, 5:17 am, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> Navneet is correct, you cannot modify the ad's headline once it is
> created, so you cannot put the ad param in place for existing ads
> without deleting it and losing history. So as he suggests, try
> creating fresh ads with placeholders and change param values in the
> future.
>
> Cheers,
> Anash P. Oommen,
> AdWords API Advisor.
>
> On Feb 4, 3:33 am, Navneet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > In my understanding, you should not modify the existsing ads (if you
> > do that, you woll loose all history anyways). Best way to achive this,
> > create brand new ads with adaparams and then you can change the values
> > of these params in future without affecting the history.
>
> > Can somebody from Google API team confirm this?
>
> > On Feb 3, 1:29 pm, P Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi, thank you for your reply!! Very useful information!
>
> > > My only question is will this only work on ads created through the
> > > API, or can I set it up with my existing ads that were set up in the
> > > AdWords UI some time ago, and thus have lots of stats?
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > Darren
>
> > > On Feb 3, 7:30 pm, Navneet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi Darren,
> > > > You can use Adparams to achieve this.
>
> > > >http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-dynamic-ads-with-ad-param...
>
> > > > On Feb 3, 9:09 am, Darren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > I'm new to using the AdWords API, but need it to simply do the
> > > > > following:
>
> > > > > When we update a product price in our internal system, connect to the
> > > > > product's ad and edit the price, which is usually displayed in the
> > > > > 'headline' or one of the 'description' fields.
>
> > > > > I can't see how to do this from the example code, and have seen other
> > > > > posts on here suggesting it can't be done, and instead I'll need to
> > > > > delete the ad and create a new one (thus losing all of the data about
> > > > > the ad, which is not ideal).
>
> > > > > Any ideas?
>
> > > > > Thanks...- Hide quoted text -
>
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