Hi Kevin, Unfortunately no, keyword stats and ideas will remain EXACT match for the foreseeable feature. This is due to backend changes in the systems that provide these estimates/ideas.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 1:20:18 PM UTC-4, Kevin Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > I posted a message on the forum ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/global_monthly_search/adwords-api/D75_pfZsjyM/MzfnG_fIhe4J) > awhile > back regarding to this issue. I did get a response from David Torres, and > here is his message: > >> The new SEARCH_VOLUME is equivalent to GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES when no >> LocationSearchParameter >> and LanguageSearchParameter are specified, on the flip side SEARCH_VOLUME >> is equivalent to AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES if a language and/or >> a location is required. > > > However, this is only true if we want to get search volume for EXACT match > keywords, and there are no way that I could find to get search volume for > keywords with other match types such as BROAD match. Given that our system > depends on getting search volume for BROAD match keywords, this migration > becomes nontrivial. Are there any plan to add this feature back? > > I included soap requests and responses for v201109 and v201206. > > V201109: > ============== > Request Body: > <soapenv:Body> > <get xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201109";> > <selector> > <searchParameters xsi:type="ns8:RelatedToKeywordSearchParameter" > xmlns:ns8="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201109";> > <keywords> > <ns9:text xmlns:ns9=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109";>shoes</ns9:text> > <ns10:matchType xmlns:ns10=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109";>BROAD</ns10:matchType> > </keywords> > </searchParameters> > <ideaType>KEYWORD</ideaType> > <requestType>STATS</requestType> > > <requestedAttributeTypes>GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</requestedAttributeTypes> > <paging> > <ns11:startIndex xmlns:ns11=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109";>0</ns11:startIndex> > <ns12:numberResults xmlns:ns12=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109 > ">800</ns12:numberResults> > </paging> > </selector> > </get> > </soapenv:Body> > > Response Body: > <soap:Body> > <getResponse xmlns:ns2=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109"; xmlns=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201109";> > <rval> > <totalNumEntries>1</totalNumEntries> > <entries> > <data> > <key>GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</key> > <value xsi:type="LongAttribute" xmlns:xsi=" > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > <Attribute.Type>LongAttribute</Attribute.Type> > <value>68000000</value> > </value> > </data> > </entries> > </rval> > </getResponse> > </soap:Body> > > V201206: > =============== > > Request Body: > <soapenv:Body> > <get xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201206";> > <selector> > <searchParameters xsi:type="ns8:RelatedToQuerySearchParameter" > xmlns:ns8="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201206";> > <queries>shoes</queries> > </searchParameters> > <ideaType>KEYWORD</ideaType> > <requestType>STATS</requestType> > <requestedAttributeTypes>SEARCH_VOLUME</requestedAttributeTypes> > <paging> > <ns9:startIndex xmlns:ns9=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201206";>0</ns9:startIndex> > <ns10:numberResults xmlns:ns10=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201206 > ">100</ns10:numberResults> > </paging> > </selector> > </get> > </soapenv:Body> > > Response Body: > <soap:Body> > <getResponse xmlns:ns2=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201206"; xmlns=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201206";> > <rval> > <totalNumEntries>1</totalNumEntries> > <entries> > <data> > <key>SEARCH_VOLUME</key> > <value xsi:type="LongAttribute" xmlns:xsi=" > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > <Attribute.Type>LongAttribute</Attribute.Type> > <value>4090000</value> > </value> > </data> > </entries> > </rval> > </getResponse> > </soap:Body> > </soap:Envelope> > > Thanks, > Kevin > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
