Same results everywhere from everyone. I'm not judge of anything, but I don't really like this move. I mean, what's in for users?
The takeaway here is, and correct me if I'm wrong, that you can't simply get global monthly searches without the google partners results in new api versions, coupled to the fact that old API versions are no longer usable, leaves the clients with little to none alternatives. I'm using the global network, as a last resort, I have to make two separate requests (let me rephrase, the upgrade has forced me to make two separate requests) in order to do a crazy nested hash merge of the global results I want. Is we API users who suffer, at least I'm suffering ;) If they were thinking to include a way to prevent that from happening, such as a filter, IMHO this should have been carried over first, or at least not deprecate the old functionality leaving us without options. Have you found other alternatives to getting those results? Feel free to post if you do. I just did with what I've done. On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:37:05 PM UTC-4, Sebastiaan Moeys wrote: > > I'm migrating my systems From V201109 to V201209, and I'm struggling with > a number of things. > > This issue is related to retrieving search volume for keywords I already > know. > > Googler David Torres said: > > 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. > > > So I did a test with the keyword 'games': > > - *API v201209 | No Targeting:* SEARCH_VOLUME 20,400,000 > - *API v201109 | EXACT:* GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES 16,600,000 > - *Keyword Tool Web UI | EXACT:* Global Monthly Searches 16,600,000 > > That's about 20% of non-equivalence. > > Then I did a local/targeted comparison with the Dutch word 'spelletjes', > meaning games: > > - *API v201209 | Dutch | The Netherlands:* SEARCH_VOLUME 1,000,000 > - *API v201109 | EXACT | Dutch | The Netherlands:* > AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES 823,000 > - *Keyword Tool Web UI | EXACT | Dutch | The Netherlands:* Global > Monthly Searches 823,000 > > Right now there will be a split between results from the web interface and > the API. This split is causing trouble in the team I work in. > > Some questions: > > 1. What is the exact difference in behaviour between the two API > versions? Why isn't this difference documented? Why isn't there a > migration > guide? > 2. Are you planning on permanently removing match type targeting (i.e. > broad/exact/phrase)? If so, could you tell why? Something else than > 'back-end changes' would be appreciated. Those back-end changes are made > for a reason. Could be a good reason, but we'd like to know. > 3. Do you plan on keeping the pre-v2012 features in the UI? That's my > greatest concern, since different people will be working with different > data. > > Otherwise very happy to be working with the API you provided, but would > like to hear from you about this. > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
