Jonathan - I've been finding this as well. You'll probably find that v201209 stops working very soon and you'll have to migrate to v201206 - that said:
Annoyingly enough, it's been decided by our dear friends at Google to include 'Search Network' metrics to the volumes presented in the API. In the web interface (https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer ) when you have results for a search term, if you click 'columns' and make sure you include the 'Google Search Network' column, you'll see that the figures there match the volumes in the API results much more closely. This may help to allay your clients' fears about you misleading them! I've yet to come across a solution for this in the API - and it would explain as well why the API is only showing Exact Match volumes - because the Search Network doesn't deal with Broad or Phrase matches. If you find a way around this to just get the 'searches' then do shout - and we'll do the same if we see any solution! On Monday, 26 November 2012 21:57:32 UTC, Jonathan Leger wrote: > > I'm using v201209 of the TargetingIdeaService to get the Local Monthly and > Global Monthly Search volumes for a set of keywords. > > As an example, let's say the keywords are: *how to get rid of dark circles > * > > In the AdWords Keyword Tool (exact match, USA location) it returns 12,100 > as the count for Global Monthly Searches. > It returns that same number (12,100) if I remove the USA targeting and use > "All" locations. > > However, when I use the API TargetingIdeaService and specify the USA as > the location, it returns 8,100 as the "SEARCH_VOLUME" search count. If I > drop the location it returns 18,100. > > So under no circumstances do the numbers returned by the API match the > numbers shown by the Keyword Tool -- but it's the KW tool that my clients > check the results against. Naturally they think we're giving them the wrong > numbers because they're not the same, even though what we're displaying is > what the AdWords API is returning. > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
