Hi Oliver, Sorry for the delay. Can you share your request XML? Let me pull reports against your campaigns and see the behavior.
Best, - Takeshi, AdWords API Team On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 11:44:09 PM UTC+9, Oliver wrote: > > Hi Takeshi, > > Sorry to chase this, do you have any idea why the keyword performance > report is behaving in such an inconsistent way? > > There is no includeZeroImpression issue here because, as my test showed, > the keywords have impressions, but they are just not returned in some of > the reports. This is happening for a small set of campaigns only. We > downloaded the keyword performance reports for thousands of campaigns every > day but it's happening only with 7 of them. > > Oliver > > On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:18:02 AM UTC, Oliver wrote: >> >> Hi Takeshi, >> >> I'm not explicitly setting the includeZeroImpressions flag to any value. >> But the documentation says that if we use predicates, then we will always >> get back all the structural data. >> >> This works, by the way, *even for test accounts *where there are no >> impressions at all. Our code still manages to download all structural data >> when using test accounts because we're using predicates. >> >> I just did a small test; I downloaded *two *Keyword Performance reports >> for one of the above campaigns I mentioned; >> >> *Report 1* >> I requested structural data only. All report downloads require a date >> range so I used ALL_TIME. I got back *X *keywords. >> >> *Report 2* >> I requested the impressions, again using ALL_TIME. I got back *X + 29 * >> keywords. >> >> >> Both reports were downloaded using the same code. The only difference is >> in the fields requested. >> >> So the question is, if *Report 2 *gave me the keywords that must have >> had impressions, why didn't *Report 1 *give them the same number of >> keywords (since they all had impressions)? >> >> >> Oliver >> >> >> On Friday, February 7, 2014 4:54:24 AM UTC, Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords API >> Team) wrote: >>> >>> Hi Oliver, >>> >>> Even if you don't include "Impressions" reports should return the data >>> where it has impressions unless includeZeroImpressions flag is true. >>> (But as I said, Keyword Performance Report doesn't support the flag as >>> of now) >>> >>> Best, >>> - Takeshi, AdWords API Team >>> >>> On Thursday, February 6, 2014 4:33:46 PM UTC+9, Oliver wrote: >>>> >>>> Takeshi, >>>> >>>> I'm using the report to get structural data only, and not impressions. >>>> The date a keyword was added does not matter for such data. If a keyword >>>> was added last week, it should still be returned in a report with an >>>> ALL_TIME date range. That's how the system have worked from day one and >>>> that's how it's documented. includeZeroImpressions does not play any part >>>> here. I am not requesting impressions. I'm simply requesting keyword IDs. >>>> >>>> There is something else going on, and it's only specific to a very >>>> small number of campaigns. >>>> >>>> Any other ideas please? >>>> >>>> Oliver >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:28:31 AM UTC, Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords >>>> API Team) wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Oliver >>>>> >>>>> My guess is that those campaigns have impressions before the time >>>>> range of requested ones (LAST_DAY, LAST_MONTH etc). >>>>> As far as I remember includeZeroImpressions flag is not supported by >>>>> Keyword Performance Report. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> - Takeshi, >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 5:15:21 PM UTC+9, Oliver wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I forgot to mention we're using the keyword performance report to get >>>>>> structural data *only*. There is no performance data and hence no >>>>>> zero impression issues. >>>>>> >>>>>> The number of keywords returned in such a structural report should >>>>>> always be the same, irrespective of the date range used when requesting >>>>>> the >>>>>> report. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, for only those specific campaigns, the report for ALL_TIME >>>>>> date range gives different results. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any ideas? >>>>>> >>>>>> Oliver >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Monday, February 3, 2014 8:33:18 AM UTC, Oliver wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We download the keyword performance report for various date ranges. >>>>>>> For a given campaign, the number of keywords in a report is always the >>>>>>> same irrespective of the date range, which is what is expected. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> However, only for 7 campaigns of one of our clients, the number of >>>>>>> keywords that come back in the *ALL_TIME* date range keyword report >>>>>>> is *higher *than the number of keywords that come back in all other >>>>>>> date ranges (LAST_&_DAYS, LAST_MONTH, etc.) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This happens only for one client and only for 7 of his campaigns. >>>>>>> The customer ID is 7582349760 and the 7 campaign IDs are: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 7136351 >>>>>>> 8075351 >>>>>>> 6427991 >>>>>>> 95861 >>>>>>> 31699811 >>>>>>> 5553191 >>>>>>> 7146191 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any idea why this inconsistent behavior of the keyword performance >>>>>>> report? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Oliver >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. 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