Thanks for investigating. It's odd that a click that converts can be spam, but I'll take the free conversion.
-- Devesh On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just now received confirmation that you can see conversions <> 0 with > clicks = 0 if AdWords determined that the conversion's click was spam. > > Cheers, > Josh, AdWords API Team > > > On Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:19:28 PM UTC-5, Devesh Parekh wrote: > >> That query just isolates one particular case I've run into. A colleague >> reported hitting the same issue earlier, so I think it's happened before, >> but he didn't remember the details for when he saw it. >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I see that the *Dimensions* tab shows the same data for the *Search >>> terms* view, but I agree that the combination of conversions with zero >>> clicks looks odd. I'm looking into whether this behavior is expected. >>> >>> Do you see this combination for other dates as well, or is Aug 11 2013 >>> special? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Josh, AdWords API Team >>> >>> On Monday, November 18, 2013 2:08:56 AM UTC-5, Devesh Parekh wrote: >>>> >>>> My search query report request returned a row with 0 clicks and 1 >>>> conversion. I don't know what to make of that because the documentation >>>> says that conversions are attributed to the times of the clicks that led to >>>> them (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2679221?hl=en). See >>>> related discussion here: https://groups.google.co >>>> m/forum/#!searchin/adwords-api/zero$20clicks$20non-zero >>>> >>>> How should I interpret this data? >>>> >>>> Example: >>>> Account: 1429842614 >>>> >>>> Query: >>>> SELECT Clicks, Conversions >>>> FROM SEARCH_QUERY_PERFORMANCE_REPORT >>>> WHERE Clicks = 0 AND Conversions > 0 >>>> AND CampaignId=121071908 >>>> DURING 20130811,20130811 >>>> >>>> Result: >>>> 0,1 >>>> >>>> You have my permission to query the account to investigate. >>>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >>> Also find us on our blog and discussion group: >>> http://googleadsdeveloper.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 >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> topic/adwords-api/_EHqNV8b6lA/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- > -- > =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ > 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. > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/adwords-api/_EHqNV8b6lA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
