Hi, It appears you're correct; ads are indeed immutable. I'm sorry for the misinformation. I'm going to try to improve the documentation in the WSDL so that I (and hopefully others) don't make the same mistake again.
Regards, Mike, AdWords API Advisor On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 7:34:01 AM UTC-4, Zweitze wrote: > > Is this behavior new? > Previously (for >8 years) you could only update the ad status, and this is > also mentioned in the docs. > > To achieve the behavior, you should delete the ad, and create a similar ad > with the new destination URL. Note that you loose the statistics of the > original ad - so if we can now update other attributes of ads I'd like to > know! > > > Op maandag 14 april 2014 18:47:39 UTC+2 schreef Michael Cloonan (AdWords > API Team): >> >> Hi Dmitri, >> >> Yes, you can modify the URL target of ads programmatically. Take a look >> at >> TextAd<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201402/AdGroupAdService.TextAd>in >> our documentation. You can modify these using a SET operation setting >> the specific ad you want in the >> AdGroupAdService<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201402/AdGroupAdService> >> . >> >> Regards, >> Mike, AdWords API Advisor >> >> On Monday, April 14, 2014 2:04:43 AM UTC-4, Dmitri Pisarenko wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Imagine, I have a shop at http://myshop.com. >>> >>> Every item has its own page: >>> >>> 1) http://myshop.com/product-1 >>> 2) http://myshop.com/product-2 >>> >>> I have a Google AdWords ad with display URL http://myshop.com/ . >>> >>> AFAIK, the real URL can be any URL on the domain myshop.com, which >>> means that I can direct the user to >>> >>> 1) http://myshop.com/ , >>> 2) http://myshop.com/product-1 and >>> 3) http://myshop.com/product-2 . >>> >>> I want to run an experiment and find out, whether people buy more when >>> after the click they see all products ( http://myshop.com/ ) or one >>> particular product (e. g. http://myshop.com/product-1 ). >>> >>> Therefore, I want to create a program, which >>> >>> 1) Has a hard-coded list of product URLs ( http://myshop.com/product-1, >>> http://myshop.com/product-2 ). >>> >>> 2) At the beginning, the target URL of the ad is >>> http://myshop.com/product-1 . >>> >>> 3) The program looks in regular intervals, which products are sold. >>> >>> 4) When it notices that http://myshop.com/product-1 has been sold, it >>> modifies the ad so that now it points to http://myshop.com/product-2 . >>> >>> Question: Is it possible with Google AdWords API to change the target >>> URL of an existing ad? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Dmitri >>> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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.
