Hi David, For Feeds, AdGroups, and Campaigns the duplicate name check is limited to ACTIVE/ENABLED and PAUSED objects. The comparison is case-sensitive for AdGroups and Campaigns, and case-insensitive for Feeds. For AdGroups, the uniqueness check is limited to other AdGroups in the same Campaign, so you can have two AdGroups with the same name as long as they are in different Campaigns. I'm not aware of any upcoming changes regarding uniqueness rules, but we'll post to our blog <http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/search/label/adwords_api> if anything comes up.
Regarding duplicate keywords, I don't know of any plans to disallow this in AdWords. Since that behavior is not API-specific, you may want to post this question to the (non-API) AdWords community, e.g., on the following thread on the topic. https://www.en.adwords-community.com/t5/Performance-Optimization/Upper-case-or-lower-case-in-keywords/td-p/328696 Cheers, Josh, AdWords API Team On Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:00:29 AM UTC-4, DavM wrote: > > Hi > > At the API Workshop there was a slide about unique names for Campaigns, > AdGroups and Feeds. I just want to clarify how unique. The slide in > question is here: http://www.slideshare.net/marcwan/01-api-update (slide > 20) > > Yesterday I discovered two adgroups in the same campaign having the same > name but with different capitalisation ie "My Campaign" vs "My campaign". > On reading further I have seen mention of the ability to have campaigns or > adgroups with exactly the same name and capitalisation but different states > ie "My Campaign" (deleted) and "My Campaign" (live or paused). > > So when you mention unique, do you mean case-sensitive/deleted state > unique? Also, in the case of adgroups - can they be identical, but in > different campaigns? Are there going to be further changes to make these > entities "more" unique ie by removing the case sensitivity or differing > state rules? > > Cheers > > David > > PS I've also noticed that you can have duplicate keywords with the same > match type in the same adgroup, but just with differing capitalisation > which seems unnecessary. Are there plans to change this? > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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.
