Actually the customer wants to see the cost dashboards at keywords level and break down the cost by keywords. The only way to get to keywords level is to use a report that has the keyword text level detail. Otherwise we get accurate cost from Account Performance Report.
Regards Syed On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Ray Tsang (AdWords API Team) < [email protected]> wrote: > Arif, > > The keyword performance report > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports#keywords> > is a single attribution report while the display keyword performance > report > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports#display-keyword> > is multiple attribution. Please first read up on reporting concepts and the > differences between single vs multiple attribution > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/reporting-concepts#multiple> > . > > Totaling this is probably not the best approach. What is the use case > that you are trying to solve? Is the account performance report not > accurate? > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > On Monday, July 7, 2014 2:43:46 PM UTC-4, Syed Arif Ullah Shah wrote: >> >> Hi Ray, >> >> Many Thanks for the suggestion and guidance. The Display Keyword >> Performance Report is showing a bit more cost than what we have in our >> adwords account while the Keyword Performance Report is showing a bit less >> than the actual one. How can I relate these two so that we only get the >> actual cost metric that matches the value of Account Performance Report >> >> Thanks >> Syed >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Ray Tsang (AdWords API Team) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Syed, >>> >>> The keywords performance report may be condensing the display keywords >>> into a single ID - and may only have information for search keywords. To >>> construct a complete picture, you may also need to look into the Display >>> keyword performance report. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ray >>> >>> >>> On Monday, July 7, 2014 7:18:45 AM UTC-4, Syed Arif Ullah Shah wrote: >>>> >>>> I am using google adwords api and awql to create some reports in >>>> Qlikview. I wanted to show some reports based on cost at keyword text >>>> level. What I have found is that for some days the cost value differ If I >>>> use the Account performance report and keywords performance report. >>>> >>>> Infact the Account_Performance_Report shows the accurate cost metric >>>> while the Keyword_Performance_Report shows less cost than the actual for >>>> some days >>>> >>>> I could use the Account performance report but the problem is that I >>>> want to show the report at keywods text level and I could get this only >>>> from keywords performance report >>>> >>>> Can someone please guide me how to get the accurate cost value from >>>> keywords_performance_report >>>> >>>> Thank You >>>> >>>> Arif >>>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >>> 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/bROdzK6H1V8/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 a topic in the > Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/adwords-api/bROdzK6H1V8/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. 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