Sam, It's very likely that these missing GCLIDs are in fact included in the invalid clicks. My understanding is that converted GCLIDs may not necessarily mean that the clicks were counted as valid clicks in the system. For more information about invalid clicks, please see if these links are helpful:
- Topic on Invalid Clicks <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/42995?hl=en> - Troubleshooting invalid clicks <https://support.google.com/adwords/troubleshooter/2557048?hl=en> Thanks! Ray On Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:13:49 PM UTC-4, Ray Tsang (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi guys, > > In some of the reports > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports>, there > are 2 columns to check: InvalidClicks and InvalidClickRate. > Some of these missing clicks may be marked as invalid - please see if the > numbers matches up closely w/ the clicks that you were not able to find in > the click performance report. > > Thanks! > > Ray > > On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 4:51:40 PM UTC-4, Ray Tsang (AdWords API Team) > wrote: >> >> Sam, >> >> I've received the information - which GCL ID are you referring to as >> gclid-A ? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Ray >> >> On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 10:10:59 AM UTC-4, Ray Tsang (AdWords API Team) >> wrote: >>> >>> Sam, >>> >>> Please send me a few detailed examples in private to look into. E.g., >>> request/response XML logs, the GCLID and the associated CID, etc. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ray >>> >>> On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 12:14:58 AM UTC-4, Sam Ingrassia wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks to everyone in advance - >>>> >>>> I am noticing pretty consistently a fair amount of inbound gclids that >>>> I am unable to match back via the CLICK_PERFORMANCE_REPORT. These gclid >>>> are >>>> from the last 90 days, so its definitely not a date range issue. To test >>>> this out I queried a handful of these gclids for the last 60 days - >>>> >>>> Can anyone provide any guidance on what might be happening here? >>>> >>>> Thanks again >>>> >>>> Sam >>>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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.
