Vincent, So far I've done as you said and tested regions together and separately several times and have no idea how the service is combining the keyword data by region. Average cpc and competition are doing something entirely different than an average, its not weighted by population so I assume it must be taking something else into account. The values aren't TOO far off from an average but enough that I wouldn't feel comfortable using it in my application. I'll poke around in the AdWords Community Forum as you've said.
On Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 10:25:28 PM UTC-8, Vincent Racaza (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi Will, > > You are correct, the TargetingIdeaService > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201710/TargetingIdeaService> > only > accepts up to 10 locations to be targeted for keyword requests as > LocationSearchParameter > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201710/TargetingIdeaService.LocationSearchParameter>. > > In regards to the workaround of combining the data (e.g. average CPC, > competition, etc.) from the different requests for different locations, it > seems that it would be difficult as the data being returned is based on the > specific parameters on your request. For example, you cannot just combine > or add the average CPC from multiple requests as we are not 100% sure how > the backend computes this per request. > > In the AdWords UI's Keyword Planner, it accepts more than 10 locations, > however, when clicking the "Get ideas" button, it shows you this warning > message "These statistics are for the first 10 locations you selected. But > don't worry, you'll get forecasts for all of the locations.". With this, > there > appears to be no available workaround for your requirement since both the > AdWords UI and API behaves the same way. > > As a recommendation, you can start with fewer locations first. For > example, the first request will target 2 locations, the second request will > target another 2 different locations, and the third request will target all > the 4 locations. By the result of each request, you can compare and check > if you can combine the results (per keyword idea) of first and second > requests and if their combination is equal to the result of the third > request. If the result combination of first and second requests is indeed > equal to the third request, then most probably, the formula (e.g. you can > check if you just need to do an addition, or you need to get their average > per data) that you are using is correct. You can then use that formula in > the combination of your multiple requests for more than 10 locations. > > Furthermore, since AdWords API and UI returns the same result and behaves > the same way, then this is more on the AdWords product level concern. You > can post this concern in the AdWords Community Forum > <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Google-AdWords/ct-p/Google_AdWords#> > for > further assistance on how to combine (e.g. formula) results from different > requests with different locations. > > Thanks, > Vincent > AdWords API Team > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/0ab44041-ce8c-4bf6-9bda-553d6f35e95d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
