I've been storing gclids for legitimate traffic in my database when customers come to my website. Then, I use the v11 REST API for Google Offline Conversions to post the whole sales cycle from download of our product, purchase, and upsell.
Occasionally when sending traffic, I keep getting EVENT_NOT_FOUND and sometimes CLICK_CONVERSION_ALREADY_EXISTS. However, these do not make sense to me because when I search my table for these entries, I only see one instance by event date, conversionAction (like download, purchase, and upsell), and gclid. These seem to occur around 30% of the time. Now, granted, I remove data out of my database tables that are older than 90 days. However, I wouldn't think Google would track a gclid longer than 90 days, anyway. Really, the only events I should be getting back from this API should be: SUCCESS - the conversion was posted and no retries should be done EXPIRED_EVENT - the data may be older than 90 days and so this event is effectively dead and no retries should be done TOO_RECENT_EVENT - schedule it for retry in the next 30 minutes LATER_THAN_MAXIMUM_DATE - schedule it for retry in the next 30 minutes because 6 hours haven't passed yet on it Indeed, the bulk of my responses have been the above events and my code is handling these properly. It's just that the EVENT_NOT_FOUND and CLICK_CONVERSION_ALREADY_EXISTS are baffling and I cannot determine why they are occurring. And in some cases (but not all) where CLICK_CONVERSION_ALREADY_EXISTS has been filed, I look in my last_status column in my database and don't appear to have a value there (NULL) because this was the first time my code posted this. Is this a bug with Google Ads? -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads 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 "Google Ads API and AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/57644af8-ce2d-4a4f-bc63-ccb1210db090n%40googlegroups.com.
