Re: Is it possible to download a list of clicks using the API?
Hmm having looked over that, it looks like we have that sort of system already in place. It's really individual clicks that we need to match up which is why ideally we need a list of clicks that Google say we have had so to reconcile that with our list of visits. It seems that the gclid is used in Analytics for just that purpose. Unless I've missed something in the Value Track documentation you linked to, there doesn't seem to be a way of passing a unique identifier for each individual click that we can later reconcile to ensure our recorded number of clicks match Google's number of clicks exactly so we can display the correct spend for a day overall. The gclid seems the nearest thing to what we need, the missing link being the gclid being available in the click performance report in the previous reply... On Nov 24, 2012 10:27 PM, Ewan Heming ewan.heming2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi James, The GCLID parameter is only meant for internal use within Google Analytics; if you want to perform your own tracking, you need to use the Value Trackhttp://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=2375447 URL parameters. You should be able to add parameters to the destination URL's of your ads that will match up with values in the click performance report. Regards, Ewan -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups AdWords API Forum group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups AdWords API Forum group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
Re: Is it possible to download a list of clicks using the API?
Thank you very much for your reply Zweitze, this does help a bit but it does not quite solve our problem (you'd think it would though!) - here's why: I've finally managed to get around to trying out this report and I can see it has ClickId, but this does not appear to match up to the gclid parameter. I was banking on storing the gclid passed along in the URL and later matching it up when we download the list of clicks from Google later. Additionally I have run it on one of our campaigns and the number of rows (i.e. clicks) returned in the click performance report has 40 *more* clicks than is shown for the account in the Adwords web interface. I understand of course that we may have more visits than there were clicks due to spidered Google results etc., but reconciling them means we can instantly mark them as no spend because we'll know Google didn't actually charge us (because that click wasn't actually from Google at all), but I don't understand why even Google's own record of clicks is different. Does anyone have any other suggestions of how we might reconcile/match the clicks reported on in Adwords to our internal record of each visit? Or maybe I'm missing something? Thanks James On Wednesday, 14 November 2012 13:10:35 UTC, Zweitze wrote: The click performance reporthttps://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports?hl=nl#clickcontains information about individual clicks by date, group, ad, criterion etc. but not time. It also has a mysterious field ClickId which may or may not be linked to gclid in the URL. Hope this helps. On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:59:19 AM UTC+1, James Titcumb wrote: Currently we download a report which summarises each keyword's performance by day. However, on our tracking system we record each individual visit. We want to resolve the small discrepancy between our number of clicks recorded in our database and Google's number of clicks. Is there a way to download a list of all the clicks associated to each keyword/adtext/etc. so that we can basically match up Google's list of clicks to our own list of clicks (technically visits, I know, but we prefer to use the click metric). I've noticed there is an auto-tagging feature which appears to pass a unique parameter (the gclid=xxx) field, I'm thinking it might be possible to match most of the clicks using that. If what I'm trying to achieve is not possible, is there another way we can achieve a similar result? Thanks, James -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups AdWords API Forum group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
Is it possible to download a list of clicks using the API?
Currently we download a report which summarises each keyword's performance by day. However, on our tracking system we record each individual visit. We want to resolve the small discrepancy between our number of clicks recorded in our database and Google's number of clicks. Is there a way to download a list of all the clicks associated to each keyword/adtext/etc. so that we can basically match up Google's list of clicks to our own list of clicks (technically visits, I know, but we prefer to use the click metric). I've noticed there is an auto-tagging feature which appears to pass a unique parameter (the gclid=xxx) field, I'm thinking it might be possible to match most of the clicks using that. If what I'm trying to achieve is not possible, is there another way we can achieve a similar result? Thanks, James -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups AdWords API Forum group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
