Re: An issue when compare AdGroup Performance report with Search query Performance report.

Hi Chenrui, You cannot aggregate the result of the Search Query Performance Report and compare it with the result with the AdGroup Performance Report. This is because the metrics from the AdGroup Performance Report are triggered from different criteria types. It does not mean that the metrics

Re: An issue when compare AdGroup Performance report with Search query Performance report.

Hi Chenrui, I believe that you really cannot compare the AdGroup Performance Report with the Search Query Performance Report

Re: An issue when compare AdGroup Performance report with Search query Performance report.

Hi Chenrui, Yes, the ads can be triggered in different ways, not just keywords or search terms. The triggering criteria of an ad can be one of these targeting types . So for example, if your ad under an ad group was

Re: Unauthorized_client error

Hi Stephen, The "401 Unauthorized" error means that the email address that you used in generating the OAuth2 credentials is not a valid user in your account, or it could be that there is something wrong in the generation of your OAuth2 credentials itself (e.g. your refresh token is not matched

Re: ad parameters not visible in ad

Hi Martin, Based on the scenarios that you discussed, the ad params should have been applied to your ads as there were no errors being generated on your end when you created the ad params. So I can further

Re: Budget Ordering and Campaign Payment

Hi, Yes, I can confirm that you can already follow the guide for the creation of budget order after you have done the three steps that you mentioned above. In regards to your concern on creating a

Re: I have two settings and I can't find the corresponding adword api service object. Here is my screenshot. Which of the two objects are used separately?

HI Jia, For the bidding option in your screenshot, you may set the biddingStrategyType as MANUAL_CPC, and then in your ManualCpcBiddingScheme

Re: Postal Codes with TargetingIdeaService

HI Andrew, I can confirm that the answer by my colleague in the forum post that you linked is still valid even until now. An INVALID_SEARCH_PARAMETERS

Re: How to use searchParameters filter by Location?

Hi Bruno, In setting the LocationSearchParameter , the required field of the Location

Re: Max Page size per GET Campaign request

Hi Rahat, For the maximum length of the values of predicates, there is no specified maximum length for this in our API documentation. For the maximum page size, the limit is 10,000 results per page as you can see in this guide

Re: location interest targeting

Hi Josh, For the advanced geotargeting settings such as the Location of Presence (LOP) and Area of Interest (AOI) as well as the normal geo targeting settings, the AdWords API only

Re: I have two settings and I can't find the corresponding adword api service object. Here is my screenshot. Which of the two objects are used separately?

Hi Jia, Both of your screenshots regarding conservative targeting as well as about marketing goals of display campaigns are not yet supported in the AdWords API. There is currently no way to set up or retrieve them via the AdWords API. Please follow our blog

Re: How do I use adword api to get a keyword list for an account, should I select that service object? I can't find it

Hi Jia, You can use the AdGroupCriterionService.get() and filter your query with CriteriaType

Re: field name for image in template ads

Hi Prashant, For the templateElements of a TemplateAd , if you are adding a template

Re: Getting statistics by day

Hi, You cannot upload statistics/metrics via the AdWords API, you can only retrieve them. Please see this guide on how to generate reports via the API. You can also check the Java reporting examples here

Re: How to get a campaign performance report for list of campaign IDs?

Hi Nellle, Yes, I can confirm that passing a variable to AWQL type of generating reports in Python would generate an error. If you really want to use a variable in storing your campaign IDs as filter, then I would recommend to use the selector type in generating reports

Re: Call-to-Action Help

Hi, Your concern is more specific to the AdWords UI/product level, rather than the AdWords API. You can post your concern in the AdWords Community Forum for further assistance as our team only supports AdWords API

Re: Default value for Criterion

Hi Gary, Upon further checking, I can confirm that my "Removed" status from the UI's test account is just equivalent to "Excluded from ad group" status. Actually, when I checked the age ranges again that I used previously, they are still in "Removed" status. When I manually changed one age

Re: Shopping Campaign: Bid individually on each product using PRODUCT_PARTITION_REPORT

Hi Victor, Can you confirm if what you meant is that your ad group has more than 200 ProductPartition criteria being targeted and yet only 200 rows are returned per ad group for this report type? If so, can you provide your clientCustomerId and report definition

Re: Budget Ordering and Campaign Payment

Hi, As you can see in this guide , particularly in the "Budget order" section, you need to create a budget order via the BudgetOrderService.mutate()

Re: There is no "APIs Center" tab in account settings

Hi, It seems that your issue is on finding the "AdWords API Center" in the AdWords UI so you can generate a developer token. For the test manager account, you cannot see the "AdWords API Center" link, therefore, you can't generate the developer token from it. You need to create a non-test

Re: Default value for Criterion

Hi Gary, Sure, I am sending you here all the details. So I tried again targeting the age ranges using BiddableAdGroupCriterion. Below is my sample SOAP request logs: https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201802;> ADD

Re: CampaignGroup ID scope of uniqueness

Hi Marcel, Based on your suggestion, I have created a feature request for this. However, this does not guarantee that the change will indeed be implemented. You can just follow our blog to receive any future updates like new

Re: CampaignGroup ID scope of uniqueness

Hi Marcel, The CampaignGroupId is only unique at the account level. For the Campaign Group Performance Report , even though the ExternalCustomerId field is not available in this report type, you

Re: Retrieving Conversion Action for a Call Extension

Hi Bradford, Could you provide your clientCustomerId, as well as the complete SOAP request and response logs so I could further investigate the issue on my end? You can send it to me via *Reply privately to author*. Thanks, Vincent AdWords API Team On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 4:39:57 AM

Re: Handling policy errors

Hi Tom, On the AdWords API perspective, it is possible to submit exemption requests for keywords and ads that trigger policy violations (response should include isExemptable = true). This guide

Re: Adding labels on keywords

Hi Sam, Can you confirm if you are using BatchJobService to add labels to your keywords? Please note that LabelOperation

Re: How can I get account status?

Hi Tom, Based on this blog post , ManagedCustomerService.get() should no longer return inactive accounts beginning Mid-May 2018. Can you provide your clientCustomerId and complete SOAP request and

Re: Adding labels on keywords

Hi, Before you can associate the label to your ad group via AdGroupCriterionService , you need to create a label

Re: How to set Keyword settting to Audience or Content when I add display keyword via adwords api?

Hi Ken, Setting keyword to audience or content is currently not possible via the AdWords API. You may also follow our blog for updates in AdWords API. Best regards, Vincent AdWords API Team On Monday, November 5, 2018 at

Re: LocationCriterionService, location name is not fully translated in RU locale, why?

Hi, My apologies as I can not comment on if they utilize different databases or back-end configurations. However, I have already created a feature request for this to further check this behavior. I will inform you once there are updates. Best regards, Vincent AdWords API Team On Thursday,

Re: Age Range Performance Report creating problem when i use where criteria for specific age range.

Hi Qaiser, To better assist you on this, could you provide your clientCustomerId and the complete report definition you used in generating the report? Kindly reply via the *Reply privately to

Re: ADGROUP_PERFORMANCE_REPORT returns 400 error

Hi Saidar, I am a colleague of Dannison and I would like to make a correction on our previous answer. I have tried replicating your issue on my end and found out that the error is caused by the select clause field name "Id" and the where clause field name "Status". Kindly replace "Id" with

Re: Age Range Performance Report returns Status = removed for every row. why this is removed?

Hi Qaiser, To better assist you on this, could you provide your clientCustomerId and the complete report definition you used in generating the report? Kindly reply via the *Reply privately to

Re: Mutate operation only works with campaigns in Ruby

Hi Javoeria, To better assist you on this, could you provide your clientCustomerId and the complete SOAP request and response logs (to enable logging in your client library, you may refer to the "Logging" section of this guide

Re: Can I set target setting to Observation when I add audience or topic to ad group via api?

Hi Ken, Setting the targeting setting of an audience to Observation is not yet supported in the API. You can only do this currently in the UI as you can see in this guide . Kindly follow our blog

Re: LocationCriterionService, location name is not fully translated in RU locale, why?

Hi, We were able to replicate the scenario. With this, I have created a request to update that particular location to its Russian equivalent. However, it is not a guarantee that this will be updated. You may follow our blog for

Re: Cancel account in api

Hi, Could you clarify if you are referring to cancellation of link invitation to client account? If so, then you can use the ManagedCustomerService . This is done by setting the link status to CANCELLED

Re: Both in-market categories csv file and ConstantDataService don’t contain inmarket audience 91100

Hi Hayley, I also checked the CSV file and tried checking the list being returned by the getUserInterestCriterion() method of the ConstantDataService

Re: Call Only Campaigns from API

Hi Johnny, Can you provide more context as to what you're trying to do so I can provide you with the right information you need? You may also provide your clientCustomerId and a UI screenshot that shows the data that you want to retrieve via the API. Kindly use the *Reply privately to author*

Re: Error trying to set bid adjustment for an AdSchedule

Hi David, To better assist you on this, kindly provide your clientCustomerId and the complete SOAP request and response logs. Please reply via the *Reply privately to author*. Best regards, Vincent AdWords API Team On Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 12:57:11 AM UTC+8, David Antunes wrote: > > Hi,

Re: Error: DEVELOPER_TOKEN_NOT_APPROVED error for Client account of Test manager account - Even with test a/c

Hi, Thank you for providing the details privately. Could you confirm as well if this was a newly generated test client account? Currently, our team is actively investigating an issue to the one you encountered. Allow me to update in this thread once information is available if a resolution has

Re: Shapefiles/geoJSON for location targets

Hi Mat, Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect. Could you confirm if you are looking for a list of geo targets that you can use in your location targeting? If so, then you can refer to this guide for the

Re: Shapefiles/geoJSON for location targets

Hi Mathew, Thanks for confirming. The blue outline that you can see in the AdWords UI when targeting a location is the whole location itself, for example, the whole Birmingham City. When targeting this in the API, there are no geo points for this as you are targeting a specific city. You just

Re: Is there any API or service for Display Planner tool?

Hi Qaiser, The Display Planner isn't available through the AdWords API. You may keep an eye out on our blog for any updates. Sincerely, Vincent AdWords API Team On

Re: Didn't get the custom audience list size updated after uploaded test(fake) data via API

Hi Chiwan, Yes, it should be updated (rounded to the two most significant digits) every time you upload more members since the list already has 1,000 members in it before. However, take note that it may take up to 6 to 12 hours for the list to be populated as you can see in the guide we

Re: How do you find Remarketing campaign Cost through report API

Hi, To better assist you on this, could you provide your clientCustomerId and the complete report definition you used? Kindly provide as well some specific campaign Ids where you are encountering the