Re: Average Position 0.0

2018-03-19 Thread 'Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API Forum
Hi Marcel, >From the AdWords API perspective, API would return the value that is available in the UI. Since the valid values for Average Position is > 1, you could consider 0.0 as "Not applicable" or "--" at your end. If you see discrepancy between UI and API, please let me know the details

Re: Average Position 0.0

2018-03-19 Thread Marcel Zemp
ds in the report. This is not a proper handling the "not applicable" case. I also see Average Position = 0.0 for Search and Display campaigns. In those cases it always seems that the impressions = 0 but clicks > 0. So are these "just" data inconsistencies? Having clicks but no impressions a

Re: Average Position 0.0

2018-03-16 Thread 'Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API Forum
Hi Marcel, Thanks for posting in the advertiser community forum. With an answer from the product expert, we will be able to troubleshoot API side better, for this case. Incase you opt to come back to this thread, please reply with your client customer id and report definition. Please let me

Re: Average Position 0.0

2018-03-16 Thread Marcel Zemp
Hi all I see this in various types of campaigns: Search, Display and Shopping (Advertising Channel Type). But the main effect I see for Shopping campaigns. If it would not make sense for a certain type (e.g. Shopping) should the API then not rather give back a NULL or "not applicable" value,

Re: Average Position 0.0

2018-03-12 Thread 'Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API Forum
Hi all, The AveragePosition field gives the ad's position relative to other advertisers. The highest number is 1. Please refer this section

Re: Average Position 0.0

2018-03-12 Thread Zweitze
I've seen that behaviour on ads that have no real position. For instance, ads in the display network and in-stream video ads. And shopping ads too, because the user can apply his own sorting (like, on price, alphabetically on name, etc.etc.). On Monday, March 12, 2018 at 4:27:08 PM UTC+1,

Average Position 0.0

2018-03-12 Thread Marcel Zemp
What is the correct interpretation of having an average position of 0.0 even though Impressions > 0? Such records show up in an AD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT in my case. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: