Re: What do I do if someone else is using ad adwords account and is using my business name in the adwords ad (which is illegal) and is creating confusion to my customers in my geograpgical area

Hi Joshua, On this forum, we deal with issues related to AdWords API. I would suggest that you post your query in the AdWords Community and they will be able to help you out. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

Re: Change RLSA Bid Modifier via API

Hi Michael, You can use the AdGroupCriterionService to add a BiddableAdGroupCriterion

Re: How to find the AdWords API Center

Hi, You have logged in to the AdWords account. You need to log in to the production manager account (MCC) and apply for the developer token . Please

Re: Best way to get Conversion data and clicks data from campaign performance report

Hi Raghu, You are right. The ConversionTypeName field in Campaign Performance Report is not compatible with Click or Impressions. Even in the UI, if you segment based on

Re: get suggested languages via adwords API

Hi Nitzan, As per my understanding, there isn't any service in the AdWords API which provides language suggestions based on the locations you are targeting. Please note that not all functionalities of the AdWords UI are available in the AdWords API. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- --

Re: Using OAuth Link Adwords Accounts with MCC Account

Hi, Yes, it is possible to link AdWords manager and client accounts using AdWords API. This guide describes how to use ManagedCustomerService

Re: Negative values in my TargetingIdeaService results

Hi, Could you provide the SOAP XML request and response logs for this request along with your clientCustomerId? You can find instructions to enable logging for the PHP client library here . Please use *Reply privately to

Re: How to find keyword impression in Estimating Traffic section

Hi Samaresh, You can get the estimated impressions per day in the StatsEstimate of the response from the TrafficEstimatorService. The EstimateKeywordTraffic

Re: BatchJobProcessingError.DEADLINE_EXCEEDED after Upgraded to Batch Job Service

Hi, Could you provide the SOAP XML request and response logs when you encountered this error? Could you try the request with fewer Batch Jobs? Please use *Reply privately to author* when responding. Please see this article

Re: Problem to push ad with trademark sign

Hi Alex, The AWAITING_FILE status of a BatchJob means that the service is still expecting more operations to be uploaded. You can indicate that this is the last request by setting the *Content-Range *HTTP

Re: URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT Shows Zero Clicks for YouTube Campaigns

Hi Mark, Could you provide the report definitions used to pull the three reports along with your clientCustomerId? Please use *Reply privately to author* while responding. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog

Re: URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT Shows Zero Clicks for YouTube Campaigns

Hi Mark, URL Performance Report provides statistics for placements on a more granular level. Since this is a Video Campaign, you won't find placement stats associated with it. That is why you see zero clicks for YouTube Campaigns in the URL Performance Report. To verify if you API report is

Re: PHP include problems

Hi, If the library was successfully installed using Composer, the PHP examples will be available in your_working_directory/vendor/googleads/googleads-php-lib/examples/AdWords/. You can start constructing your project in this working directory. You would need to include the utility src files

Re: Conflicting Keywords

Hi Kim, The process defined here is the best way to get conflicting keywords for an account. A complete code

Re: Api very slow

Hi, Can you profile the program execution using one of the profiling tools to identify which area is taking more time? It might be an issue with the resources available at runtime. Thanks, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on

Re: Create display campaign with cpm bidding

Hi Cory, Could you provide the SOAP request and response log for the above API request along with sample Campaign Ids/names which have a ManualCpm bidding strategy? Please use *Reply privately to author* when responding. Thanks, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- --

Re: URL_PERFORMANCE_REPORT Shows Zero Clicks for YouTube Campaigns

Hi Mark, I checked in the AdWords UI for the URL performance of the given campaign. There is no data for this campaign in this report. Could you please check that the campaign you are referring to has data in the URL Performance Report downloaded from the AdWords API? Could you provide the

Re: error concerning 24 hours delay after posting

Hi Karl, You could consider setting up conversion tracking on your website. If this is not an option, you *have *to wait the required amount of time for the information to propagate in the system when you import

Re: BatchJobService mutateResponse says it uses v201603 but the response seems to be v201509

Hi Carl-Johan, The engineering team is still investigating the issue. We don't have an update at the moment. You could try to generate the code using this schema for now as an alternative to BatchJobOps.xsd. Let me know

Re: Can not set trackingUrlTemplate for Biddable AdGroupCriterion

Hi, The update_keyword Python example demonstrates how to update the attributes of a keyword. You can use that as a reference to make changes to an AdGroupCriterion. You

Re: Failed to get campaigns. Exception says "Exception of type 'Google.Api.Ads.AdWords.Lib.AdWordsCredentialsExpiredException' was thrown." AdWords API OAuth demo

Hi Abdurrahman, Could you provide the SOAP request and response logs when this exception occurred, so I can have a look at the detailed error message? Please use *Reply privately to author* when responding. Regards Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- --

Re: v201603 CampaignChangeData getAddedAdExtensions and getRemovedAdExtensions

Hi, The addedAdExtensions and deletedAdExtensions fields were removed from CampaignChangeData in the API version v201603 as documented in the release notes . Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- --

Re: v201603 CampaignChangeData getAddedAdExtensions and getRemovedAdExtensions

Hi, The legacy ad extensions and CampaignAdExtensionService were deprecated in AdWords API Version v201502 . You should use Feed service

Re: Can not set trackingUrlTemplate for Biddable AdGroupCriterion

Hi, Can you confirm that you are using the AdGroupCriterionService? This is likely the case where the incorrect service is being used. Could you provide the output logs when you try to update the criterion? You can find the instruction to enable logging for the python client library here

Re: Api very slow

Hi, Since this is not specific to the AdWords API, I'm afraid its not in my area of expertise. Adding localhost(127.0.0.1) as the first line in your /etc/resolv.conf will allow for caching of DNS queries which would be helpful if there are connection issues. You can find more information here

Re: How to add AccountLabels to ManagedCustomers?

Hi Markus, The "accountLabels " field in ManagedCustomer is a read-only field and will be ignored when sent to the API. To assign labels to a managed customer, you *have* to

Re: Offline Conversions with Same gclid and different ConversionType

Hi Itay, If you try to upload the same conversion with the same combination of GCLID, conversionName, date and time, AdWords will ignore it. If you want to upload multiple conversions of the same type for the same click, AdWords will record them as long as they have different times, even if

Re: How to get Adwords Customer ID of currently signed in user

Hi, Unfortunately, it is not possible to get the AdWords customer ID using just the Google account credentials. You have to login to the AdWords console to find out the Customer Id associated with your Google account. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

Re: Adwords parameters

Hi Shai, Could you provide the report definition you use to pull the Click Performance Report along with your clientCustomerId? Could you also provide sample clicks that you are getting that aren't included in the Click Performance Report? Please use *Reply privately to author *when

Re: Quisiera generar un reporte en una pagina php de mis campañas a través de la Api Adwords / I would like to generate a report on a php page of my campaigns through Adwords Api

Hi, The DownloadCriteriaReport PHP example demonstrates how to download a Criteria Performance Report

Re: contentBidTypeCriterionGroup doesn't mutate

Hi, I see that you found the error in the code and resolved it. Please let us know if you have any other questions. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/

Re: List of possible criteria to use in creating new audience

Hi Christine, You can create audiences using the Remarketing options available in the AdWords API. The examples provided here

Re: List of possible criteria to use in creating new audience

Hi Christine, To have RLSA campaigns, you will need to create Remarketing lists. You can find the types of user lists here . I hope this is what you are looking for. Regards, Shwetha,

Re: CampaignServiceInterface get method is broken upgrading Java SDK jar from v2.12.0 to 2.13.0

Hi, The way to get the AdWords API services using the Java client library is to first construct an AdWordsSession using the OAuth2 credentials and then instantiate the desired service class using the AdWordsServices utility as demonstrated in this basic usage example

Re: RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED : Maximum number of objects in google ad words (Location targets and ad extensions)

Hi Karan, The reason you are encountering the RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED error could be because of the limit of 150,000 results per request . To avoid this you need to use predicates

Re: TargetingIdeaService not returning SearchParameters in results

Hi Calin, To include a particular keyword in the TargetingIdeaService response, you need to include that keyword in the IdeaTextFilterSearchParameter . If you are want

Re: How get Invalid activity?

Hi, If a click has been found to be invalid, it is automatically filtered from reports and payments so that you're not charged for these clicks. You can find more information about invalid clicks and traffic here . I hope this helps.

Re: SoapFault [AuthenticationError.NOT_ADS_USER @ ; trigger:'']

Hi, The email account used to generate the credentials should be associated with an AdWords account. Could you provide the clientCustomerId and the email account associated with credentials being used? Please use *Reply privately to author* when responding. Thanks, Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

Re: Get custom data in response when calling mutate()

Hi David, To clarify, you want to be able to use your custom ID for AdGroupId(Google AdWords) so that you can use this field to query for the AdGroup in your Web app? I'm afraid the ID of the AdGroup cannot be set. It is a read-only field. You could consider using AdGroupLabels

Re: How to get campaigns targeted location group using api

Hi Anil, Once you have retrieved the complete LocationGroup object using the CampaignCriterionService

Re: Get custom data in response when calling mutate()

Hi David, All of the operations will be returned in the response in the same order as you passed them to the server. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/

Re: Exemption request via BatchJob?

Hi Christian, Since the BatchJob might contain other operations which could have succeeded, reusing the temporary IDs will result in an ENTITY_NOT_FOUND error. The operations which did succeed will have a valid

Re: Retrieve data from display network planner & budget ideas by API

Hi Alexey, The AdWords API does not have services equivalent to the Display Planner or recommended Campaign budgets at the moment. However, it does offer the following services equivalent to the Keyword Planner: - TargetingIdeaService

Re: Salesforce Apex and Google AdWords API SOAP Request

Hi Sean, This doesn't look like it's related to AdWords API. If there are issues while making requests to the API, I could help you with that. But I'm afraid queries related to Salesforce or Apex are not in our area of expertise. I would suggest that you post your query in the Salesforce forum

Re: Sent products and active products in shopping campaigns

Hi Aaron, Not all functionalities available in the AdWords UI will have equivalent API services. This guide describes how UI reports map to API reports. Unfortunately, the data available in the Product Groups tab

Re: AuthorizationError.USER_PERMISSION_DENIED

Hi, The USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error occurs when there is no link between the manager account authenticated in the request and the client account specified in the request header. You

Re: Link client to Mcc Account

Hi, The NOT_AUTHORIZED error indicates that the account whose OAuth credentials are used to make this request is not authorized to perform this

Re: Pause Campaign Criterion

Hi Nitzan, Unfortunately, CampaignCriterion does not have a PAUSED state. You would need to use a SET operation to remove a CampaignCriterion . You could consider using Campaign Drafts and Trials

Re: Unable to setup FeedMapping for FINAL_URL

Hi Gazal, Could you provide the SOAP request and response for this request along with your clientCustomerId, so I can further investigate? Did you set the correct PlaceholderType

Re: SoapFault [AuthenticationError.NOT_ADS_USER @ ; trigger:'']

Hi, The NOT_ADS_USER error occurs when the login used to generate the client credentials is not associated with an AdWords account. Could you check if you have provided the correct client

Re: Mutate ad group mobile bid adjustment in a single request

Hi, If you are using AdGroupBidModifierService to get the list of BidModifiers, the source of the modifier will be available in the BidModifierSource . This field

Re: Access FeedItems by a Key Attribute Value

Hi Gazal, I'm afraid the feed item attribute values are not filterable. Key attributes in a feed are used to maintain unique feed items based on your definition of a key. For example, you

Re: Adding labels on keywords

Hi, To add labels to your keywords, you would need to create AdGroupCriterionLabel which contains: - labelId - ID of the label. - adGroupId - ID of the AdGroup containing

Re: How get Invalid activity?

Hi Kostya, I'm afraid the AdWords API cannot be used to get billing related information. You would need to login to the AdWords account to get all billing information. If you are looking to get invalid click data, you could use the Campaign Performance Report

Re: UAC (Universal App Campaign) Campaigns are Not Receiving With Adwords API V201605 - CampaignService

Hi, Universal App Campaigns are only supported in Campaign Performance Report in the AdWords API. These rows will have AdvertisingChannelType

Re: Retrieve account creation date

Hi, For the first question, I'm afraid that's the only workaround I could think of using the API. For the second one, you can segment your reports by Date

Re: Accounts are not linking

Hi Asma, This guide provides more details on linking accounts using the AdWords API. Could you provide your MCC ID and/or the customerID along with the email account used to create the OAuth2

Re: cant get refreshtoken in java

Hi, There seem to be some errors in your pom.xml and Maven project set up. Could you cross check if the client library is configured correctly? Instructions for setting up the client library are provided here . Regards,

Re: How get Invalid activity?

Hi, You can find these adjustments in the billing section of your AdWords account. Once you login to your account, click on the gear icon on the top right corner and select *Billing* from the drop down menu and select *Transaction history* from the panel on the left hand side. On this page

Re: Retrieve account creation date

Hi Tejas, I'm afraid there is no field to provide the date on which the account was created. You could use the Account Performance Report as suggested in the referred post. Be sure to query the report

Re: Creating a Text Ad with SOAPUI

Hi, To create a Text ad, you need to use xsi:type to specify the AdType as this field is ignored on input. A sample mutate element to add a TextAd looks like this:

Re: Retrieve account creation date

Hi Tejas, The StartDate of a Campaign is not immutable. This isn't the actual creation date of the campaign. On Campaign creation, it *defaults* to the current date, but it can also be modified which can be useful if you want the campaign to start at a later date of your choosing. If you

Re: Suddenly getting AuthorizationError.USER_PERMISSION_DENIED

Hi James, The USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error occurs when there is no link between the manager account authorized in the request and the client account specified in the request headers.

Re: Retrieve account creation date

Hi Tejas, Yes, if you add the field "Date " in the report query, the report data will be segmented by day within the given DateRange. The field "HourOfDay

Re: NoClassDefFoundError

Hi Bert, Could you check if you have provided all the essential dependencies in the (runtime) classpath? Could you also provide the complete stack trace so I can further investigate? Instructions for setting up the AdWords API Java Client library are available here

Re: Retrieve account creation date

Hi Tejas, You could query for StartDate in the Campaign Performance Report . When you add a

Re: Creating a Text Ad with SOAPUI

Hi, The error you are getting could be because of incorrect namespace specifications. Could you try the request provided below and let me know if you are able to create TextAds successfully? http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;

Re: Developer token approval

Hi, Please fill out this form to get in touch with the AdWords API Compliance team. Once you submit that form, the compliance team will respond with an answer. If you DID fill out this form, let me know your AdWords manager account (MCC)

Re: How to feature ebay product ad in google sponsored ad section

Hi Simranjit, This forum is related to the AdWords API. I would suggest that you reach out to the Google Merchant Center Community . Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team -- --

Re: 5 Most Specific Location, with the higher number of clicks

HI, Could you run the Geo Performance Report using the predicate "IsTargetingLocation IN [true,false]"? By default, this report only includes rows where "IsTargetingLocation = true". If the data from the API doesn't match the result shown in the MCC, then please provide me *privately* the

Re: Different output for the same query!

Hi Mehdi, RAdwords is a third party tool. We don't provide support for RAdwords. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/

Re: An error has occurred: [AuthenticationError.CLIENT_CUSTOMER_ID_IS_REQUIRED @ ; trigger:'']

Hi, You are getting this error because the ClientCustomerId is not set. You can set clientCustomerId in your auth.ini file, or you can set this at the runtime

Re: customerService.mutate missing clientCustomerId

Hi, Could you provide the SOAP request and response logs where this error occurred? Please click *Reply privately to author* when responding. Thanks, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+:

Re: Adword API operations

Hi, Yes, the limit of 10,000 operations per day applies to test access too. You can find more information on access levels here . This rate sheet gives more detail on how

Re: Retrieving data from API in UTC

Hi, AdWords API reports follow the timezone of the account against which it is being run and does not support customization. If the account which is used to generate the reports is in EST timezone, then the report segmentation by date will be based on this timezone. I hope this helps.

Re: 5 Most Specific Location, with the higher number of clicks

Hello, You can query for MostSpecificCriteriaId, Clicks and Impressions from Geo Performance Report with the predicate "IsTargetingLocation IN [true, false]". The MostSpecificCriteriaId gives the most

Re: How can I grant read-only access to the third-party application

Hi, If you link your AdWords account to your friend's Manager account, he'll have both read and write access to the account. I would suggest that you grant read only access by following these instructions . If both of you are in the

Re: SelectorError.INVALID_PREDICATE_OPERATOR

Hi Albert, While using the "in" operator, you would need to provide complete campaign names in the search string. It doesn't support partial matching of sub-strings. If you are trying to get a list of campaigns, I would recommend using labels to identify related campaigns and searching for

Re: SelectorError.INVALID_PREDICATE_OPERATOR

Hi Albert, I would suggest that you use the operator "in" instead of "containsAny". Let us know if the issue is not resolved. Regards, Shwetha AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+:

Re: accountLimitType=IMPLICITLY_SHARED_BUDGETS_PER_ACCOUNT - Receiving this error even for brand new accounts

Hi Matt, Could you provide me *privately* the clientCustomerId and SOAP XML request and response logs? Just click *Reply privately to author* in the forum when responding. You could remove the unused budgets. You can use BudgetService

Re: What is the URL structure of the Campaign/AdGroup management console?

Hi Richard, The "u" and "c" parameters in the URL are to identify your account and session, which will be generated randomly every time you login. Creating links using CampaignId and AdGroupId will not work on AdWords UI as the user will need to go through an authentication process. If you

Re: Its adwords arbitrage to adsense landings like gosur.com does safe?

Hi Eugenio, The AdWords API team will not be able to answer these type of questions. You may find more help if you post your questions in this forum . Regards, Shwetha AdWords API Team. -- --

Re: cannot download the report data and the message "MISSING_PARAMETER" appears

Hi, For an XML report definition, the POST request body must contain a parameter named "__rdxml" whose value is your XML report definition. Your HTTP POST request should look something like this: HTTP HEADER: Authorization:Bearer xx clientCustomerId:xxx-xxx-

Re: cannot download the report data and the message "MISSING_PARAMETER" appears

Hi, To clarify, the value of the parameter "__rdxml" is your complete report definition. I apologize if my previous email was not clear. Here , you'll find a complete example of a HTTP POST request showing the

Re: Application Type no longer appears?

Hi, To generate credentials for Installed Application Type, just select "Other" for Application Type and continue with creating the OAuth 2.0 credentials. Regards, Shwetha AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+:

Re: Migrating to v201601

Hi Priya, Please make changes to your application based on the migration guide (Migration to v201601 ). If your application (with changes suggested in the migration guide) is working fine in test environment then it will

Re: API (or report) access without Adwords Manager Account

Hi Maurice, If you want to use the AdWords API to pull reports then you would need a Manager Account as the developer token which is used to access the API is associated with a Manager Account. However, if you want to pull reports via the UI, then you don't need a MCC account. You can also

Re: Different output for the same query!

HI Mehdi, Could you provide me *privately* the clientCustomerIds for ACCOUNT_PERFORMANCE_REPORT and report request definition? Just click *Reply privately to author* in the forum when responding. Thanks, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also

Re: Where can I define header information in current version of php client lib

Hi, The client library used in the videos might be outdated now. The AdWords API Sandbox is now deprecated and was sunset on Dec 15, 2012. We now have test accounts on the production system in place of the AdWords API Sandbox,

Re: Report Download RateExceededError.RATE_EXCEEDED

Hi Jake, Could you provide me privately the clientCustomerId and SOAP XML request and response logs so I can take a look at what's going wrong? Just click Reply privately to author in the forum when responding. Thanks, Shwetha AdWords API Team. -- --

Re: Check frequency of account logins?

Hi Afzalul, Unfortunately there is no way to check frequency of logins. You can get "last login time" when you download the User report in the *Account Access* page from your manager account. I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any issues while using the AdWords API. Regards,

Re: Best way to get all the account ids

Hi, You can use ManagedCustomerService to get account information. The GetAccountHierarchy

Re: How to create shopping campaign in Adwords TEST account

Hi Radomir, You would need to link your AdWords account to your Merchant Center Account. The link request must be sent from Merchant Center. Instructions for linking AdWords and Merchant Center can be found here . Once you have linked

Re: Missing User Lists in Criteria Report

Hi Yoni, Could you provide the report definition used as well as your client Customer ID so I can further look into it? Please use *Reply privately to author* when responding. Thanks, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog

Re: Campaigns with status "limited by budget" not returned in result

Hi Tiana, Could you provide the clientCustomerId along with the Campaign Ids which are missing in the report, so I can further look into it? Please use *Reply privately to author* when responding. Thanks, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also

Re: Is there a limit on the number of records in a page on the Adwords SOAP API?

Hi Karan, The number of results in a page for general API calls is limited to 10,000 per page. You can use paging to get all the results that match the selector provided. Please have a look at

Re: Campaigns with status "limited by budget" not returned in result

Hi Tiana, Could you set the *includeZeroImpressions* to *true* in the HTTP header of the report request and see if the issue is resolved? By default, only campaigns that have non-zero impressions

Re: Ho to change display name of KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT

Hi Raviprakash, The AdWords API doesn't have any methods to change the display text of the column names for reports. I would suggest that you change the column names yourself after downloading the report using some sort of parsing function. Regards, Shwetha, AdWords API Team. -- --

Re: Significance of StatsEstimate returned by TrafficEstimatorService for New Accounts

Hi Kiran, Yes, unfortunately, AdGroup Ideas is not supported in the API. You can still use the TargetingIdeaService to get search volume data and trends for a set of keywords and

Re: Ad Words Dashboard failing at ReportUtils::DownloadReportWithAwql

Hi Jesse, Have you correctly imported the 'ReportUtils' class into your program? Please have a look at the DownloadCriteriaReport PHP example which demonstrates how to

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >