Re: Do symbols in keyword.text override specified keyword.matchType?

2016-10-18 Thread 'Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)' via AdWords API Forum 
Hi,

When adding keywords via the AdWords API, you should set the Keyword.text 

 attribute 
to the keyword *without* any of the special match type symbols. Those 
symbols exist as a convenience for users of the AdWords user interface, but 
in the AdWords API you explicitly set the match type to avoid any ambiguity.

In your experiment, I would expect the keywords added via the API to have 
match type *BROAD* before you edited them in the user interface. You could 
confirm this by retrieving the keywords via AdGroupCriterionService 

 or 
by running a KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT 

 and 
including the *KeywordMatchType* field. I suspect that when you started 
editing the keywords in the user interface, the user interface symbol 
processing kicked in and switched the keywords to *EXACT*.

Cheers,
Josh, AdWords API Team

On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 1:35:06 PM UTC-4, Evan wrote:
>
>
> We've built an ads editor which contains a series of keyword inputs. 
> Upon submission, each input value is sanitized and will only include valid 
> characters. We then explicitly set *match type* via the API. 
>
>  
>
> I was wondering what would happen if the user input itself contained* match 
> type* symbols that conflicted with our explicit setting. 
>
>  
>
> For example, if I set,
>
>  
>
> keyword.text = "[baseball cap]"; 
> keyword.matchType = "BROAD";
>
>
> would this configuration *BROAD*ly match the text "[baseball cap]" (with 
> brackets) or would it *EXACT*ly match the text "baseball cap". Or would 
> it ignore the brackets and *BROAD*ly match "baseball cap".
>
>  
>
> In order to test what would happen, I created a campaign through the API 
> to experiment. My AdGroup contained each of the symbol variations of 
> "baseball cap". However, each keyword had its *match type* explicitly set 
> to *BROAD*. 
>
>
> When I opened the campaign in the Adwords GUI, I could confirm that the 
> text retained its inputted symbols and had been designated as *BROAD **match 
> type* (even if the symbols were denoting *PHRASE* or *EXACT*).  
>
>  
>
> For example, he UI had the following values for our input text "[baseball 
> cap]":
>
>  
>
> Text: [baseball cap]Match Type: BROAD
>
>  
>
>  However, when I gave focus to the text input, the UI's validator would 
> take over and update *match type* to *EXACT* (as long as the brackets 
> remained). 
>
>  
>
> Should we therefore be checking user input and using it to set match type 
> (according to the detected symbology) on our end? Or will any overrides be 
> handled by the API despite what I saw initially in the GUI?
>
>  
>
> Thanks!
>
>  
>

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Do symbols in keyword.text override specified keyword.matchType?

2016-10-18 Thread Evan 


We've built an ads editor which contains a series of keyword inputs. 
Upon submission, each input value is sanitized and will only include valid 
characters. We then explicitly set *match type* via the API. 

 

I was wondering what would happen if the user input itself contained* match 
type* symbols that conflicted with our explicit setting. 

 

For example, if I set,

 

keyword.text = "[baseball cap]"; 
keyword.matchType = "BROAD";


would this configuration *BROAD*ly match the text "[baseball cap]" (with 
brackets) or would it *EXACT*ly match the text "baseball cap". Or would it 
ignore the brackets and *BROAD*ly match "baseball cap".

 

In order to test what would happen, I created a campaign through the API 
to experiment. My AdGroup contained each of the symbol variations of 
"baseball cap". However, each keyword had its *match type* explicitly set 
to *BROAD*. 


When I opened the campaign in the Adwords GUI, I could confirm that the 
text retained its inputted symbols and had been designated as *BROAD **match 
type* (even if the symbols were denoting *PHRASE* or *EXACT*).  

 

For example, he UI had the following values for our input text "[baseball 
cap]":

 

Text: [baseball cap]Match Type: BROAD

 

 However, when I gave focus to the text input, the UI's validator would 
take over and update *match type* to *EXACT* (as long as the brackets 
remained). 

 

Should we therefore be checking user input and using it to set match type 
(according to the detected symbology) on our end? Or will any overrides be 
handled by the API despite what I saw initially in the GUI?

 

Thanks!

 

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