Hello Xavier, This is a bug that the engineering team is going to have to resolve.
I'll update this thread with more information when I have it, but they are actively looking into the issue. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Mar 4, 2:14 pm, Xavier <javier1...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot Jeff, I was able to reproduce the problem with the > campaign that didn't had the problem, I created a new adgroup with > only site placement, and this reproduced the error. > > I can remove those ad groups from the campaigns we own, but for other > customers, I think we can't touch those ad groups, will the > engineering team fix this issue or there is other workaround? > > Regards, > > Xavier > > On Mar 4, 1:53 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > So this appears to be a new variation on an old issue. The common > > thread here seems to be that there is an ad group in the same campaign > > that contains only placement criteria (no keywords) and that ad group > > only has its siteMaxCpc bid set (no keywordMaxCpc). The presence of > > this ad group seems to prevent other ad groups in the same campaign > > from having their keywordContentMaxCpc bids set. > > > This is not the correct behavior, obviously, and I've brought the > > issue to the attention of the engineering team. Apologies that it took > > so much time to diagnose, but it is rather unexpected. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick > > > On Mar 2, 4:01 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Hmmm... that is an old issue, and now that you mention it I do > > > remember it cropping up last year. I'm going to dig a little and see > > > if this appears to be the same cause. If so, it would explain why > > > Xavier is seeing inconsistent behavior across different accounts. > > > > Cheers, > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > On Feb 27, 2:04 pm, bryanjj <brya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Jeff, > > > > > We also saw this error yesterday for the first time in over a year. > > > > > Before this was caused by a data issue on Google servers (support > > > > #246301284): > > > > "The corrupt ad groups were due to a problem on our end; they were > > > > basically incomplete ad groups, incorrectly created due to a bug which > > > > should be fixed by now, so you shouldn't be getting any more of them. > > > > However, if you come across any more, just let us know at this email > > > > address, and we'll take care of them. Sergio" > > > > > Would you mind checking the status of these two group ids to see if > > > > they are valid? > > > > 1166091575 > > > > 1172279705 > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bryan Jacobs > > > > Marin Software > > > > > On Feb 27, 10:11 am, Xavier <javier1...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I set it zero and thecontentbid gets set to Auto when I see it > > > > > through the web, if I'm not wrong Auto is not the same as using the > > > > > search bid (it's an average ofkeywordbids). > > > > > > I solve this by editing thebidsentering them manually through the > > > > > web, but the idea is to use the API to turn this into something > > > > > automatic. > > > > > > The thing that drives me crazy is that with other customer account, I > > > > > can have campaigns and adgroups with the exact same settings and the > > > > > API call works (I mean setting thecontentbid when search is off), so > > > > > I'm not sure if there is something that I'm missing or if it's a real > > > > > API bug. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Xavier > > > > > > On Feb 27, 3:07 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Xavier, > > > > > > > If you don't have a value set for keywordContentMaxCpc (or you set > > > > > > it > > > > > > to 0) then the value of keywordMaxCpc will be used forcontentnetwork > > > > > > CPCbidsinstead. So setting keywordMaxCpc will be enough to determine > > > > > > yourcontentbid in that scenario. > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
