Thanks Jeff! I was on vacation last week, but just catching up now. We still see this error daily, so if there is any more info you need, just let me know.
Bryan Jacobs Marin Software On Mar 4, 1:44 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
