Hi, 1) You need to set your original AdGroup to control only, so it later gets paused if you promote your experiment.
2) The Quality scores will get preserved the system is smart enough to understand that you are duplicating your ad group. So the suggestion made in the post still valid. Best, - David Torres, AdWords API Team On Oct 4, 3:56 pm, schismatosis <abpur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, trying to get through this in Ruby right now... > > Two questions though, both related: > > If you create a duplicate adgroup that is to be 100% control, and leave > the original adgroup 100% : > > 1. Do you need to add experimentData with experimentDeltaStatus set > to "CONTROL_ONLY" to the original adgroup? > > 2. Will the new adgroup have the same "quality score" as the old one, > since it has no history? What about if you just add a regular > experiment to an old adgroup - are these really functionally the same? > What I know of adwords and history/"quality score" makes me very > hesitant to believe that this is really an acceptable way of doing > things, even though it is suggested in the documentation as a way to > handle the current reporting limitations. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
