Hi Victor, You get charged for every result that comes back, regardless of how many monthly searches it has.
Best, - Eric On Jan 16, 4:07 am, Victor <[email protected]> wrote: > I tested it by changing "IDEAS" to "STATS" and now it is returning all > of the keywords with 0 monthly searches in addition to the other > keywords in my list. What I am wondering is, do I get charged API > usage for the keywords that it returns with 0 monthly searches? If so, > then it is more cost effective in terms of API charges to use the > "IDEAS" format, because that format does not return the keywords with > 0 monthly searches... > Victor > > On Jan 5, 2:59 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > If you use the requestType "STATS" instead of "KEYWORDS" then data > > will only be returned for the exact keywords in your request. > > > Best, > > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > > On Jan 5, 9:20 am, v <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Can anyone help with this? I found the option "include" for the > > >targetingIdeaServiceand I added it to the selector intending to > > > include "ONLY" the keywords listed in "include". > > > Also, I have limited the maximum results to the number that I am > > > sending. Let's say that I am sending 100 keywords, and I only want to > > > receive the same 100 back ie: > > > $paging=new Paging(); > > > $paging->startIndex=0; > > > $paging->numberResults=100; > > > Here is the include portion: > > > $ideaTextMatchesSearchParameter=new > > > IdeaTextMatchesSearchParameter(); > > > $ideaTextMatchesSearchParameter->included=$included; # (the list of > > > 100 keywords that I want ONLY returned) > > > However, the "include" parameter does not seem to make any difference. > > > I am sending 100 keywords, and I want to receive only the same 100 > > > back. Instead, it returns 7 of them, the ones that have search volume, > > > and 93 other ones that are different. I don't need those other 93. How > > > do I get it to return only the 7, the same ones out of the group that > > > I have sent? Obviously, there were 93 out of my list that have 0 > > > search volume, so they were not returned. Therefore, I want to receive > > > only the 7 that HAVE search volume, and I do not need the 93 other > > > related keywords. This is especially important because the API is > > > charging me for all 100 keywords in the result, yet I only need 7 of > > > them....- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
