This is how Google represents bids that they have made on your(or your clients) behalf. If you use BudgetOptimized, ConversionOptimized, or any Optimized by Google bidding, you will get these as the bids returned.
If a bid gets returned with "auto: " then the bid cannot be set through the API unless the bidding strategy is changed in the campaign settings. Currently "auto" and "auto: #.##" are the only values other than straight floats that I have seen returned in a bid field, but Google could always introduce new things so I catch parsing exceptions, replace what they sent me with a zero, and print out a warning into a log file if there is anything that is not caught by one of the cases that I already account for so the people who are monitoring the data know that some of it is not necessarily correct. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
