Does the Criteria Performance Report also return the Website and Content info? The vast majority of the missing "Keywords" are website entries.
-->Steve On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:52:14 PM UTC-5, Kevin Winter wrote: > > Hi Steve, > I ran some tests and spoke with my colleagues. It turns out I was 50% > correct (and 50% wrong). BoomUserList will not return in v201109 Keywords > report as this report only returns keywords. However, the BoomUserList is > the same as our remarketing list criteria in the new API. These create ARE > returning via the CRITERIA_PERFORMANCE_REPORT. I wrote a quick python > script that worked with the results of the AdPerformanceReport and the > CriteriaPerformanceReport and cross referenced on AdGroupId and KeywordId > (still not named well) and found that for your account the > CriteriaPerformanceReport did return values for each keywordId seen in the > AdPerformance report. You should be able to use this as a workaround. > (The only caveat is that KeywordMatchType is not available via the > Criteria report (for technical reasons), you'll have to use the Keyword > report if you need match type). > > - Kevin Winter > AdWords API Team > > On Monday, March 5, 2012 1:47:29 PM UTC-5, Kevin Winter wrote: >> >> Hi Steve, >> Could you please contact me off-list with the ReportDefinition XML you >> are using and the Customer ID of the account that are seeing these results >> in the Ad Performance Report? I'd like to investigate this further. >> >> - Kevin Winter >> AdWords API Team >> >> On Monday, March 5, 2012 1:43:30 PM UTC-5, Steve B wrote: >>> >>> Yes, they may be getting filtered out of the Keyword Performance Report >>> now, but... We're getting these rows in the v201109 Ad Performance Report, >>> despite your comment in #2, and the fact the Keyword ID now doesn't map to >>> anything in the Keyword Performance Report is a significant issue. Either >>> the Ad Performance Report shouldn't be returning those rows, OR there >>> should be a field in the Ad Performance Report which lets us identify those >>> rows and their usage and treat them accordingly, OR the Keyword Performance >>> Report should be returning something which matches those Keyword IDs. >>> Having those rows dangle with unspecified purpose is problematic -- just >>> leaving them in there with a dangling keyword ID isn't enough for us to >>> work with. >>> >>> -->Steve >>> >>> On Monday, March 5, 2012 11:11:36 AM UTC-5, Kevin Winter wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> 1) These "keywords" are part of a feature that has not yet been >>>> released in the API - logic was never added to filter it out of v13, hence >>>> v13 incorrectly returned this data. The reporting data returned in the UI >>>> also will not include this data. >>>> 2) Similar to #1, the UI won't return these values and therefore >>>> v201109 reports won't either. >>>> 3) This is the special "Content" keyword which represents the >>>> clicks/impressions/etc associated with the "sum" of all keywords in an >>>> adgroup that caused it to trigger on Content networks (i.e. display) when >>>> you added keywords to an adgroup that displays on websites (placements). >>>> >>>> V13 uses a completely different reporting backend from both the UI and >>>> v201109 reports. When troubleshooting discrepancies, please compare API >>>> reports to the UI, as there is no guarantee that v13 behavior is still >>>> possible. (i.e. the product moved in a different direction and v13 didn't >>>> keep up). >>>> >>>> - Kevin Winter >>>> AdWords API Team >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:14:29 PM UTC-5, Steve B wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Alas, that didn't work for me, at least in most cases. I've did a >>>>> lot of analysis, cross checking IDs against the v13 report data, and have >>>>> discovered they all fall into the following categories. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 1) Many of the missing keywords are reported in the v13 keyword report >>>>> as domain names, with a kwType of "Website". >>>>> >>>>> 2) Other keywords which are reported in the v13 keyword report with a >>>>> kwType of "BoomUserList", where the keyword itself is "boomuserlist >> >>>>> nnnnnn" where nnnnnn is a number. >>>>> >>>>> 3) Two of the entries are reported as having a keywordid of 3000000 - >>>>> and aren't reported in the v13 keyword list either. In the Ad >>>>> Performance >>>>> Reports, this keyword was reported with a kwType of Content and a keyword >>>>> of Total - content targeting >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's really unclear to me whether the necessary data exists in the Ad >>>>> Performance Report to deal with these. I can handle the third case by >>>>> explicitly checking for that keyword ID, but I don't have any clue how to >>>>> fill in the blanks on the first two cases. They don't seem to be >>>>> covered >>>>> in the docs or any other discussion on the web, as yet. Can anyone from >>>>> Google elaborate on this, please? >>>>> >>>>> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
