Thank you very much for your reply Zweitze, this does help a bit but it does not quite solve our problem (you'd think it would though!) - here's why:
I've finally managed to get around to trying out this report and I can see it has ClickId, but this does not appear to match up to the gclid parameter. I was banking on storing the gclid passed along in the URL and later matching it up when we download the list of clicks from Google later. Additionally I have run it on one of our campaigns and the number of rows (i.e. clicks) returned in the click performance report has 40 *more* clicks than is shown for the account in the Adwords web interface. I understand of course that we may have more visits than there were clicks due to spidered Google results etc., but reconciling them means we can instantly mark them as no spend because we'll know Google didn't actually charge us (because that click wasn't actually from Google at all), but I don't understand why even Google's own record of clicks is different. Does anyone have any other suggestions of how we might reconcile/match the clicks reported on in Adwords to our internal record of each visit? Or maybe I'm missing something? Thanks James On Wednesday, 14 November 2012 13:10:35 UTC, Zweitze wrote: > > The click performance > report<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports?hl=nl#click>contains > information about individual clicks by date, group, ad, criterion > etc. but not time. It also has a mysterious field "ClickId" which may or > may not be linked to gclid in the URL. > > Hope this helps. > > On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:59:19 AM UTC+1, James Titcumb wrote: >> >> Currently we download a report which summarises each keyword's >> performance by day. However, on our tracking system we record each >> individual visit. We want to resolve the small discrepancy between our >> number of clicks recorded in our database and Google's number of clicks. >> >> Is there a way to download a list of all the clicks associated to each >> keyword/adtext/etc. so that we can basically match up Google's list of >> clicks to our own list of clicks (technically visits, I know, but we prefer >> to use the click metric). >> >> I've noticed there is an auto-tagging feature which appears to pass a >> unique parameter (the &gclid=xxx) field, I'm thinking it might be possible >> to match most of the clicks using that. >> >> If what I'm trying to achieve is not possible, is there another way we >> can achieve a similar result? >> >> Thanks, James >> > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
