Hi all,
I am using the most recent version of Adwords API (v201309) and I am having
problems with Traffic Estimator service.
When I perform the a query through API, results don't match with UI.
For example, I want to do a query to find the estimated traffic for the
keyword "sapato masculino" (men's shoes), restricted to Brazil and
Portuguese language. I do it for a set of bids, in order to find out the
best initial bit to set up on my keyword settigns. The problem is that when
I do the same query through Adwords UI, it results in different numbers.
API's results are always more optimist. When I set the bit to a high value,
such as R$ 999999,99, the number of impressions are the same for the both
results. But the maximum values for average position, cpc and CTR (and,
consequently, number of clicks) is never the same --> API's results are
better then UI's. Of course, I am using the same account for the both of
methods...
Can somebody helps me please?
Following is my source code (in C#). I perform the test for values from
R$0,01 to R$0,10. Only the maximum number of impressions matches with UI's
results:
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using Google.Api.Ads.AdWords.Lib;
using Google.Api.Ads.AdWords.v201309;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
namespace CPCOptimizer
{
class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Program codeExample = new Program();
try
{
string kw = "sapato masculino";
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 10 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 9 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 8 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 7 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 6 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 5 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 4 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 3 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 2 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
codeExample.TrafficEstimator(new AdWordsUser(), 1 *
1000000, kw, KeywordMatchType.BROAD);
Console.Read();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Runs the code example.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="user">The AdWords user.</param>
public void TrafficEstimator(AdWordsUser user, long maxCpc, string
kw, KeywordMatchType matchType)
{
// Get the TrafficEstimatorService.
TrafficEstimatorService trafficEstimatorService =
(TrafficEstimatorService)user.GetService(
AdWordsService.v201309.TrafficEstimatorService);
// Create keywords. Up to 2000 keywords can be passed in a
single request.
Keyword keyword1 = new Keyword();
keyword1.text = kw;
keyword1.matchType = matchType;
// Create a keyword estimate request for each keyword.
List<KeywordEstimateRequest> keywordEstimateRequests = new
List<KeywordEstimateRequest>();
keywordEstimateRequests.Add(new KeywordEstimateRequest() {
keyword = keyword1 });
// Create negative keywords.
// Create ad group estimate requests.
AdGroupEstimateRequest adGroupEstimateRequest = new
AdGroupEstimateRequest();
adGroupEstimateRequest.keywordEstimateRequests =
keywordEstimateRequests.ToArray();
adGroupEstimateRequest.maxCpc = new Money();
adGroupEstimateRequest.maxCpc.microAmount = maxCpc;
// Create campaign estimate requests.
CampaignEstimateRequest campaignEstimateRequest = new
CampaignEstimateRequest();
campaignEstimateRequest.adGroupEstimateRequests = new
AdGroupEstimateRequest[] { adGroupEstimateRequest };
//campaignEstimateRequest.networkSetting = new NetworkSetting()
//{
// targetContentNetwork = false,
// targetGoogleSearch = true,
// targetPartnerSearchNetwork = false,
// targetSearchNetwork = false
//};
// See
http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/appendix/countrycodes.html
// for a detailed list of country codes.
Location countryCriterion = new Location();
countryCriterion.id = 2076; //Brazil
// See
http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/appendix/languagecodes.html
// for a detailed list of language codes.
Language languageCriterion = new Language();
languageCriterion.id = 1014; //pt
campaignEstimateRequest.criteria = new Criterion[] {
countryCriterion, languageCriterion };
// Create the selector.
TrafficEstimatorSelector selector = new
TrafficEstimatorSelector();
selector.campaignEstimateRequests = new
CampaignEstimateRequest[] { campaignEstimateRequest };
try
{
// Get traffic estimates.
TrafficEstimatorResult result =
trafficEstimatorService.get(selector);
// Display traffic estimates.
if (result != null && result.campaignEstimates != null &&
result.campaignEstimates.Length > 0)
{
CampaignEstimate campaignEstimate =
result.campaignEstimates[0];
if (campaignEstimate.adGroupEstimates != null &&
campaignEstimate.adGroupEstimates.Length > 0)
{
AdGroupEstimate adGroupEstimate =
campaignEstimate.adGroupEstimates[0];
if (adGroupEstimate.keywordEstimates != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i <
adGroupEstimate.keywordEstimates.Length; i++)
{
if (keywordEstimateRequests[i].isNegative)
{
continue;
}
Keyword keyword =
keywordEstimateRequests[i].keyword;
KeywordEstimate keywordEstimate =
adGroupEstimate.keywordEstimates[i];
double mcpc = ((double)maxCpc) / 100000000d;
double cpc =
((double)(keywordEstimate.min.averageCpc.microAmount +
keywordEstimate.max.averageCpc.microAmount)) / 200000000d;
float clicks =
(keywordEstimate.min.clicksPerDay + keywordEstimate.max.clicksPerDay) / 2;
float impressions =
(keywordEstimate.min.impressionsPerDay +
keywordEstimate.max.impressionsPerDay) / 2;
float ctr =
((keywordEstimate.min.clicksPerDay + keywordEstimate.max.clicksPerDay) /
(keywordEstimate.min.impressionsPerDay +
keywordEstimate.max.impressionsPerDay)) * 100.0f;
double cost =
((double)(keywordEstimate.min.totalCost.microAmount +
keywordEstimate.max.totalCost.microAmount)) / 200000000d;
double pos =
(keywordEstimate.min.averagePosition + keywordEstimate.max.averagePosition)
/ 2;
Console.WriteLine("{0:0.00}:\t\t{1} | {2} |
{3:0.00} | {4:0.00}", mcpc, Math.Round(clicks), Math.Round(impressions),pos
, (cost/clicks));
}
}
}
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("No traffic estimates were
returned.\n");
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new System.ApplicationException("Failed to retrieve
traffic estimates.", ex);
}
}
}
}
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