Hi Dominic, If work hours is something that decides how many operators your client has at a given point, then you could consider using AdSchedules instead. You can set bid modifiers on them, at campaign level. See https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201402/CampaignCriterionService.CampaignCriterion#bidModifier for details.
Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 6:30:47 PM UTC-4, Dominic wrote: > > Hi Josh, > > Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately I don't think this will suit my > client. They have a PPC "expert" who is advising them and creating > campaigns by tweaking the CPC at the ad level, so I don't think I'm gong to > be able to convince them to switch to any of the flexible bid strategies. > > I'd come up with an alternate solution where they will duplicate their > campaigns and manually adjust the the CPC on each ad in each duplicated > campaign. This way you would have a standard campaign, a low rate campaign > and a high rate campaign, then use the API to switch between these > campaigns based on the number of operators they have available. > > I was thinking that I could even create a simple script to duplicate a > campaign and adjust all CPC bids by a fixed percentage. > > Thanks, > > Dom > > On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 6:33:46 PM UTC+1, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API > Team) wrote: >> >> Hi Dom, >> >> Have you considered creating a Shared Bid >> Strategy<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/bidding#shared-strategies> >> that >> you could use across all of your campaigns? The >> TargetSpendBiddingScheme<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201402/BiddingStrategyService.TargetSpendBiddingScheme> >> may >> be a good fit for your use case. >> >> Also, since you are looking at limiting the *spend* you might want to >> consider using Shared >> Budgets<https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/shared-budgets>. >> >> With a shared budget you could adjust the spend for all campaigns >> associated with the budget at once. >> >> Cheers, >> Josh, AdWords API Team >> >> On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:41:51 PM UTC-4, Dominic wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm new to both adwords and the API, so please excuse me if I use terms >>> incorrectly. >>> >>> My clients runs several campaigns with a CPC set at the ad level. I >>> would like to adjust their spend based on the number of call handlers they >>> have to available to process new clients. Ideally I would like to allow >>> them to keep the fine grained control and use a multiplier to adjust their >>> spend. >>> >>> Ad group level bid modifiers would be ideal for what I want to do, but >>> they are only available for mobile and I need something across all >>> platforms. >>> >>> One solution I'm considering is querying their account, getting the CPC >>> for each ad, then modifying them all by a fixed percentage and then locally >>> storing the change, so that I can modify them back again later. I can see >>> two problems with this - firstly I'm sure rounding errors will creep in and >>> compound and secondly if my client changes the CPC for an ad after I've >>> made a global adjustment then that ad will have a price that is out of sync >>> with the other ads. >>> >>> If anyone can suggest a solution or point me to and API call I'd >>> overlooked then I'd appreciate it. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Dom >>> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
