Hi Jonathan, It looks like the Google Product Taxonomy is a static list, so it is *possible* that it's outdated, but I'm still looking to confirm that. I'll post back here when I have more information on that front.
I'm curious -- do you have specific examples where *Merchant Center* shows products in a category that is not returned by ConstantDataService.getProductBiddingCategoryData <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201406/ConstantDataService#getProductBiddingCategoryData>, or vice versa? If so, could you send me screenshots from *Merchant Center* and ad group/criterion ID pairs where you see this occurring? Thanks, Josh, AdWords API Team On Thursday, July 24, 2014 3:17:37 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Wu wrote: > > Hello, > > We are getting into using the adwords api to automate building shopping > campaigns for our clients. We just recently found that the Google Product > Taxonomy <https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/1705911?hl=en> which > the feeds use for categorization are different from the Product Bidding > Categories > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201402/ConstantDataService.ProductBiddingCategory> > used > in the API. Why was this done? You guys must have some kind of mapping from > one to the other since you are receiving the items with the product > taxonomy and taking bids with the product bidding category. Can you provide > us with that mapping? If this is not possible, the API really is limited in > any practical use since we can't create any automation for our clients > without making our own mapping that will need to be updated when you change > anything on either side. > > Regards, > Jonathan > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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.
