Hi, Among the criteria types you mentioned, only *Proximity* is available for *Search Network only* or *Search with Display Select* campaigns. The rest are only valid for *Display Network Only* campaigns. I realize this is a bit confusing, and I'm actually working on improving our documentation on this as we speak.
A few more points that may be helpful: - The Vertical <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/AdGroupCriterionService.Vertical> type is for targeting *sites* where you want your ads to appear on the *Display Network* by the site's products or services. If you want to target *users* by the their interests, you can use CriterionUserInterest <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/AdGroupCriterionService.CriterionUserInterest> criteria. Both of these types are limited to *Display Network only* campaigns. - On a *Search Network only *or *Display Network only *campaign you can target users by user list (*Audience* in the UI) by adding an *BiddableAdGroupCriterion* with criterion type CriterionUserList <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/AdGroupCriterionService.CriterionUserList>. This is not available on *Search Network with Display Select* campaigns for the reasons I outlined in my previous email. - When creating a campaign with advertisingChannelType <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/CampaignService.Campaign#advertisingChannelType> = *SEARCH*, what differentiates between a *Search Network only* vs. a *Search Network with Display Select* campaign is how you set targetContentNetwork <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/CampaignService.NetworkSetting#targetContentNetwork> on the campaign's networkSetting <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/CampaignService.Campaign#networkSetting> . - *false* -> The campaign will be a *Search Network only* campaign - *true* -> The campaign will be a *Search Network with Display Select* campaign Hope this helps. Let me know if you still have questions. Thanks, Josh, AdWords API Team On Friday, December 19, 2014 4:06:44 AM UTC-5, Richard Moran wrote: > > Ideally I want to be able to use gender, age range, proximity and some > sort of "interests" criterion (which I think is "verticals" in the AdWords > API?). I tried using the code from one of the examples which has age-range > and gender but they were both rejected with the > "CANNOT_ADD_CRITERION_TO_SEARCH_PLUS_CAMPAIGNS" error message. > > I'm guessing that the reason I can't use them is because I'm apparently > using a "search plus campaign". I have no idea how I've made it one of > those, the MCC says the campaign I've created is "search only" but ones > I've created through the AdWords website are "with display network". What > do I need to do to make the campaign "search only"? I'm just following the > code examples from the .NET nuget package at the moment. You can see my > test code here: https://gist.github.com/RichardMoran/605119732e63e9b25c0a > > On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 17:23:35 UTC, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API > Team) wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Search plus campaigns (also known as *Search Network with Display Select* or >> *SNDS* campaigns) only support specific types of criteria: Keyword, >> Language, Location, LocationGroups, Platform, and Proximity at the campaign >> level, and Keyword at the ad group level. The reason for this is that >> *SNDS* campaigns are basically *Search only* campaigns that also >> *automatically* server your ads on the *Display Network*, so any >> criteria types that are *Display Network*-specific (such as Vertical or >> Placement) are managed automatically for you by AdWords. This Help >> Center article >> <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6080593?rd=1#campaign_types> goes >> into more detail on the different campaign types. >> >> Which types of criteria do you want to add to your campaign or ad group? >> >> Thanks, >> Josh, AdWords API Team >> >> On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:33:21 AM UTC-5, Richard Moran wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to post my first campaign to AdWords. I can successfully >>> create a campaign, an AdGroup, add keywords and add a Text Ad, but I cannot >>> seem to add any criteria. >>> >>> Whenever I add a criteria to either my campaign or my AdGroup (can't >>> really tell which one I should add them to), I always get this >>> "CANNOT_ADD_CRITERION_TO_SEARCH_PLUS_CAMPAIGNS" error. Which is great >>> but I can't see how to make my campaign anything other than a "search plus >>> campaign". >>> >>> Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this? >>> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. 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