Hi Nadine, Sorry to bump this thread, but I came across a lot more target types once I started to expand beyond cities that were in my immediate area and I wasn't sure if these types were subsets. Per the example given, neighborhoods and boroughs are subdivisions of cities.
What about: Canton, City Region, Congressional District, County, Department, District, DMA Region, Governate, Municipality, Region, Territory, TV Region, Union Territory? Are any of these target types subdivisions of cities? Ideally, I'm looking to target on a city-level only and want to avoid target types that include: 1) subdivisions of a city (ie: neighborhoods, boroughs) or 2) Multiple cities that are grouped together (ie: a region that might include multiple adjacent cities). Are any of the target types I listed above qualify as one of these two cases? PS: ParentID's in all cases pointed to the state/province level so using the ParentID isn't an effective way to determine if its a top level targeting type. Thank you! On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 9:24:44 AM UTC-5, Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Greetings! > > I'm happy to hear that's working for you so far. > > Yes, neighborhoods and boroughs are subdivisions of cities. For example, > the city of New York (NYC) is split into 5 boroughs of which Manhattan is > one of the 5 boroughs. The LocationCriterionService > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201601/LocationCriterionService> > has > a field called parentLocations > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201601/LocationCriterionService.Location#parentlocations> > > in Location > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201601/LocationCriterionService.Location> > that > will tell you if the location you passed in is a subset of another location. > > Happy coding, > Nadine, AdWords API Team > > On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 6:12:25 PM UTC-5, Charles Michael wrote: >> >> Thank you Nadine, I really appreciate it and this will make it much >> easier than using trial and error, I'm not sure why I had municipality in >> my list, but I just tried a few Municipalities and they worked. If I find >> the ID that failed with municipality, I'll post in here. >> >> Finally, I did have one quick follow up question and that's regarding the >> relationship between a City, Neighborhood and Borough. I'm breaking out my >> campaigns by cities so I can target my ads better, but I wanted to check if >> Neighborhoods and Boroughs are subsets of cities. If this is true, this >> would likely explain why it's not possible to get search volumes for these >> two types of ID's as well, but I wanted to see if this was the case all the >> time. Here's an example I'm looking at to see if this correlation is true: >> Stoney Creek, Ontario (ID: 1002435). According to a simple google search, >> Stoney Creek is a community within Hamilton, Ontario (ID: 1002287). So I'm >> somewhat led to believe that a user in Stoney Creek, Ontario would come up >> as true for both the criterion of a Neighborhood (1002435) and for the city >> of Hamilton (1002287). If this is true in general, I can eliminate >> neighborhoods and boroughs from my lists since I'm looking to target to >> just the city level. >> >> Thank you Nadine. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 5:26:32 PM UTC-5, Nadine Sundquist >> (AdWords API Team) wrote: >>> >>> Hello Charles, >>> >>> The team got back to me. The geo types that are supported for >>> TargetingIdeaService are: >>> "Country", "Region", "Other", "Province", "State", "Territory", "City", >>> "Canton", "Autonomous Community", "County", "Union Territory", >>> "Prefecture", "Governorate", "DMA Region", "Municipality", "Congressional >>> District", "Department" >>> >>> If you find one of one of those types that does not work, please tell >>> us. Thanks to you, we'll be updating our documentation so future users of >>> the service will have this list available. >>> >>> Best, >>> Nadine, AdWords API Team >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 3:30:14 PM UTC-5, Nadine Sundquist >>> (AdWords API Team) wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Charles, >>>> >>>> I pinged the thread I started with that Targeting Idea Service >>>> engineering team again. Sometimes, they get a bit busy and don't see the >>>> questions come in. I'll keep you updated as soon as I hear more. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Nadine, AdWords API Team >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 1:05:38 PM UTC-5, Charles Michael >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've also found out that type "City Region" doesn't seem supported >>>>> either for getting search volume estimates. So far the list of >>>>> unsupported >>>>> types I've done by trial and error seem to be: >>>>> Municipality >>>>> Borough >>>>> Neighborhood >>>>> City Region >>>>> >>>>> Would love to get a confirmed list from Google staff however before I >>>>> assume all criterion's of these types don't work. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:45:27 PM UTC-5, Charles Michael wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello Nadine, >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it possible to get a list of all Target Type's that will or won't >>>>>> work with the adwords api? It seems like something that should be >>>>>> disclosed >>>>>> in the documentation: >>>>>> https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201601/TargetingIdeaService.LocationSearchParameter >>>>>> >>>>>> rather than simply stating "Not all back-ends support sub-country >>>>>> precision." By trial and error, it appears (but I can't be certain if >>>>>> this >>>>>> is due to low volumes or due to the type) that types Municipality, >>>>>> Borough >>>>>> and Neighborhood lead to an API error. Most other types seem to go work >>>>>> but >>>>>> it would be great if the documentation stated which types are accepted >>>>>> rather than guessing. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:28:20 PM UTC-5, Nadine Sundquist >>>>>> (AdWords API Team) wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Charles, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *QUESTIONS:* Is there any way of getting the search volumes for a >>>>>>> neighborhood? Entering the same location via the keyword planner >>>>>>> doesn't appear to work so I'm assuming there isn't a way to do this >>>>>>> from >>>>>>> the API either? It seems odd to me that small cities with just a few >>>>>>> hundred population work but a neighborhood with over half a million >>>>>>> isn't >>>>>>> available? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *ANSWERS: *If the user interface doesn't have the data, then the >>>>>>> API won't, either. Even though we have a different code base accessing >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> data, we're still working off of the same data on the back-end. >>>>>>> Unfortunately, I don't know the history behind why neighborhoods don't >>>>>>> have >>>>>>> this data associated with them. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Since this issue also presents itself in the AdWords user interface, >>>>>>> I would also recommend posting to the general AdWords Community >>>>>>> forum >>>>>>> <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Google-AdWords/ct-p/Google_AdWords>. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> They may have the reason why, and they may be able to put in a general >>>>>>> feature request for something like this. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> Nadine, AdWords API Team >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 3:33:17 PM UTC-5, Charles Michael >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've come to the assumption that it has to do with the type of >>>>>>>> criterion, if its a neighborhood, it seems to always lead to an error. >>>>>>>> I'm >>>>>>>> looking at the documentation for TargetingIdeaService. The >>>>>>>> documentation for the API does state "Warning: Not all back-ends >>>>>>>> support sub-country precision.", although it doesn't specifically >>>>>>>> state how >>>>>>>> to identify which levels work. From the various tests I ran over the >>>>>>>> weekend, every ID that was a neighborhood failed. However, some of the >>>>>>>> criterion's are rather large areas, one example is ID: 1002416 which >>>>>>>> is >>>>>>>> "Scarborough,Ontario,Canada", a population of over 625,000 people >>>>>>>> which is >>>>>>>> quite a sizable market size. Is there any way of getting the search >>>>>>>> volumes >>>>>>>> for a neighborhood? Entering the same location via the keyword planner >>>>>>>> doesn't appear to work so I'm assuming there isn't a way to do this >>>>>>>> from >>>>>>>> the API either? It seems odd to me that small cities with just a few >>>>>>>> hundred population work but a neighborhood with over half a million >>>>>>>> isn't >>>>>>>> available? This does create an issue as I don't have any way of >>>>>>>> estimating >>>>>>>> volumes for neighborhoods which are still valuable locations of >>>>>>>> interest to >>>>>>>> us. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 12:43:51 PM UTC-5, Anthony Madrigal >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi Charles, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> As far as I know, there is no list other than the link you >>>>>>>>> provided that shows the geo targeting criteria codes. If you would >>>>>>>>> like me >>>>>>>>> to further investigate this issue, please *reply privately to >>>>>>>>> author *the SOAP request and response you used to get this error. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>> Anthony >>>>>>>>> AdWords API Team >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. 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