Anyone please help! We have begun experimenting with the TrafficEstimatorService. When given an existing campaign, adgroup and corresponding keywords - the forecasted estimates seem to be way off from historic averages. I understand that forecasts will necessarily be a little different than history - but these differences are too large to be explained by simple volatility.
We call the estimator passing in an existing campaign ID, existing adgroup ID all the existing keywords in that adgroup with their match types, and with the existing adgroup max CPC (we don't set keyword max CPCs in our account). We do not set criterion, budget or networksetting as we would like to use the settings of the existing campaign and adgroup in our account. We believe that the results returned should at least be in the same order of magnitude of the recent history of the adgroup since we are using the same Max CPC. This is not the case. For example, if we average all the min / max estimates at the platform level and total them up (tablet, mobile, desktop), we might get a total cost per day of $0.68. Where in reality the total cost per day is averaging $18.00. These aren't in the same ballpark. Question 1: Why are the numbers so different? In addition, this particular adgroup has a bid modifier of tablet -100%. So no tablet traffic should ever see this adgroup. However the estimator says that some traffic will see it and click on it. Question 2: Does the traffic estimator ignore bid mofifiers in the adgroup settings? -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/51810b93-d126-4084-a220-e15ee0d46789%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
