Hello, First of all looking forward to the communities thoughts on this issue.
I have a scenario where our system has logged numerous clicks with the same exact GCLID. After doing some investigation we have found that the clicks are being reported by the Adwords Click Performance API in the past. Actually these are found back on the originating date of the first occurrence of this GCLID. So for example I have over 50 clicks with the same GCLID between Dec. 2015 - Jan. 2016. In this example the first occurrences of this GCLID was in December. So my question is, how is Adwords assigning the duplicate GCLID? I have other examples which are a counter example, I am able to confirm its the same consumer, but with different GCLIDs. In order to ensure our process lines up with Adwords UI I want to address this anomaly via the best practice to ensure we are not misrepresenting the Marketers digital spend in our platform. What is the best practice to deal with this scenario. My concern is that these clicks were sent via active tracking so I know that the click requests were sent on the date I received them, not via a bookmark on the users browser. If I were using web logs that could be the cause but am not using web logs so I know Adwords generated(assigned, appended) this duplicate ID in January but inevitably reported on this occurrence in December. The other concern is that the data freshness doesn't clearly outline any limits on how far *back *to look so my concern is that I will *not *know how far back to keep looking for an original GCLID. https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2544985?hl=en This article seems close but not exactly the same. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/adwords-api/gclid$20/adwords-api/t4xZxN9cAvo/b5fpa3OHEi4J Please help :D Thanks, Brad -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/78d0b60a-9674-4617-b467-6d3b9038a112%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
