Re: MostSpecificCriteriaId in Geo Performance report

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello David,

You shouldn't use the ParentID to construct hierarchies, as that is only 
included for legacy support. Instead, use the Canonical Name for 
hierarchical representations. You can find more information on our Geographical 
Targeting page 
, 
which also includes a searchable dataset of criteria.

A given area smaller than and entirely contained within another area is not 
necessarily going to be a child of that area in the hierarchy; it seems you 
may have already found one of these exceptions.

Regards,
Mike, AdWords API Team

On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 7:20:59 AM UTC-5, David Antunes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> More questions regarding this report:
>  - If I understand correctly the geographical data is in a tree-like 
> structure, where I can, for example, get all the impressions for the 
> MostSpecificCriteriaId:
> 9056913, CBD & South Melbourne,Victoria,Australia, City Region
> by summing all of the impressions of the locations "bellow" it, right?
>
> The locations "bellow" CBD & South Melbourne are the ones which have it as 
> the Parent ID, and so forth, recursively, right?
>
> Now, in the adwords UI, for a certain date range, I see 9 impressions in 
> the city region "CBD & South Melbourne". From the reports I count only 2.
> I went to see which are the locations "bellow" CBD & South Melbourne in 
> adwords: it has Neighborhood and University.
> I have 7 impressions in the "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" Neighborhood 
> (none in universities).
> So 2 from the City Region "CBD & South Melbourne", plus 7 on the 
> "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" Neighborhood "bellow" it = 9; all ok in 
> adwords.
>
> Now, from the reports I see only 2 - probably the ones from the city 
> region. So I'm missing the impressions from the locations bellow "CBD & 
> South Melbourne".
> I went to see what is the Parent ID of the "Melbourne, Victoria, 
> Australia" Neighborhood, it is:
> 20040, Victoria,Australia, State
> Hmm... if the parent of the neighborhood is the State and not the city 
> region, how can I ever find out that the "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" 
> Neighborhood 
> is bellow the city region "CBD & South Melbourne", so that I can count 
> the impressions correctly??
>
> Many thanks,
> David
>
> On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 10:17:23 AM UTC, David Antunes wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get cases (about 1.6% of the rows) where the CountryCriteriaId on the 
>> geo performance report is defined (and sometimes the region, etc) but not 
>> the MostSpecificCriteriaId.
>> What is the meaning of this situation? If the CountryCriteriaId is 
>> defined shouldn't it be the MostSpecificCriteriaId (or the region/city 
>> if they are defined)?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> David
>>
>

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Re: MostSpecificCriteriaId in Geo Performance report

[David Antunes]

Hi,

More questions regarding this report:
 - If I understand correctly the geographical data is in a tree-like 
structure, where I can, for example, get all the impressions for the 
MostSpecificCriteriaId:
9056913, CBD & South Melbourne,Victoria,Australia, City Region
by summing all of the impressions of the locations "bellow" it, right?

The locations "bellow" CBD & South Melbourne are the ones which have it as 
the Parent ID, and so forth, recursively, right?

Now, in the adwords UI, for a certain date range, I see 9 impressions in 
the city region "CBD & South Melbourne". From the reports I count only 2.
I went to see which are the locations "bellow" CBD & South Melbourne in 
adwords: it has Neighborhood and University.
I have 7 impressions in the "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" Neighborhood 
(none in universities).
So 2 from the City Region "CBD & South Melbourne", plus 7 on the 
"Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" Neighborhood "bellow" it = 9; all ok in 
adwords.

Now, from the reports I see only 2 - probably the ones from the city 
region. So I'm missing the impressions from the locations bellow "CBD & 
South Melbourne".
I went to see what is the Parent ID of the "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" 
Neighborhood, it is:
20040, Victoria,Australia, State
Hmm... if the parent of the neighborhood is the State and not the city 
region, how can I ever find out that the "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" 
Neighborhood 
is bellow the city region "CBD & South Melbourne", so that I can count the 
impressions correctly??

Many thanks,
David

On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 10:17:23 AM UTC, David Antunes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I get cases (about 1.6% of the rows) where the CountryCriteriaId on the 
> geo performance report is defined (and sometimes the region, etc) but not 
> the MostSpecificCriteriaId.
> What is the meaning of this situation? If the CountryCriteriaId is 
> defined shouldn't it be the MostSpecificCriteriaId (or the region/city if 
> they are defined)?
>
> Many thanks,
> David
>

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MostSpecificCriteriaId in Geo Performance report

[David Antunes]

Hi,

I get cases (about 1.6% of the rows) where the CountryCriteriaId on the geo 
performance report is defined (and sometimes the region, etc) but not the 
MostSpecificCriteriaId.
What is the meaning of this situation? If the CountryCriteriaId is defined 
shouldn't it be the MostSpecificCriteriaId (or the region/city if they are 
defined)?

Many thanks,
David

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