Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi All, The search volume reported by the keyword tool (signed out) and the API should be the same. There may still be some accounts where the search volume when signed in is different, but this should be corrected in the next couple of weeks. Best, - Eric On Oct 14, 10:12 am, keesjan adwo...@interneteffect.com wrote: Any updates yet? On Aug 25, 4:09 pm, Test Vilkin vilkinm...@googlemail.com wrote: I get a 100 percent match(same keywords, same keywords order and all volumes for that), when I compare data from AdWords API and OLD VERSION of Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN with the same user name as my API uses. Old version is athttps://adwords.google.de/select/KeywordTool?forceLegacy=true -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
I get a 100 percent match(same keywords, same keywords order and all volumes for that), when I compare data from AdWords API and OLD VERSION of Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN with the same user name as my API uses. Old version is at https://adwords.google.de/select/KeywordTool?forceLegacy=true -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
FYI it appears as though this problem may not be effecting exact match search volume data from the API. We've run a few initial tests and with the tool logged in vs. API vs. logged out tool and so far it looks as though you can actually get accurate numbers (accurate in the sense they match the keyword tool when logged out) if you do not specify the client email in the API call. This appears to be a quick fix if you need to pull down SV data in the meantime. HTH Thanks Andrew On Jul 28, 2:48 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Andrew, The core engineering team is still working on the issue, but I still don't have any information on when the problem will be resolved. Best, - Eric On Jul 27, 4:20 pm, ExpediaSEOTeam expediasite...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, Is there any update on a fix for this bug? It's been almost three weeks since you mentioned the engineering team were looking into this. Thanks Andrew On Jul 12, 4:13 pm, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi, The core engineering team is working on this issue, but at this time I don't have any further details. Best, - Eric On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, k keen...@gmail.com wrote: Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keywordusing the GUItoolwhen signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the hugedifference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using theAPI-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but have different results using theAPIand the Webinterface. For theKeywordwandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) AdwordsAPIgives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) AdwordsKeywordToolLOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MYAPI- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly thiskeyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) AdwordsKeywordToolExternal (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) AdwordsKeywordToolLOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout theAPIis any reliable, or - as we pay for theAPIdata - if only theAPI-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of twokeyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1)Search-basedKeywordTool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWordsKeywordTool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWordsKeywordToolshare the same underlying technology, and thesearchvolumeestimates should be the same in both. TheSearch-basedKeywordTooluses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver differentsearchvolume estimates. Please using the AdWordsKeywordToolwhen doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KWTool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KWTool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country,
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi Andrew, The core engineering team is still working on the issue, but I still don't have any information on when the problem will be resolved. Best, - Eric On Jul 27, 4:20 pm, ExpediaSEOTeam expediasite...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eric, Is there any update on a fix for this bug? It's been almost three weeks since you mentioned the engineering team were looking into this. Thanks Andrew On Jul 12, 4:13 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi, The core engineering team is working on this issue, but at this time I don't have any further details. Best, - Eric On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, k keen...@gmail.com wrote: Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keywordusing the GUItoolwhen signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the hugedifference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using theAPI-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but have different results using theAPIand the Webinterface. For theKeywordwandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) AdwordsAPIgives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) AdwordsKeywordToolLOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MYAPI- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly thiskeyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) AdwordsKeywordToolExternal (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) AdwordsKeywordToolLOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout theAPIis any reliable, or - as we pay for theAPIdata - if only theAPI-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of twokeyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1)Search-basedKeywordTool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWordsKeywordTool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWordsKeywordToolshare the same underlying technology, and thesearchvolumeestimates should be the same in both. TheSearch-basedKeywordTooluses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver differentsearchvolume estimates. Please using the AdWordsKeywordToolwhen doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KWTool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KWTool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeingbetweentheAPIand the KWtool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-basedKeywordTooltargets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). TheAPIon the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi Eric, Is there any update on a fix for this bug? It's been almost three weeks since you mentioned the engineering team were looking into this. Thanks Andrew On Jul 12, 4:13 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi, The core engineering team is working on this issue, but at this time I don't have any further details. Best, - Eric On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, k keen...@gmail.com wrote: Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keywordusing the GUItoolwhen signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the hugedifference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using theAPI-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but have different results using theAPIand the Webinterface. For theKeywordwandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) AdwordsAPIgives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) AdwordsKeywordToolLOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MYAPI- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly thiskeyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) AdwordsKeywordToolExternal (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) AdwordsKeywordToolLOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout theAPIis any reliable, or - as we pay for theAPIdata - if only theAPI-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of twokeyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1)Search-basedKeywordTool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWordsKeywordTool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWordsKeywordToolshare the same underlying technology, and thesearchvolumeestimates should be the same in both. TheSearch-basedKeywordTooluses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver differentsearchvolume estimates. Please using the AdWordsKeywordToolwhen doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KWTool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KWTool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeingbetweentheAPIand the KWtool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWordsAPIAdvisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-basedKeywordTooltargets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). TheAPIon the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of thekeywordtoolyou need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi Rob, At this time I don't have any time estimates on when this issue will be resolved. Best, - Eric On Jul 19, 4:49 pm, histrionics robbu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Any update on this situation? I understand you guys are working on it, but any update you can provide in terms of timeline would be invaluable to me and my clients. Thanks! Rob On Jul 14, 9:42 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi All, Just to clarify, this is a known issue that we're working on. Note that, for a given AdWords account, the numbers will match across the API and the Keyword Tool. We're working on addressing the differences in numbers between the external Keyword Tool, and the signed-in version of the Keyword Tool. Best, - Eric On Jul 12, 7:13 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi, The core engineering team is working on this issue, but at this time I don't have any further details. Best, - Eric On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, k keen...@gmail.com wrote: Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keyword using the GUI tool when signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the huge difference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using the API-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but havedifferentresults using the API and the Webinterface. For the Keyword wandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) Adwords API gives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MY API- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly this keyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) Adwords Keyword Tool External (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout the API is any reliable, or - as we pay for the API data - if only the API-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightlydifferenttechnology. 1)Search-based Keyword Tool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and thesearchvolumeestimates should be the same in both. TheSearch-based Keyword Tool uses slightlydifferent technology and is expected to deliverdifferentsearchvolume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi there, Any update on this situation? I understand you guys are working on it, but any update you can provide in terms of timeline would be invaluable to me and my clients. Thanks! Rob On Jul 14, 9:42 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi All, Just to clarify, this is a known issue that we're working on. Note that, for a given AdWords account, the numbers will match across the API and the Keyword Tool. We're working on addressing the differences in numbers between the external Keyword Tool, and the signed-in version of the Keyword Tool. Best, - Eric On Jul 12, 7:13 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi, The core engineering team is working on this issue, but at this time I don't have any further details. Best, - Eric On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, k keen...@gmail.com wrote: Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keyword using the GUI tool when signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the huge difference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using the API-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but havedifferentresults using the API and the Webinterface. For the Keyword wandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) Adwords API gives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MY API- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly this keyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) Adwords Keyword Tool External (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout the API is any reliable, or - as we pay for the API data - if only the API-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightlydifferenttechnology. 1)Search-based Keyword Tool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and thesearchvolumeestimates should be the same in both. TheSearch-based Keyword Tool uses slightlydifferent technology and is expected to deliverdifferentsearchvolume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi All, Just to clarify, this is a known issue that we're working on. Note that, for a given AdWords account, the numbers will match across the API and the Keyword Tool. We're working on addressing the differences in numbers between the external Keyword Tool, and the signed-in version of the Keyword Tool. Best, - Eric On Jul 12, 7:13 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi, The core engineering team is working on this issue, but at this time I don't have any further details. Best, - Eric On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, k keen...@gmail.com wrote: Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keyword using the GUI tool when signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the huge difference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using the API-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but have different results using the API and the Webinterface. For the Keyword wandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) Adwords API gives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MY API- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly this keyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) Adwords Keyword Tool External (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout the API is any reliable, or - as we pay for the API data - if only the API-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1) Search-based Keyword Tool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and the search volume estimates should be the same in both. The Search-based Keyword Tool uses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver different search volume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi, The core engineering team is working on this issue, but at this time I don't have any further details. Best, - Eric On Jul 9, 5:21 pm, k keen...@gmail.com wrote: Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keyword using the GUI tool when signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the huge difference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using the API-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but have different results using the API and the Webinterface. For the Keyword wandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) Adwords API gives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MY API- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly this keyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) Adwords Keyword Tool External (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout the API is any reliable, or - as we pay for the API data - if only the API-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1) Search-based Keyword Tool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and the search volume estimates should be the same in both. The Search-based Keyword Tool uses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver different search volume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Bump. I am having the same problem as Achim above. It is quite maddening. Has anyone figured out why there is such a huge discrepancy? Can anyone explain how to get the stats for A SINGLE PARTICULAR keyword using the GUI tool when signed in? If there is no fix for this, then I would at least like to understand what is causing the huge difference. Thanks, K On Jul 5, 7:42 am, GMTD i...@kntrst.com wrote: Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using the API-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but have different results using the API and the Webinterface. For the Keyword wandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) Adwords API gives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MY API- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly this keyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) Adwords Keyword Tool External (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout the API is any reliable, or - as we pay for the API data - if only the API-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1) Search-based Keyword Tool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and the search volume estimates should be the same in both. The Search-based Keyword Tool uses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver different search volume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Dear Eric, I seem to have sort of the same problem, but Brians solution didn't help me since now. We're using the API-Requests targeted with LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter but have different results using the API and the Webinterface. For the Keyword wandpaneele in the EXACT-Mode... i) Adwords API gives me the value of 2.400 for global_monthly_requests ii) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH THE SAME USERNAME AS MY API- APPLICATION uses doesn't give me any stats about exactly this keyword (strange, isn't it?) iii) Adwords Keyword Tool External (NOT LOGGED IN, captcha-mode) gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests (some 340% divergence) iv) Adwords Keyword Tool LOGGED IN WITH ANOTHER USERNAME gives me 8.100 for global_monthly_requests We just wonder if the data available throughout the API is any reliable, or - as we pay for the API data - if only the API-Data is close to the truth. If you need my accounts'-data to help out pls refer to me via email. Thanks in advance Achim On 30 Jun., 22:45, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1) Search-based Keyword Tool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and the search volume estimates should be the same in both. The Search-based Keyword Tool uses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver different search volume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to returnsearchvolumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1) Search-based Keyword Tool: http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and the search volume estimates should be the same in both. The Search-based Keyword Tool uses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver different search volume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to returnsearchvolumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Eric - Thanks for your reply. I finally figured out the problem: the TargetingIdeaService only matches the AdWords Keyword Tool if you are LOGGED OUT of your Adwords account. This raises two questions: 1) Why do the Keyword Tool results differ depending upon whether or not you are signed into your Adwords account? 2) I am always logged in when I use the Keyword Tool, primarily because I can view and download 800 results vs. only 100 when you are not logged in. Therefore, how do we make the TargetingIdeaService results match the logged-in results? Or is this not possible? Thanks - Brian On Jun 30, 1:45 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, So it looks like the problem is due to the existence of two keyword tools that use slightly different technology. 1) Search-based Keyword Tool:http://www.google.com/sktool/ 2) AdWords Keyword Tool:https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal The TargetingIdeaService and AdWords Keyword Tool share the same underlying technology, and the search volume estimates should be the same in both. The Search-based Keyword Tool uses slightly different technology and is expected to deliver different search volume estimates. Please using the AdWords Keyword Tool when doing comparisons with the TargetingIdeaService. Best, - Eric On Jun 29, 1:02 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to returnsearchvolumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthly search volumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, The difference is likely due to a difference in targeting. By default the Search-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to return search volumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to returnsearchvolumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to returnsearchvolumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Thanks, Eric. I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue and look forward to your findings. Regards - Brian On Jun 29, 8:03 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, I'll look into this a bit deeper and let you know what I find. Best, - Eric On Jun 25, 5:36 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthlysearchvolumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, Thedifferenceis likely due to adifferencein targeting. By default theSearch-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to returnsearchvolumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Eric - Thank you for your quick response. We actually went back and modified the 'GetRelatedKeywords.php' file from the v2009 client library examples with those additional parameters. It corrected the average monthly search volumes (to show only US volumes) but the global volumes stayed the same. Both of these numbers (the average and the global) are still too high. Using the same example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Local EXACT match: 2400 (API) vs 260 (KW Tool) It actually makes sense that this only changed the local numbers since we only added language and country parameters - the global numbers should not change regardless of the language and country, correct? Can anyone else verify my numbers and the variance in returns we are seeing between the API and the KW tool? Thanks - Brian On Jun 24, 3:30 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Brian, The difference is likely due to a difference in targeting. By default the Search-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIde... Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to return search volumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
Re: Difference in search volume between API and Keyword Tool?
Hi Brian, The difference is likely due to a difference in targeting. By default the Search-based Keyword Tool targets the results to your language and country (English and United States for example). The API on the other hand doesn't target the results by default, and will return the statistics for all languages and countries. To emulate the results of the keyword tool you need to include a LanguageTargetSearchParameter and CountryTargetSearchParameter. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIdeaService.CountryTargetSearchParameter.html http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/TargetingIdeaService.LanguageTargetSearchParameter.html Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team P.S. The GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter are only required if you want to limit the results to only ideas that have certain amounts of searches. If you just want to return those values you need only to include the GLOBAL_MONTHLY_SEARCHES and AVERAGE_TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES AttributeTypes respectively. On Jun 23, 5:59 pm, Brian Jensen bri.m@gmail.com wrote: Hello - We are using the TargetingIdeaService with the GlobalMonthlySearchesSearchParameter and the AverageTargetedMonthlySearchesSearchParameter with the STATS RequestType in order to return search volumes for specific keywords. When I compare these results with the AdWords Keyword Tool, I'm baffled as to why the volumes are so far apart. Example: twin air bed Global EXACT match: 2900 (API) vs 320 (KW Tool) Global PHRASE match: 6600 (API) vs 1000 (KW Tool) Global BROAD match: 33100 (API) vs 3600 (KW Tool) In reading previous posts, I understand that the API should more closely match the SK Tool results than the Keyword Tool but even this doesn't hold true. For the example above the SK Tool returns 190. Any ideas what we're doing wrong? Thank you - Brian -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
