Hello Mark,
If there is truth to that, it's not something that I'm aware of. My
area of expertise is really limited to how the AdWords API interacts
with AdWords objects in general, and not so much the inner workings of
AdWord's performance models.
So if you're scoring at home, that's a non-an
Hi Jeff,
As much as I don't like to rely on rumors, I know some people that
insist that you can recreate a keyword by simply creating a new
keyword with the same text and matchtype, and that the new keyword
would have the same criterionId and historical performance data - is
there any truth to tha
Hello Tim(s),
I believe that the motivation behind having the Deleted keyword
status is, as suggested, because it can be relevant to report
historical information about keywords that are now deleted. But to the
best of my knowledge, it's not possible to undelete a keyword, and
they won't normall
BTW, things can actually get quite screwy if you get statistics from
long long ago.
I have a situation where I have ids with statistics (and their
container ids) for accounts/campaigns/adgroups/everything, that I
cannot get any info for.. It is quite a mystery actually.
For a while, for the thos
Actually I have seen that caution note before and it made me think
that there must be a difference between the API and the web
interface. Otherwise if deletion were always permanent, then why
would there be the need for a "DELETED" keyword status? And I have
seen keywords be returned in a zero i
Hello Tim,
My understanding is that deletion of criteria objects is treated
differently from deletion of ads, ad groups, or campaigns. This should
be the case regardless of whether the deletion is done via the web
interface, AdWords Editor, or the AdWords API. As per the
documentation for the re
