AdWords API Latest search engine news blog articles from AdWords API. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/AdWords+API.html AdWords API News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12261 We're happy to announce the release of the AdWords API version 13 (v13)! V13 introduces several changes to the AdWords API; we've highlighted the main points below. For a complete list of v13 changes, please see our release notes . V13 Highlights New geotargeting options: Target multiple geographic levels (countries, regions, metro areas, and cities) within a single campaign, target specific regions of multiple countries in a single campaign, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:58:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11828 Welcome to part 5 of the series of posts that will give tips and tricks on how to deal with SOAP issues. As a SOAP-based web service, AdWords API can be easy to make calls to. At the same time, it can sometimes be difficult to debug the SOAP faults. In our previous episode , we discussed SOAP errors related to failed validations. Today we'll discuss SOAP errors related to syncing errors and concurrent changes . You can find links to our earlier posts here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:12:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11676 We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, September 13 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PDT. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal. Cheers, -Jeffrey Posnick, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:08:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10773 Cutting API calories from your app One of the questions we often get asked by developers is how to spend fewer API units; if you're not careful, you might end up wasting a lot unnecessarily. Thankfully, you should be able to curb your software's appetite with a few simple suggestions: - Two ways to get there Do you run a lot of campaigns across your client accounts? If so, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:39:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9609 We want to give developers a heads-up about an upcoming change affecting AdWords reports. If you retrieve reports via the AdWords API's getReportDownloadUrl() or getGzipReportDownloadUrl() method then these changes may potentially affect the data in your reports. These changes impact a small number of columns and should not fundamentally change the way you parse report data. We plan on rolling out these changes on Tuesday, August 19 . Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:05:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=8221 As you could imagine, Google has a lot of historical data about keywords and the traffic they generate. Harnessing this data can give you a helpful starting point when you're trying to choose cost-per-click (CPC) bid ranges and keywords for a new product, for which you have no historical keyword or bid data in your own account. AdWords API users can access our trove of historical keyword and bid data via the Traffic Estimator Service , Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:25:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6135 We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, May 17 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal. Cheers, -Jeffrey Posnick, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 13 May 2008 19:39:53 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4952 We are happy to announce the release of the AdWords API Version 12 (V12). V12 introduces several changes to the AdWords API. Below, you'll find the main highlights from this release. For a complete list of V12 changes, please see our release notes . V12 HIGHLIGHTS Conversion Optimizer support: Now you can enable Conversion Optimizer to pay only when an ad click leads to a conversion to adjust cost-per-acquisition bids through the AdWords API . Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:23:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3500 We are happy to announce the release of our new Python client library . The AdWords API Python Client Library makes it easier to write Python clients to programmatically access AdWords accounts. Main features include: the ability to hide the SOAP layer from end users, on demand logging of all SOAP messages, support for API calls against the production system or sandbox, automatic data type conversion for all API call parameters, tracking of all API usage, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:13:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1233 Based on your feedback, we have developed a new report type designed specifically for API developers -the Account Structure report. This new report type allows you to download all of your account attributes (without statistics) from a single report, saving everyone time and API units. The Account Structure report is available immediately through the new DefinedReportJob object (introduced in version 11), and can be aggregated at the campaign, ad group, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:56:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1252 We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday from approximately 10am to 2pm PST. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:57:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1242 We're planning to refresh the Sandbox tomorrow, Wednesday October 31, at 3 p.m. PDT. As a result, it will be unavailable for several hours and all the data will be cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a clientEmail. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:40:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1232 Some of you have pointed out a bug in v11 reports causing the omission of certain ID columns. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our engineers are working to resolve this problem within the next few days. We will let you know as soon as the bug is fixed. UPDATE We would like to let you know that this bug has now been fixed. - Borana Toska, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:16:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1238 Aaron Karp, AdWords API Team Version 11 of the AdWords API includes a significant overhaul to the way you schedule reports and the data you are able to retrieve. In the reconfigured Report Service, you now have access to most of the report types and columns that are available through the AdWords Report Center, which means more advanced stats and breakdowns than ever before. Going forward, the API should be much more synchronized with the AdWords front end, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:41:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1240 We've rescheduled this month's system maintenance for Saturday from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API specifically during this period, but your ads will continue to run as normal. Brian Kennish, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:16:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1241 We are happy to announce the release of the AdWords API Version 11 (V11). V11 introduces several changes to the AdWords API. Below, you'll find the main highlights from this release. For a complete list of V11 changes, please see our release notes . V11 HIGHLIGHTS New, flexible report interface : The report interface has changed in v11 to add flexibility to the reports you can schedule. By no longer providing a specific ReportJob object for each report type, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:11:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1251 We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API specifically during this period, but your ads will continue to run as normal. Update: tomorrow's AdWords maintenance has been canceled and will likely happen next Saturday instead. Brian Kennish, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:14:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1234 We'll be performing routine system maintenance this Saturday from approximately 10am to 2pm PST. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API during this time, but your ads will continue to run as normal. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1253 We're planning to refresh the Sandbox this Friday at 4 p.m. PDT. As a result, it will be unavailable for several hours and all the data will be cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a clientEmail header block. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:40:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1235 Due to some technical issues, we've decided to delay the release of v11 (originally planned for this week) for a few more weeks. While we could release some components of v11 now, we feel it is better to delay the entire release in order to minimize the number of versions we launch in a year. However, please note that v9 will still be sunset on September 10, 2007 . Therefore, please make sure you have upgraded your applications to v10 by this date. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:34:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1231 Late last night our engineers were able to implement the upgrades that were originally scheduled for this Saturday's maintenance period . Therefore, we have canceled this weekend's system maintenance. All systems will remain operational and available. - Jon Diorio, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:52:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1250 We will be performing unscheduled AdWords maintenance from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. PT on Saturday, August 25, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. -Jon Diorio, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:46:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1237 Over the past few weeks we have tested and implemented server enhancements that enable us to drive greater efficiencies from some of our more costly operations. Therefore, we are happy to announce the following rate sheet reductions: addAds = 125 units (formerly 250) addCriteria = 25 units (formerly 50) These changes will take effect immediately. And as always, we encourage all developers to use list methods whenever possible (e.g. addCampaignList ). Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:55:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1230 We plan to release V11 of the AdWords API during the week of August 20. This is the same week we were planning to sunset V9 . Since we understand that some of you may prefer to upgrade directly from V9 to V11, we have decided to delay the v9 sunset by three weeks. Therefore, V9 will now be sunset on September 10. - Jon Diorio, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:11:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1247 Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API specifically during this time, but your ads will continue to run as normal. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:57:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1244 Just a reminder' per our announcement on April 20 , we will shutdown version 9 of the API on August 20. Please make sure to migrate your applications to version 10 by August 20. You can find more information about these versions (including the release notes) at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/developer/index.html . - Jon Diorio, Product Marketing UPDATE as of Aug 7, 2007 We plan to release V11 of the AdWords API during the week of August 20. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:46:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1248 Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs We're planning to refresh the Sandbox again tomorrow at 3 p.m. PDT. As a result, it'll be unavailable for several hours and all associated data cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a clientEmail header block. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:59:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1229 The Campaign Access bug we reported earlier today was fixed at approximately 5pm PST. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused you, and thank you for your patience. - Jon Diorio, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:19:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1246 On Tuesday, July 24, we released some bug fixes that unfortunately prevented some advertisers from modifying campaigns that leverage the 'position preference' and 'preferred cost bidding' features. Our engineers diagnosed the issue yesterday and we plan to correct the issue today. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and will notify you as soon as a fix is in place. - Jon Diorio, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:16:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1249 We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT on Saturday, July 14, 2007. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform API operations during this maintenance period. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:55:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1245 Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs One of the shiny, new features exposed in v8 of the AdWords API is local business ads. Local business ads aren't your typical ad fare, so we thought we'd properly introduce you to them and how they work with the API. What Are They? Local business ads let you reach users looking for products and services locally, like pizza in London. They appear as enhanced text ads and map markers on Google Maps . E.g. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:37:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1239 Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad* APIs We're planning to do our regular refresh of the AdWords API Sandbox tomorrow at 3 p.m. PDT. As a result, it'll be unavailable for several hours and all associated data cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwards by sending any valid request to the Sandbox without a clientEmail header block. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:59:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1236 Just a reminder' per our announcement on March 15 , we will shutdown Version 8 of the API on July 9. Please make sure to migrate your applications to version 9 or 10 by July 9. You can find more information about these versions (including the release notes) at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/developer/index.html . - Jon Diorio, Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:47:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1243 Based on feedback from many of our beta testers, we have made the IncludeZeroImpression field in KeywordReportJob and CustomReportJob accessible to all developers. Previously, this field was restricted to beta testers. Please note that very large reports that include zero impression rows may fail (indicated by error code 112). If your report fails as a result of enabling this option, try breaking subsequent reports down into smaller queries/reports. Search Engines News SEO News AdWords API AdWords API Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:50:00 GMT