We outsource the management of our Google AdWords account. Although we understand the interface ourselves, we just don't have the time to manage it, and thought we might also benefit from a pro's added experience. However, looking at the My Change History page, the only changes I see are '1 Max CPC changed' on each Ad Group - almost a...
What is the difference between: Google Keyword Tool and Google Search-Based Keyword Tool For example, when I search for "photo editing", I get completely two different Google report for number of monthly searches: 1,500,000 vs 54,000. Why does Google reporting two different number for exact keywords? Any idea? ...
What are the best practices for calling Google Adword's conversion tracking code from Flex? All Google gives is javascript that is meant to be inserted in an html page. But with Flex, there is only one html page and I only want to call the conversion tracking code when a certain UI action happens in the Flex app. Any thoughts are appre...
Hi, I'm building a Rails app that does conversion tracking on outside sites. I'd like to allow users to paste an image tag in their conversion pages (like AdWords), and whenever that image is requested, a conversion registers in my app. respond_to do |format| if @conversion.save flash[:notice] = 'Conversion was successfully creat...
I would like to create a simple online service, that needs AdWords API access to do some keyword search. The subscribers of my service would have to provide their AdWords API developer key and token and so on .. to use all the features of my service. This way our server would connect to the AdWords API server, would collect all the nec...
In the latest version of the Adwords API, Google announced the availability of the Bid Simulator (i.e. the ability to get estimated clicks, cost, and ad position). However, I can't find any example code for this. Can anyone provide an example of how to lookup clicks, cost, and ad position given a keyword, match type, and max cpc using ...
I'm attempting to use the Adwords API to lookup the daily clicks and est. CPC for a keyword, however using the example code in the v201003 code, I can never seem to get a bid landscape to return anything. Here's my code... any ideas? PS: I have no problem getting targeting ideas, which is really annoying to be able to get values for ...
Are there any methods to get the stats for keywords and ads with a higher detail? I would like to get them every x hours, but the api allows ranges within days, not any shorter. Ive heard that Google updates the stats only once a day ...
I'm trying to track my AdWords campaigns through to the final conversion. However, the conversion happens offsite, in a separate session. Many of the conversions are being attributed to that external site, where in reality, the referrer was really the AdWords campaign. Currently, Analytics is properly catching only about 60% of the conve...
I have some banner ads in AS3 that I need to make work with Google adWords. I am told AS3 is not supported and there are no immediate plans to.... help! ...
Hi, We'd like to implement a tracking system that logs which trial version signups to our website are originating from which google adwords campaign. I know that theres a glcid parameter if auto-tagging is enabled. But how can I reverse-lookup some info on the gclid that was used? For example, it would be very useful to know the searc...
I've recently been asked to run an adwords campaign. I have no clue how to charge for this. Do I charge monthly/weekly? Do I charge a % of their budget? Do I charge for the setup cost? Do i charge based on the number of keywords? ...
Hi, Is it possible to programmatically download an AdWords report (containing information about campaign and keyword performance like impressions, clicks, CTR, etc.) without logging in to the AdWords web site? I'm aware that they provide an API, but it appears that you have to be approved, and I don't need all the services -- just basi...
Hi All, Ive just released a silverlight website and Im trying to spread the word to get the ball rolling. Does anyone have any advice on SEO for Silverlight or other means to get the word out about me website. Thanks ...
Hi guys, I am going around in circles a bit with this one trying to find a solution online and I cant find one so I thought I would ask then it may be useful to others as well. The scenario. With PHP I am looking to talk back to the Google Adwords API. OK not a biggy. However I want to tie it in with our own back office system to marr...
I am having to use the Google AdWords API for a project, I have large chunks working but I am getting frustrated with the documentation. For example I know that a TextAd headline field has a limit of 25 characters and can't have things like ! and ? in it. The documentation makes no mention of it though: http://code.google.com/apis/adword...
Can anyone suggest a good tool for helping us decide on some long tail terms for using as google adwords? All the best ...
I am building a tool that needs to retrieve all of an Adwords user's keywords. When I test this tool, it performs as expected about 1/2 the time, retrieving all of a user's keywords. For the other half, when I send my SOAP request to the Adwords API, I receive a valid response from the API (I.E. no error is reported) with 0 keywords. ...