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Andrew Harry
Andrew Harry

Reputation: 13909

Does anyone use the Google Adwords API?

I have been using the Google Adwords API for sometime, and i am starting to suspect that i have made an assumption.

Does anyone know if the 'GetKeywordVariations' returns keywords in order of relevance?

Comparing various keywords and their results with the Adwords website equivalent and I am seeing many differences.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1454

Answers (2)

Chloe
Chloe

Reputation: 26264

Here is the section which describes how to match the results from the API with the results from the AdWords website. There are many search parameters you can set like location, language, etc. to help them align and match up results.

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/targeting-idea-service#mapping_to_the_keyword_planner

One of our most frequently asked questions around the TargetingIdeaService is: "Why do the TargetingIdeaService results differ from that of the Keyword Planner tool?"

The reason is that a TargetingIdeaSelector can be configured with a number of different SearchParameters, and the returned results may differ significantly when different SearchParameters are used.

It won't return keywords in any particular order, but it provides the search volume and you can decide if it is relevant:

Keyword idea with text 'toaster braun', category IDs (10009, 10410, 10412, 12798, 11566) and average monthly search volume '1900' was found.

This is for v201502.

Upvotes: 0

Mitch Wheat
Mitch Wheat

Reputation: 300489

According to the Google API doc:

EDIT: (the page I linked to, has more than one method described):

Given a list of SeedKeywords, returns their variations in multiple lists within KeywordVariations. Each list represents a different kind of variation.

Are you using the latest version of the API?

Upvotes: 2

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