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Problems with addKeywordList and addCreative

No keywords and all creatives in one AdGroup

         

StupidScript

10:18 pm on May 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I know it's a lot, but I'm maxing out my AdWords account campaigns testing this and getting no replies from the Google Groups API forum. Would someone please take a look? Here're my issue(s) with the KeywordService->addKeywordList and CreativeService->addCreative mechanisms:

While the campaign(s) are being created and the AdGroups are being created, the keywords are not being included in any of the campaigns and all of the creatives (1 per AdGroup) are ending up in the first AdGroup to be created, with the same data in each creative (not unique creatives in each AdGroup).

During execution, I am echoing the relevant data being sent to the API, and it is fully correct (what I want to send), however it's not making into the system that way. There are no errors ... I left a bunch of stuff out for (relative) clarity.

What's hard to understand from a programming perspective is that if I am sending verifiable data to the API, why is it getting stuck on the first dataset and not accepting the changed datasets? I'm sending the right AdGroup ID for each creative and set of keywords, there are no errors, the campaigns and adgroups are accessible from the MCC, and the AdGroup IDs in there are the same ones my echoes indicate are being sent with the addCreative and addKeywordList requests.

But ...

For my own notes, in case this thread isn't visited by anyone but me, here's the data I am sending, as echoed (redacted) during the execution of the attempts. Note that "Keyword added successfully" is my own echo of the single-element array sent to the WSDL, as are the creative texts. Following this "echos" note is a simulation of what ends up in my campaign ("actually in campaign when complete"). The echos are posted just before the call to the service executes, so that must be the data that's being sent ... and is not able to dislodge the first dataset that the service seems to be holding on to:

============== echos ==============
The id of the new campaign is 65___79 and the name is FL______-1: 200505.

Ad Group Alachua: 200505 was created successfully.

AdGroup ID: <adGroupId>225332749</adGroupI­d>
Desc 1: <description1>Alachua attorneys can</description1>
Dest URL:
<destinationUrl>http://www.mydomain.com/index.­html?source=GFLX00001</destinationUrl>
Keyword added successfully: <newKeywords><text>alachua florida
defense</text><type>Broad</typ­e></newKeywords>
Keyword added successfully: <newKeywords><text>alachua florida
attorney</text><type>Broad</ty­pe></newKeywords>

Ad Group Alford: 200505 was created successfully.

AdGroup ID: <adGroupId>225332779</adGroupI­d>
Desc 1: <description1>Alford attorneys can</description1>
Dest URL:
<destinationUrl>http://www.mydomain.com/index.­html?source=GFLX00043</destinationUrl>
Keyword added successfully: <newKeywords><text>alford florida
defense</text><type>Broad</typ­e></newKeywords>
Keyword added successfully: <newKeywords><text>alford florida
attorney</text><type>Broad</ty­pe></newKeywords>

Ad Group Alligator: 200505 was created successfully.

AdGroup ID: <adGroupId>225332809</adGroupI­d>
Desc 1: <description1>Alligator Point attorneys can</description1>
Dest URL:
<destinationUrl>http://www.mydomain.com/index.­html?source=GFLX00064</destinationUrl>
Keyword added successfully: <newKeywords><text>alligator point florida
defense</text><type>Broad</typ­e></newKeywords>
Keyword added successfully: <newKeywords><text>alligator point florida
attorney</text><type>Broad</ty­pe></newKeywords>
============== end echos ==============

============== actually in campaign when complete ==============
The id of the new campaign is 65___79 and the name is FL______-1: 200505.

Ad Group Alachua: 200505 was created successfully.

AdGroup ID: <adGroupId>225332749</adGroupI­d>
Desc 1: <description1>Alachua attorneys can</description1>
Dest URL:
<destinationUrl>http://www.mydomain.com/index.­html?source=GFLX00001</destinationUrl>

AdGroup ID: <adGroupId>225332749</adGroupI­d>
Desc 1: <description1>Alachua attorneys can</description1>
Dest URL:
<destinationUrl>http://www.mydomain.com/index.­html?source=GFLX00001</destinationUrl>

AdGroup ID: <adGroupId>225332749</adGroupI­d>
Desc 1: <description1>Alachua attorneys can</description1>
Dest URL:
<destinationUrl>http://www.mydomain.com/index.­html?source=GFLX00001</destinationUrl>

Ad Group Alford: 200505 was created successfully.

Ad Group Alligator: 200505 was created successfully.
============== end actually in campaign ==============

Thanks in advance for any thoughts. (I really am reading everything I can find on these errors and issues, but there's not much out there.)