MSN adCenter Pilot

Importing keywords into Orders

[corbing]

We are playing around with the new MSN adCenter right now and I'm hoping someone out there has found a better way to import keywords (or that they fix it).

Right now, it appears when you are in the keywords area for an Order and try to import from a file it will kick out the entire file if there are duplicates - even if the "duplicates" are expanded. For example, if we have "widget" and "widgets" in the file, it gives you an error. We're trying to import thousands of keywords and it's just about impossible to clean up these files to something that adCenter will accept. Am I missing something here?

Also, I've only found a way to import keywords into a specific Order within a Campaign. There's no way to import keywords across multiple Orders, right?

The Import From Clipboard was also really confusing since it has nothing to do with importing from your Windows clipboard (took me a while to figure that one out).

After so much time with AdWords and Overture/Yahoo, this is difficult to get used to working with.

[ipohopper]

I had the same problem with duplicates. Luckily I didn't have too many but I would have to manually remove them from my import file and try again.

Never used the clipboard option.

One good thing is that the import is VERY fast compared to adwords. I can import 2000 keywords in 5 seconds. With adwords I would have to break them up in to smaller batches.