Example: Give 1 US$ for keyword 'diabetes' and you get 960 clicks per day for 'all languages/all countries'. The point is that you get the same number if you restrict to e.g. 'german/germany'.
That means a very unpleasant bias in our traffic estimates of German users (international terms get far to much weight relative to german ones)!
Thanks for the heads up.
I've consulted with some folks here, and find that work is underway to correct this. I'm not able to pinpoint a time frame, but please know that this will be addressed.
AWA
(PS: Since I see that you are new to the forum, I should probably mention that I work at Google, and have been with with the AdWords team for a bit over two years. I post on WebmasterWorld with the kind permission of the site owner, Brett_Tabke, and the moderators of the AdWords forum.)
I've been browsing through the AdWords forum for some time now and it has always been very helpful. I hope to contribute in the future. Great resource!
Any news on when the traffic estimator will be fixed?
I am very reluctant to pin down an actual and precise date, zgb999, since I might turn out to be wrong. And I do so hate to disappoint.
So here is my slightly fuzzy answer: This issue should be addressed soon, perhaps as early as this evening.
AWA (now consulting lucky charm...) ;)
At least I know it should not take weeks to solve the problem. I have enough experience in IT to know how difficult it is to say when a problem is fixed...
I see the same numbers for "all languages/all countries" as before and reasonable numbers now if I restrict data to a single country.
AWA, is it stable now? Can we work with it?
Any news on when it will be possible to do new campaigns for a specific language / location again?
zgb999, I've just had a conversation with the tech folks about your query.
They tell me that they believe this glitch to be resolved - so, would you please check again and see what results you get? (BTW, any chance you might be getting a cached page? You may want to clear your cache to be on the safe side.)
If you're still getting the same estimates for global vs. individual country targetting, then would you please write from within your account with the details - along with a note requesting that the info be passed on the tech team?
They'd be interested in exploring this further.
AWA
To show what I mean I looked up the clicks per day for auto:
- All languages/countries: 12.000,0
- German/all countries: 12.000,0
- German/only Switzerland: 12.000,0
Anybody else seeing this kind of behaviour?
Now, I see reasonable 160 clicks for german/switzerland.
Maybe the adwords server is a server farm of distict hosts with slightly different data content? So we contact a different server each time we request, sometimes one with the old data, sometimes one with the new data?
So, do we have to wait until a kind of Google AdWords server dance is completed?
