Keyword Idea Service - Get Value of Seed Keywords too

[Daniel Alvarado]

Hello, 

We're trying to use the Keyword Idea Service to get the Avg. Monthly Searches for a set of ideas. The service works great when we just use the website as a seed. However, when we provide a keyword as a seed (https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201809/TargetingIdeaService.RelatedToQuerySearchParameter), then the resulting ideas never seem to include the word we provided. 

Example, if I use "dentist near me" as a seed, I get relevant keyword ideas, but none of the ideas are exactly "dentist near me" on the API response. On the Web UI however, I do get both (the ideas, and the value for the keyword I supplied). See screenshot below. I would like to know how I can make sure the resulting ideas contain the seed keyword (or keywords). Is this possible? 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for reaching out. If you put the keyword seeds in the included string array of the type field IdeaTextFilterSearchParameter, you would be able to get the results for these keyword seeds you input as well. Please let me know if you have any further concerns.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team

 

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