Changes to Account-level Conversion Settings?

[srohde]

When the converted clicks metric is deprecated in September 2016, what will happen to the conversionOptimizerMode element of the account-level ConversionTrackingSetting?  How will the AdWords UI change?

See attached annotated screen shot.

Thanks!

Steve

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi Steve,

Unfortunately, we cannot comment on how this deprecation will affect future versions of the API yet. If you would like to know how it will affect the UI, you could contact the AdWords Community Forum.

Regards,

Anthony

AdWords API Team

[srohde]

Hi Anthony,

I'm only concerned about the impact of converted clicks depreciation on the current (v201606) and sunset (v201605 & v201605) versions of the AdWords API.

When the converted clicks metric is deprecated, will the behaviour of the ConversionTrackingSettings change in any way? 

For example, if our tool attempts to set conversionOptimizerMode to ONE_PER_CLICK, will the API return an error?
Or will it return no error and set conversionOptimizerModeto MANY_PER_CLICK by default?

Or, something else?

Any information you can provide that will help us avoid unexpected API usage problems would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Steve

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Steve,

The only changes I've heard of so far were to reporting in that many of the ConvertedClicks fields were replaced as mentioned in the release notes. I'll check with one of my teammates who worked on these changes just to be sure there weren't any additional changes in behavior in this version, and I'll get back to you.

Cheers,

Nadine, AdWords API Team

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Steve,

We've recently put out a blog post about what will be changing. Please check it out.

Best,

Nadine, AdWords API Team