When will RecommendationType include all (or most) recommendation types?

[Wijnand Meijer]

Hi there,

We did a cross-account analysis of the RecommendationType https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v9/RecommendationTypeEnum.RecommendationType and found that this value returns UNKNOWN 73% of the time. As you can see in the attachment, we performed this over lots of accounts.

The plan was to present our users with the most impactful recommendations, but that's quite impossible if 73% of the time the type is unknown. 

So my question is: when will all (or most) recommendation types be included, as listed over here https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/3416396?hl=en#zippy=%2Csee-all-recommendations ?

Is this expected in v10 of the Google Ads API (February/March)?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Wijnand,

Thank you for raising this to us. 

With regard to your concern, please do note that there's some recommendation on Google Ads UI which is not recognize on the Google Ads API side. If the said recommendation was not recognize/supported by the API, then it will returned with UNKNOWN value. With that all said, you may provide to us the list of recommendation type that are present on the UI, but return as UNKNOWN (along with complete request and response logs with request ID) on the API side, so I could submit this as a feature request to the team.

Regards,

Teejay Wennie Pimentel Google Ads API Team

 

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[Wijnand Meijer]

Hi Teejay,

I'm sure the team that works on the recommendations part of the API knows exactly which of the recommendations listed over here https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/3416396?hl=en#zippy=%2Csee-all-recommendations are currently returning UNKNOWN for  RecommendationType.

So I'm hoping that v10 of the API will provide a lot more insight into RecommendationType by returning less UNKNOWN, preferably released in order of impact. So if a RecommendationType usually has a high impact on the Optimization Score, showing this type through the API would have a high priority.

Thanks

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Wijnand,

I work with Teejay and will assist you. I raised with my team your request for all recommendation types. This request is subject to review. You may monitor our blog for an update.

Regards,

Aryeh Baker Google Ads API Team

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[Wijnand Meijer]

That would be great, thanks!