Negative values seen for average position

[Rob]

Hi,

I've just filed a bug report with AdWords help after seeing negative values for average position arriving in this morning's report data.  This has never happened before (that I know of) and seems to be a general change in AdWords because the same value shows in the AdWords web interface.

The first example I found was in data for 4th March, which didn't flag a problem when it was imported yesterday.  This keyword now has one impression with an average position of -1.

Just thought I'd mention it, as it will probably cause similar problems for others on this forum.  If anyone can shed some light on the reasons for it, I'd be grateful.

[Anash P. Oommen]

Hi Rob,

Could you mail the details (report type, definition xml, account id) to anash.p...@google.com? I can investigate this further.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

[rp]

Hi,

We have the same issue, for several accounts we are getting negative impressions, clicks and costs in reports for yesterday.

[j.e.frank]

We also see some records with -1 impressions.  It started at around 10 PM eastern time yesterday (March 5th).  It's messing with our system since we have unsigned data types, on the assumption that negative impressions, clicks, etc would not be possible.

[Tyler Dumont]

We are seeing this as well, and it's breaking our processing because it violates some assumptions.

[Daniel Bergholm]

We are experiencing the same problem. We are getting a lot of rows with negative impressions (the ones I have seen have "-1" impressions) for the last couple of days. 

We too have modelled our data representation on the assumption that these values cannot be negative, so it breaks our processing.

[j.e.frank]

Google,

Any update on this issue?

[Kevin Winter]

Hi,

  There was a known issue where stats collection/processing were not functioning properly for a few days.  The negative numbers were the results of spam detection operations subtracting a click or impression, but there were zero impressions/clicks processed for that period.  We believe we have re-processed all outstanding data (which was not lost, merely not visible) and stats should be returned to normal as of today.  We apologize for the trouble this has caused.

- Kevin Winter

AdWords API Team

[David Bonner]

We're seeing this again this morning, in impressions on geo performance reports.  Anyone else seeing it?

[Kevin Winter]

Hi,

  We're not aware of any issue on our side that would be causing this.  Is this still occuring for you?  Could you please provide some more details regarding exactly what account and what ReportDefinition XML you are using?  I'd like to try to reproduce if this is still an issue for you.

- Kevin Winter

AdWords API Team

[David Bonner]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply.  This issue went away...I believe some time later that day.

-Dave

[Ronald Findling]

We are still receiving negative impressions (-1 or -2) from the Shopping_Performance_Report when checking historic data (mostly on 2017.03.09 and 2017.03.10).

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi Ronald,

Could you please provide your 10 digit AdWords account ID and the SOAP XML report definition? Please click on Reply privately to author when responding. 

Regards,
Vishal, AdWords API Team

[Ronald Findling]

Since yesterday night it looks like negative impression are being returned for a lot of our accounts.