Duplicate keywords created during manual keyword migration to upgraded URLs

[Chris Allan]

Hi Guys,

A week ago we performed manual migration of our keywords to the new Upgraded URLs. As the AdWords guide stated https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/upgraded-urls in 'Strategy 1: Direct copy' we set the values we wanted for the url in the finalUrl field, we set the destinationUrl field to an empty string, and we performed an update on the keywords using Operator.SET.

This has seemingly resulted in the creation of duplicate keywords. Looking at the AdWords Web UI everything appears as I would expect, the same amount of keywords in an ad group as before, with the final destination url now set. However if I download a Keyword Performance Report via the API for the same ad group, I see that it returns duplicate Keywords - pairs of keywords with the same keyword ID, where one has the Final URL value set, and where one has a blank value in the Final URL field.

This is causing issues for our application which bases it's actions on the keywords returned via these reports. How can we remove these 'duplicate keywords' or download a report with only the one version - with the Final URL set (or in some cases we will still have keywords that have no URL set).

Any advice or further information would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hey Chris,

You could try to filter the destination URLs out by adding a predicate that says, 'WHERE CriteriaDestinationUrl = " "'. This should hopefully not include duplicate keywords.

Regards,

Anthony

AdWords API Team