How to link AdWords to a specific GMB Business account

[Kevin]

Hi,

A Google My Business account can have multiple "Business" accounts. Is it possible to configure AdWords to only sync location extensions from a specific "Business" account in a GMB?

We are concerning that if a GMB account is used to manage location extensions for multiple merchants, a merchant can change his or her own filters on AdWords that can effectively sync locations that belong to other merchants.

Thanks!

[Ivan Bautista]

Hi Kevin,

If you want to specify a particular GMB account you want to sync location extensions from, you can try to specify the GMB Account ID in the businessAccountIdentifier attribute when configuring the PlacesLocationFeedData. Here is a sample implementation (available in other languages) for your reference.

As for your other concern, do note that setting and updating merchant information via AdWords API is not possible.

Let me know if I misunderstood your question.

Regards,

Ivan 

AdWords API Team

[Kevin]

Hi Ivan,

Where can I find the GMB Account ID? Is it the name field of the account object in GMB API (https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/v3/accounts#Account)?

Thanks!

[Ivan Bautista]

Hi Kevin, 

As per documentation, you can get the account ID from the account_id portion of the name of the Account. However, we only handle the AdWords API part of the integration so it would be best to confirm with the Google My Business API team as they are more equipped to answer that query.

[Kevin]

Hi Ivan,

We received the error below when specifying the businessAccountIdentifier.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

  <soap:Header>

    <ResponseHeader xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201609">

      <requestId>00054b5323cb9aa10a620d0e3d0b515c</requestId>

      <serviceName>FeedService</serviceName>

      <methodName>mutate</methodName>

      <operations>1</operations>

      <responseTime>510</responseTime>

    </ResponseHeader>

  </soap:Header>

  <soap:Body>

    <soap:Fault>

      <faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>

      <faultstring>[InternalApiError.UNEXPECTED_INTERNAL_API_ERROR @ com.google.ads.api.services.common.error.InternalApiError.&lt;init&gt;(InternalApiErro]</faultstring>

      <detail>

        <ApiExceptionFault xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201609">

          <message>[InternalApiError.UNEXPECTED_INTERNAL_API_ERROR @ com.google.ads.api.services.common.error.InternalApiError.&lt;init&gt;(InternalApiErro]</message>

          <ApplicationException.Type>ApiException</ApplicationException.Type>

          <errors xsi:type="InternalApiError" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

            <fieldPath/>

            <trigger/>

            <errorString>InternalApiError.UNEXPECTED_INTERNAL_API_ERROR</errorString>

            <ApiError.Type>InternalApiError</ApiError.Type>

            <reason>UNEXPECTED_INTERNAL_API_ERROR</reason>

          </errors>

        </ApiExceptionFault>

      </detail>

    </soap:Fault>

  </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Please let us know if you need the SOAP request. We don't want to include it here because it contains sensitive information.

Thanks!

[Ivan Bautista]

Hi Kevin,

Yes, you may reply to us privately (using reply privately to author option) with your SOAP request logs so we can further investigate. Also, were you able to confirm and verify with the Google My Business API team the account id you used?

[pinkesh...@gmail.com]

hi Kevin,

how can i link GMB account with google ads account. is there any API available for this please let me know.

Thanks

Pinkesh

[Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Pinkesh,

You will be able to link GMB account with Google Ads account by creating the required feed objects. Please refer this section of guide for the steps. If you have any further questions, could you please open a new thread for better tracking purposes?

Regards,
Dhanya, AdWords API Team