Exact historical monthly search volume from KeywordPlanIdeaService?

[Joy Yu]

Hey all,

Was wondering if it was possible to get historical search volume by month for each keyword idea in KeywordPlanIdeaService rather than the average monthly searches. Pretty much what TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES produces in TargetingIdeaService, but instead for KeywordPlanIdeaService.

Thanks!

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Joy,

Thank you for reaching out. You could use the KeywordPlanService.GenerateHistoricalMetrics to generate the historical metrics specific to the targeting options selected, including geographies, network, etc. The MonthlySearchVolume is the counterpart for TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES returned from TargetingIdeaService via the AdWords API. Please refer to this guide on how to generate historical metrics via the Google Ads API.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team

Xiaoming Google Ads API Team

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[Joy Yu]

Hi Xiaoming,

Thanks for the references, I was wondering though if it was possible to get the MonthlySearchVolume without creating keyword plans? I think TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES bypasses creating keyword plans.

Thanks,

Joy

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Joy,

Thank you for the follow up. I work with Xiaoming and allow me to assist you.

Generating historical metrics would require a keyword plan as outlined in the steps here. For historical metrics, the forecast_period is the field that would not be needed. I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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On 06/04/2021, 'Joy Yu' via AdWords API and Google Ads API Forum

<adwor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Hi Xiaoming,
>
> Thanks for the references, I was wondering though if it was possible to get
>
> the MonthlySearchVolume without creating keyword plans? I think
> TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES bypasses creating keyword plans.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joy
>
> On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at 3:47:04 PM UTC-4 adsapiforumadvisor wrote:
>
>> Hi Joy,
>>
>> Thank you for reaching out. You could use the
>> KeywordPlanService.GenerateHistoricalMetrics

>> <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v6/KeywordPlanService#generatehistoricalmetrics>

>>
>> to generate the historical metrics specific to the targeting options
>> selected, including geographies, network, etc. The MonthlySearchVolume

>> <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v6/KeywordPlanHistoricalMetrics#monthly_search_volumes[]>

>>
>> is the counterpart for TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES returned from
>> TargetingIdeaService via the AdWords API. Please refer to this guide

>> <https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/keyword-planning/generate-historical-metrics>

>>
>> on how to generate historical metrics via the Google Ads API.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team
>>
>> [image: Google Logo]
>> Xiaoming
>> Google Ads API Team
>>
>>

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[Joy Yu]

Hi Peter,

I plan to have a script that iterates through ~20K keywords, grabbing their historical monthly volumes. Wouldn't it be unsustainable for me to create ~20K keyword plans? Any other options here?

Thanks,

Joy

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Joy,

Unfortunately, a keyword plan would be required as mentioned in this section, when generating the (historical) metrics.

You can opt to use the BatchJobService for creating keyword plans in bulk, since the KeywordPlanOperation is included in the list of supported mutate operations of this service.

[Joy Yu]

Hi Peter,

Is there a limit to how many keyword plans a Google Ads account can have? 

And the script I would have would: create a keyword plan, create a keyword plan campaign, create a keyword plan ad group, create a keyword plan ad group keyword, generate historical metrics.

Do each of these steps count as 1 operation to the daily 10,000 limit on basic accounts?

Thanks,

Joy

[Joy Yu]

Also, how many keywords can I have in a keyword plan?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Joy,

Thank you for reaching out. The max number of saved keyword plans is 10000. It's possible to remove plans if the limit is reached. The max number of keyword plan keywords per plan is also 10000. And each of these steps you mentioned would count as one operation thus you could consider updating your access level to Standard access via this form to have unlimited operations per day.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team
 

Xiaoming Google Ads API Team

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[Jabez Tadesse]

Does this still hold true in 2023?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to us.

Yes, the maximum number of KeywordPlan per account is 10000 still holds true in 2023. I would suggest you to check our API Limits and Quotas document for more information on limits related to keyword plans. Hope this helps.
 

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Google Ads API Team