Webpage as Negative Campaign Criteria, created in API, where to find in UI

[Matthew Wawrin]

Hi,

I know this isn't the best spot, but figured I'd ask here as a start since I did create the object through the API.  If there's a UI forum out there, please let me know (i did try to find it)!

We want to exclude showing display network ads on a particular website, lets say XYZ.com.  I'm creating a negative campaign criterion with a website criteria, who's parameter operand is URL, and argument is XYZ.com.   They are created successfully and I get an Id back, as well I can see in the campaign history in the web UI that the website exclusion was created.

However, I can't for the life of me see the setting (under settings, display network->placements, etc).  Do these campaign exclusions show up in the UI??   Is there a way to verify that this exclusion is effective?

An example campaign id, 795619121

Thanks,
Matt.

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Matt, 

You can see the NegativeCampaignCriterion of type Webpage in the Campaign level exclusions in the Auto targets tab in the UI for your Search campaigns. Please see this help center article for more details on exclusions in your dynamic search campaigns. You can post in the AdWords Community Forum for any UI related questions. 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

[Matthew Wawrin]

Hi,  Thank you for the reply.  I should have been more specific, this is for our display network campaigns.

I'll post on the community forum.

Thank you,

Matt

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Matt, 

My mistake. You need to use the Placement criterion to exclude placements from your Display network campaigns. The Webpage criterion is used to exclude ad targets in your dynamic search campaigns. Please see the criteria usage document. These placement exclusions will be available in the "Campaign placement exclusions" in the Display network->Placements tab. Regardless, the campaign negative Webpage criterion will be visible in the Auto targets tab.

[Matthew Wawrin]

Hi Shwetha,

The 'criteria usage document' link you have doesn't work.   I did find https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/criteria-usage which I've come across before.  I see that the webpage criterion seems to be only available for search at the adgroup level?  Is that correct? 

It's too bad that the API doesn't generate an error when trying to create a webpage criteria at the campaign level for a display campaign.  We've created this now over a few thousand campaigns.   

Thank you again for the help, I'll plug away with placements !

Matt