TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES giving very high numbers

[Mark Edmondson]

Hello! 

I have looked on-line and double-checked but can not see why I get so high numbers when requesting search volume for the past 12 months - could anyone see where I am going wrong?

Via Python I am sending in this selector:

[
   {
      'xsi_type':'RelatedToQuerySearchParameter',
      'queries':['iih']
   
   },
   {
      'xsi_type':'NetworkSearchParameter',
      'networkSetting':{
         'targetGoogleSearch':True,
         'targetSearchNetwork':False,
         'targetContentNetwork':False,
         'targetPartnerSearchNetwork':False
       }
   
   },
   {
      'xsi_type':'LocationSearchParameter',
      'locations':[
         {
            'id':'2208'
         }
      ]
   },
   {
      'xsi_type':'LanguageSearchParameter',
      'languages':[
         {
            'id':'1009'
         }
      ]
   }
],
'ideaType':'KEYWORD',
'requestType':'STATS',
'requestedAttributeTypes':[
   'TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES'
],
'paging':{
   'startIndex':'0',
   'numberResults':'700'
},
'localeCode':'da-DK',
'currencyCode':'DKK'
}

This outputs search volumes such as 2019-11 being count: 8389209 which is waaay too high.  When I look in the keyword planner the figure is 320.

The full output is below:

{"totalNumEntries": 1, "entries": [{"data": [{"key": "TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES", "value": {"Attribute.Type": "MonthlySearchVolumeAttribute", "value": [{"year": 2020, "month": 1, "count": 8798923}, {"year": 2019, "month": 12, "count": 497369}, {"year": 2019, "month": 11, "count": 8389209}, {"year": 2019, "month": 10, "count": 6941809}, {"year": 2019, "month": 9, "count": 961573}, {"year": 2019, "month": 8, "count": 5092042}, {"year": 2019, "month": 7, "count": 7217108}, {"year": 2019, "month": 6, "count": 4343678}, {"year": 2019, "month": 5, "count": 182645}, {"year": 2019, "month": 4, "count": 8092689}, {"year": 2019, "month": 3, "count": 177547}, {"year": 2019, "month": 2, "count": 9055041}]}}]}]}

Any ideas on where I'm going wrong?  I've double checked the language and location codes and they look ok (Denmark, Danish)

Yours sincerely,

Mark

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Mark,

Can you please provide your client customer ID and your complete detailed request and response logs via Reply privately to author? You can find information on enabling logging here.

Regards,
Mitchell
Google Ads API Team

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[Mark Edmondson]

Thanks Mitchell and others - I worked it out. 

It was calling a Test Google Ads account.  Once I switched to a non-test account the numbers all make sense.

Yours sincerely,

Mark