Re: Mobile target bid updates in API v201302 don't reflect in Adwords UI (java)

[Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords API Team)]

Hi, 

I am able to update the mobile bid adjustment using the Java library.

Can you share the request and response xmls? (Please remove the sensitive information such as authToken, developerToken)

Best,

- Takeshi

On Thursday, April 4, 2013 7:18:23 AM UTC+9, Julian Khandros wrote:

Hi,

we're migrating our Java AdWords campaign management module to v201302. Our code is required to disable bids for mobile devices. Hence I use code very similar to the Mobile Bid Adjustment code excerpt on https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/enhanced-campaigns :

// Create mobile platform. The ID can be found in the documentation.

// https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/platforms

Platform mobile = new Platform();

mobile.setId(30001L);

// Create criterion with bid modifier.

CampaignCriterion criterion = new CampaignCriterion();

criterion.setCampaignId(campaignId);

criterion.setCriterion(mobile);

criterion.setBidModifier(1.2); // 120%, or 20% more.

// Create SET operation.

CampaignCriterionOperation operation = new CampaignCriterionOperation();

operation.setOperator(Operator.SET);

operation.setOperand(criterion);

// Update campaign criteria.

CampaignCriterionReturnValue result = campaignCriterionService.mutate(new CampaignCriterionOperation[] { operation });

The SOAP request & response look correct - I see the correctly-populated bidModifier element and so on. However, when I subsequently view the campaign's device settings in the AdWords UI (i.e. in the browser at https://adwords.google.com/cm/CampaignMgmt?...) the "Mobile devices with full browsers" Bid adj. column is set to "--".  This is the case whether I pass a bidModifier of 0.0 or 1.2 (for example).

Does anyone know why this might be?  I can't think of any conflicting or overriding campaign settings that might come into play.

Thanks in advance,

Pete

[Oliver]

If your campaign is using Conversion Optimizer bidding strategy, you won't be able to change the bid modifier.

This is an exception I came across which is very poorly documented in the Enhanced Campaigns guide.  Check this page:

http://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2471188?hl=en

There is a line that says:

At this time, the following AdWords features aren't compatible with Conversion Optimizer:

All types of bid adjustments, except mobile device bid adjustments of -100%. 

Oliver