Getting different volume of search (API vs Keyword planner)

[Eliav Lankri]

Hello

We're using the Ads API to get volume of search for terms by country.

But the issue is that we're getting totally differet numbers from the Keyword planner. What could be the issue? or what the Dev should check?

gbp to usd calculator (United Kingdom)

Keyword Planner: 720

Our tool/Ads API: 40,500

small business loans ontario interest rates

Keyword Planner: 0

Our tool/Ads API: 90,500

What we're missing? 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi, 

Thank you for reaching out to Google Ads API Forum.

Moving forward with your concern, can you provide us with the complete API logs (request and response with request-id and request header) generated on your end? This is so we can check on our end as well and investigate further. Additionally please also share with us the whole Google Ads UI screenshot (without cropping) of the data in the UI when you encountered the discrepancies.

For the client libraries, logging can be enabled by navigating to the Client libraries > Your client library (ex Java) > Logging documentation, which you can access from this link (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs). You can provide it via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, then send it instead on this email address googleadsa...@google.com.

Reference links included in this email:

• request: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service?hl=en#request
• response: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service?hl=en#response
• request-id: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure?hl=en#request-id
• request header - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request_headers

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Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

[Eliav Lankri]

Can you please re-write the email? I can't see it and the link is not to the email.

Btw, general question, to get the volume of search, like Keyword planner, should we use the following? 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi, 

Thank you for responding back.

You may refer to the context below for our previous response regarding your issue. 

“Moving forward with your concern, can you provide us with the complete API logs (request and response with request-id and request header) generated on your end? This is so we can check on our end as well and investigate further. Additionally please also share with us the whole Google Ads UI screenshot (without cropping) of the data in the UI when you encountered the discrepancies.

For the client libraries, logging can be enabled by navigating to the Client libraries > Your client library (ex Java) > Logging documentation, which you can access from this link (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs). You can provide it via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.”

Additionally, with regards to your question on getting the volume of search, you may use the KeywordPlanIdeaService (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v14/KeywordPlanIdeaService#generatekeywordhistoricalmetrics) for the GenerateKeywordHistoricalMetrics method. Please note that as stated in this documentation (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/keyword-planning/generate-historical-metrics) historical metrics provide metrics on how keywords have previously performed on Google Search including:

• Average monthly searches (past 12 months)
• Approximate monthly search volume (per month)

[Jabez Tadesse]

Getting the exact type of behaviour too, please let us know if there

are any developments in this public thread ... 👍

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for getting back to us.

According to the Google Ads dashboard , I can confirm that there is no issue in the Google Ads API. To analyse the issue further as mentioned earlier, could you please provide us with the complete API logs (request and response with request-id and request header ​​​​) generated at your end along with the screenshot from the UI(Uncropped). You can send them via Reply privately to the author option or Direct reply to this email.

If you are using a client library and haven't enabled the logging yet, I would request you to enable logging for the specific client library that you are using. You can refer to the guides Java, .Net, PHP, Python, Ruby or Perl to enable logging at your end. For REST interface requests, you can enable logging via the curl command by using the -i flag.

 

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Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team