Auto-Migration Manual Location Extensions

[BT]

For the auto-migration, what will occur during the following scenarios?

1)If a client already has a google my business account, but has not disclosed logins to link the current campaign. Will the auto-migration duplicate two Google My Business accounts

2) An account was part of the auto-migration, if it has an unverified location will ads continue to run location extensions?

3) What will happen to non location based business? 

[Thanet Knack Praneenararat (AdWords API Team)]

Hello BT,

1)If a client already has a google my business account, but has not disclosed logins to link the current campaign. Will the auto-migration duplicate two Google My Business accounts

Let me check first and get back to you first.

2) An account was part of the auto-migration, if it has an unverified location will ads continue to run location extensions?

No, it'll not.  In order for the locations to be published, they will have to be verified first. Please check this document for more details.

3) What will happen to non location based business? 

Could you please clarify? I'm not quite sure I understand your question correctly.

Best,

Thanet, AdWords API Team

[Chris Fehrmann]

Thanet,

The reply you provided to BT's #2 question above is interesting. Within the blog post here the auto-migration process describes creating an unverified business listing, however I do not understand the benefit of the auto-migration process if the requirement for a Location Extension includes a Verified Business listing. If I understand correctly, unless a Verified Business Listing is granted access to the Adwords Account by May 22, any current Location Extensions (manual) will be disabled and could potentially effect the performance of the campaign if not replaced with a Location Extension from a Verified Business Listing. Is this correct to your understanding?

Thank you for the assistance!

Chris

[Thanet Knack Praneenararat (AdWords API Team)]

Hello BT, Chris,

Sorry for my ambiguous words for question #2. Please see the corrected version of my answer below.

2) An account was part of the auto-migration, if it has an unverified location will ads continue to run location extensions?

In order for the locations to be published in Google Search and Map, they will have to be verified first. Please check this document for more details.

For ads themselves, unverified status doesn't prevent ads to use that location as its extension.

In other words, yes, the ads continue to run location extensions after migration.

For question #1,

1)If a client already has a google my business account, but has not disclosed logins to link the current campaign. Will the auto-migration duplicate two Google My Business accounts

The auto-migration will always create a new GMB account.

Of course, this would result in duplicate locations in some cases, but that's fine.

As mentioned above, unverified locations can be used as location extensions so this will not affect ads serving.

(You can think about unverified locations as phone book entries--anyone can create the same address entry in his/her accounts)

Chris, please let me know if the above still doesn't address your question. :-)

Cheers,

Thanet, AdWords API Team

[Alexandre Ho-Latreille]

Hello,

following this discussion, once the locations are migrated, I know I won't be able to manage those through the feed item service and will have to create them with GMB. What I want to know is will I still be able to fetch those location extensions with the feed item service and how is the fetching of the stats of location extensions will be affected after the migration, will it be the same behavior as before?

Thank you,

Alex

[Thanet Knack Praneenararat (AdWords API Team)]

Hello Alex,

You will still be able to fetch location extensions with feed item services.

how is the fetching of the stats of location extensions will be affected after the migration, will it be the same behavior as before?

I think you mean PLACEHOLDER_FEED_ITEM_REPORT?

If so, you'll get the new feed ID and feed item ID so the stats will be the new ones.

Hope this clarify. :-)

Best,

Thanet, AdWords API Team

[Alexandre Ho-Latreille]

Yes I meant PLACEHOLDER_FEED_ITEM_REPORT. Since the answer is yes for the first question I have no worries for the fetching of stats!

Thank you very much :)!

[Gio Villanueva]

Hi Thanet, and everyone

Sorry if this may be out of topic,

I hope you could help me figure out how I can pull locations data before migrating manual locations extension to GMB. I was asked to do this to "avoid downtime in managing location extensions.”

What data should I take note of? 

Where can I find them ? 

How do I pull them for the accounts?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Gio, 

You need to use FeedItemService or Placeholder Feed Item Report to get the FeedItem attribute values for your manual Location Extensions Feeds. You need to include the value "AttributeValues" in the selector so that the feed item's attribute values are returned in the response. You can then follow this guide to create locations corresponding to these FeedItems in your GMB account.

To retrieve this data for all your accounts under a Manager account, you need to first use ManagedCustomerService to get the list of accounts under the current Manager as shown in this example and then retrieve the FeedItems as described above. 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.