Testing <param1> and <param2>

[Karolis S.]

Hello,

We are using Adwords API to SET parameters for thousands of keywords. Reason is to dynamically insert prices in text ads from our e-store XML file. (I am talking about param1 and param2).

Script runs daily. Before SETing param1 and param2 to new values, we always check locally hosted Database to ensure that values has changed from the last update. And only if new values differs from last time updated values, script SETs new values for param1 and param2. (This was programmed to save API queries).

About 1-2 months everything was working fine. But today I have checked in Google Search that we are shown old prices and they are not updated for few days. That's beacause our script got OK from API response and saved new value in local DB. But in Adwords system param1 and param2 wasn't updated.. I check my script log, I check soap_xml.log and I am seeing that response for those SET queries were OK.. But when testing live in Google Search, I see results with old param1 and param2 values..

So, I am wondering how I can manage double check - what param1 and param2 are set for my keywords today. Is it possible to run any operation to get those values by API and check them? Because it is impossible to check that manually if I have thousands of keywords.. And I can not update all param1 and param2 now at once, because I have 10.000 API queries limit and to update one keyword I need two requests.

Thanks for help..

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

You should be able to fetch existing AdParams by using a get call on the AdParamService. You can filter on the CriterionId to fetch ad params for a specific keyword or group of keywords. Make sure you grab the InsertionText field so you can see what the old value was.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[Karolis S.]

Hello Michael,

As I mentioned in other thread, we have issue with <param1> and <param2>. It seems something got stuck in Adwords engine, because we are daily updating these params with our script, but when previewing in search (live) I see old param values that were set on 2014-05-09 .. from that date, param1 and param2 is not updated to new values.

We checked by keyword Id in "soap_xml.log" file and we see that response from Adwords API was OK that day, but values are still old when previewing..

Could you please help us to solve that issue? I can send example keyword ID, account ID, other information you need to identify by in private message. Just give me a short message how to do this.

Regards,

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

Have you ever successfully updated the ad params since you initially created them?

Please provide an example SOAP request and response from when you are trying to update the ad parameters. You can either sanitize it (remove your personal information) or respond to me privately by choosing the drop down arrow at the top-right of my messaged and selecting "Reply to Author".

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team