"Others" appears on new campaigns opened via API

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Or Zilca

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Apr 24, 2023, 6:20:28 AM4/24/23

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Hi,

We use python SDK to create campaigns.

We noticed that when creating campaigns, we set a specific goal (using ConversionGoalCampaignConfigService), but, the end result is always the desired rule + Other (website)

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When we tried to disable the Other as default goal, all conversions stopped working.

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What we do then is we leave the Other as account default, open campaigns via API with a specific goal, and then manually go over each campaign to remove the "Other" and leave only the desired goal.

This is very time consuming and prevents us from scaling properly.

Is there a way to fix that?

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Apr 24, 2023, 12:13:12 PM4/24/23

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Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

With regard to your concern, can you confirm if you already try to check this documentation guide (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/conversions/goals/campaign-goals#custom_goals) as it has the steps on creating and applying a custom goal to a campaign? If not yet, kindly try to check it and try to set biddable=false to remove the unwanted conversion goals. However, if you still encountering that in your custom goals has other as your default goal, kindly provide us the complete request and response logs with request ID so we can further investigate. If you haven't yet, logging can be enabled by navigating to the Client libraries > Your client library (ex. Python) > Logging documentation, which you can access from this link.

You can provide it via Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, then send it instead on this email address googleadsa...@google.com.

Reference links:

request - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#request
response - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#response
request ID - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request-id
link - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/client-libs?hl=en

Regards,

Google Ads API Team