discrepancy on the search volume results

[Yu Sun]

Hey Team, 

I noticed when calling google ads API with the same keyword, I sometimes got search volumes set 1 and sometimes got search volumes set 2. 

For example: for keyword Boleros in Germany (you can ignore keyword_id and url_id since these are our internal ids)

This is set 1 (this corresponds to the values I saw on the UI)

{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 9, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 10, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 11, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 12, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 1, 1), 'search_volume': 1900}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 2, 1), 'search_volume': 1900}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 3, 1), 'search_volume': 1900}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 4, 1), 'search_volume': 1900}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 5, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 6, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 7, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 8, 1), 'search_volume': 1600}

This is set 2: 

{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 9, 1), 'search_volume': 33100}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 10, 1), 'search_volume': 33100}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 11, 1), 'search_volume': 33100}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2022, 12, 1), 'search_volume': 33100}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 1, 1), 'search_volume': 40500}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 2, 1), 'search_volume': 40500}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 3, 1), 'search_volume': 40500}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 4, 1), 'search_volume': 40500}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 5, 1), 'search_volume': 40500}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 6, 1), 'search_volume': 33100}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 7, 1), 'search_volume': 33100}
{'locale': 'de_DE', 'url_id': 7897553, 'keyword_id': 6971, 'date': datetime.date(2023, 8, 1), 'search_volume': 33100}

I guess you might have distributed servers to handle all the google ads api requests. Could you please check if the values are all the same across all different servers? Or could you please help me understand why I am seeing two sets of values? 

Regards,

Yu

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

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

By reviewing your concern, I understand you are trying to track search volumes of the keywords. Is the search volume you are referring to done through Google Ads API? If yes, please provide us with the complete API logs (request and response with request-id) generated at your end to better assist you.

Kindly note that this support channel specializes in Google Ads API related concerns and technical implementations only. Also, if the issue you are referring to is within the Google Ads UI, I suggest you reach out to the Google Ads Product support team as they are better equipped to assist you on this.

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Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team