Targeting Idea Service - Is there an option to hide keywords in my account (similar to Keyword Planner)

Tom Bulis

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Oct 25, 2016, 9:34:08 AM10/25/16

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Hello,

Is there a way to prevent the Targeting Idea Service from returning keywords that already exist in the account?

The Keyword Planner (UI tool) has this functionality by default.

Thanks for your help!

Tom

Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)

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Oct 25, 2016, 5:05:35 PM10/25/16

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Hi Tom,

Could you please let me know if you are using the TargetingIdeaService to retrieve ideas? Also, what seed input did you use (ad group, keyword etc.)? If you happen to have the SOAP XML request and response logs for the API call, that can help me understand the issue better.

Ideally, if you use an ad group as the seed input, you should not see the keywords that are already available in your ad group. However, if you use a random phrase as the seed, you may see some keywords in the response that may already exist in one of your campaigns/ad groups.

Regards,

Vishal Vinayak, AdWords API Team

Tom Bulis

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Oct 26, 2016, 2:43:13 PM10/26/16

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Hi Vishal,

Thanks. Yes, we are using the TargetingIdeaService to retrieve ideas. Our seed input is a target website (URL).

I'm guessing a URL seed input wont hide keywords already in the account either (similar to a random phrase). Is this correct?

Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)

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Oct 26, 2016, 3:57:59 PM10/26/16

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Hi Tom,

URL seed input would return you a list of all keywords that match the specified URL. To exclude keywords that already exist in your account, the only thing that I can think of is IdeaTextFilterSearchParameter, which can be used to specify the keywords that you would want to exclude from your suggested ideas list (up to a maximum of 200 keywords). However, you would have to manually extract the keywords from your account and add the keywords to your request.