Using the TargetingIdeaService to get search estimates on London Boroughs

[Paul NMP]

Hi,

Is there a way to use the TargetingIdeaService to get search estimates for municipal areas within large cities?

So, for example, (in New York) Manhattan and Brooklyn; or (in London) Westminster and Camden...

Thanks

Paul

[Charles Michael]

I have an almost identical ticket here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adwords-api/gPF2b4afsYs

While Nadine is looking up my ticket to see what types of ID's are searchable for search estimates, I've come to the assumption that Boroughs, Municipalities and Neighborhoods are not searchable, although don't quote me on this, its just from my experience in the last few days. 

[Paul NMP]

Thanks Charles.

It's frustrating that I can get data on low income/low population places in rural areas, but not on high income/high density areas in major centres. There's definitely a commercial incentive for Google to offer this!

[Charles Michael]

I've experienced the same thing, some neighborhoods that are in Canada have 600,000+ population but I can't get search volumes for them. What I ended up doing was submitting my entire keyword list assuming there is search volume and once the keywords are live, the low volume keywords would show up as Low Search Volume under status and I'd then remove those keywords. While I'd prefer to get their actual search volumes, this also works as a way to filter what has search volumes and what doesn't. 

[Charles Michael]

Hi Paul, Nadine has updated the ticket I had with the list of types that are searchable, Boroughs and Neighborhoods are not searchable by volume.