Percentages in Bid Landscapes

[James Preece]

Hi There,

When I do bidLandscape requests against Google Shopping Criterions (DataService getCriterionBidLandscape) most of the values I get back make sense and match what I see on the front end.

Sometimes though I get very low monetary values (microAmount < 1000) which here in the UK amounts to bids of less than one penny.  In the US it would be less than one cent.

When the microAmount comes through as 100 this seems to correspond to the 100% values on the front end.

When the microAmount comes through as 50 this seems to correspond to 50% values on the front end.

However the microAmount sometimes says say 300 but corresponds to the 200% values on the front end.

I can't find any documentation about microAmounts being used to specify percentages of existing bids so I hesitate to use these values (I can play it safe and only use the ones where microAmount >= 1000) but by doing that I miss out on some of the data as sometimes say the 50% value is only available here and doesn't have a corresponding entry with 

Has anybody else seen this behavior?  Is there a way to identify for sure when these values are percentages of the current bid?

Thanks

James

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi James,

Could you provide the complete SOAP request and response log for this request along with the corresponding results from the bid simulator in the UI? Have you selected the Product group-wide bid option in the bid simulator in the UI? Please use Reply privately to author when responding. 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.