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AdWords click measurement improvements and migration

Earlier this month, the following improvements were made available to all users:
  • Setting finalUrlSuffix at the customer, campaign, ad group, ad, and extension level in all AdWords accounts. Previously, this feature was only available in test accounts.
  • Specifying up to eight custom parameters. Previously, the maximum number of custom parameters was three.
As announced earlier this year, starting October 30, 2018, parallel tracking will be required for all AdWords accounts. With the above features in place, the AdWords API now supports all the features needed to migrate your accounts to parallel tracking, so we encourage you to get started on the migration as soon as possible. The detailed AdWords API guide and accompanying implementation checklist will walk you through the required changes.

If you have questions or need help with the migration, please email us at [email protected].
- Josh Radcliff, AdWords API Team

Temporary limits on ad uploads in AdWords API

To ensure reliable performance for all advertisers during advanced URL upgrades, the AdWords API has placed a temporary limit on the number of AdGroupAd ADD operations that can be performed on an advertiser account per day. Other types of requests are not affected by this change. Please review the RateLimit documentation and make sure your code handles the RateExceededError properly.

During most normal operations, you won’t run into these limits. However, if you are uploading a very large amount of new ads in a short period of time and find yourself running into this error frequently, let us know on our forum and we will work with you to address the issues.

Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Team

Reminder: New filter limits for Adwords API and scripts

As previously announced, AdWords API v201309 and AdWords scripts will start enforcing a limit of 10,000 matching values as arguments for the IN and NOT_IN operators starting March 31, 2014. This limit is currently enforced in AdWords API v201402.

You may be affected by this change if you construct large AWQL queries or selector predicates that have thousands of matching values using these operators in one of these use cases:

To make sure your applications and scripts work properly, check any code that constructs queries for reports or retrieve items using get or query methods and add necessary limit checks before March 31, 2014.

If you have any questions about this change, you can post them on AdWords API or Scripts developer forums. Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Team

Ensuring reliable performance with new filter limits for AWQL and reports

To ensure reliable performance for all developers and advertisers, AdWords API and AdWords scripts will start enforcing a limit of 10,000 matching values as arguments for the IN and NOT_IN operators starting March 31, 2014.

You may be affected by this change if you construct large queries that have thousands of matching values using these operators in one of these use cases: Once this change goes into effect, our servers will start throwing a SelectorError if your queries contains more than 10,000 matching values for IN and NOT_IN operators. For AdWords API v201309, the error reason would be set to SELECTOR_ERROR. In newer versions, the error reason would be set to TOO_MANY_PREDICATE_VALUES.

To make sure your applications and scripts work properly, check any code that constructs queries for reports and AWQL and add necessary limit checks before March 31, 2014.

If you have any questions about this change, you can post them on AdWords API or Scripts developer forums.

Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Team