AdWords API Re: Problems with addCampaign - An internal error has occurred. Please retry your request.

Hi Richard,

Just to clarify, this request is stripped down to the bare minimum so only
the daily budget is specified. The point is to eliminate the clutter.

Regards,
Tibor

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Jones [mailto:rich@annexia.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:20 PM
To: Tibor Biro
Cc: AdWords API Forum
Subject: Re: AdWords API Re: Problems with addCampaign - An internal error
has occurred. Please retry your request.

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:28:37AM -0800, Tibor Biro wrote:
[...]

There are several possible problems with this:

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <log>

Is the whole envelope really surrounded by a <log> ... </log> element,
or is that an artifact of the method you're using to collect this
message? If it's really surrounded by <log>, then it's not correct
SOAP.

> <wsa:MessageID>uuid:2c4e55d6-a94a-445f-9eac-db73f16d6e1c</wsa:MessageID>
> <wsse:Security>

Not sure if Google's parser will work out what to do with the WSA and
WSSE elements, but hopefully it should ignore them.

> <soap:Body>
> <addCampaign xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v2">
> <campaign>
> <id>0</id>
> <name>Tibor testing - December 2005</name>
> <status>Active</status>
> <dailyBudget>500000</dailyBudget>

Budget is $0.50. Try a daily budget of a few dollars.

> <optInSearchNetwork>false</optInSearchNetwork>
> <optInContentNetwork>false</optInContentNetwork>

Your adverts won't appear anywhere! At least one of these should be
true, probably both of them.

> <languageTargeting xsi:nil="true" />
> <geoTargeting xsi:nil="true" />

As a last resort, you might try some targeting, or if possible, just
omit these elements completely.

Rich.

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