AdCenter Desktop Tool

[Finch]

This is doing my fucking nut in.

All I want to do is copy and paste an existing campaign, give it a new name, and change the country targeting. But it doesn't seem to work.

The closest I've got was copying the shell of a campaign. Which seems to be about as useful as creating a new one.

Somebody hold my hand and walk me to the brighter side, please?

China needs my ads.

 

[kelhalla2]

penis enlargement?

 

[FatalError]

penis enlargement?

That is a legit question. Why being an asshole?

 

[kelhalla2]

it was a joke. take it easy, real-kevin

 

[redmonkey]

Hey, hit me up i could help ya.

EDIT: It'd be easier to post here:

1. Select campaign on the left column. then click EXPORT button on the top bar > save to .csv file

2. Select Account you'd want to import, then click IMPORT button > choose csv file > review > that's it.

3. Now change the name of the new campaign or whatever option you want.

 

[omgyams]

yeah what he said ^

adwords editor, this is not

 

[johu]

Hey, hit me up i could help ya.

EDIT: It'd be easier to post here:

1. Select campaign on the left column. then click EXPORT button on the top bar > save to .csv file

2. Select Account you'd want to import, then click IMPORT button > choose csv file > review > that's it.

3. Now change the name of the new campaign or whatever option you want.

I've been using the desktop tool frequently this past month, and that's the best solution I've found so far. It's sad that both Yahoo and MSFT's desktop tools suck at copying and pasting, when it's such a simple process...

 

[Finch]

Hey, hit me up i could help ya.

EDIT: It'd be easier to post here:

1. Select campaign on the left column. then click EXPORT button on the top bar > save to .csv file

2. Select Account you'd want to import, then click IMPORT button > choose csv file > review > that's it.

3. Now change the name of the new campaign or whatever option you want.

Trouble is, when I try to import the CSV file, it skips everything because the campaign already exists.

I've tried going in to the CSV file and doing a find and replace on every instance of the campaign name (Campaign x becomes Campaign y), then re-importing. This imports everything fine except the Text Ads which don't copy across at all. Looking more closely at the CSV file, they have an Ad ID attributed to them which I'm guessing is getting fucked over when I do my find and replace.

I must be doing something stupid wrong but I'm not sure what.

 

[redmonkey]

Are you copying campaign from one account to another? It doesn't show any error on my end. Just export then import(choose different acc).

 

[Finch]

This is all in one account. I can imagine it would probably work fine across different accounts. But doesn't that become a pain in the ass to manage?

 

[johu]

Trouble is, when I try to import the CSV file, it skips everything because the campaign already exists.

I've tried going in to the CSV file and doing a find and replace on every instance of the campaign name (Campaign x becomes Campaign y), then re-importing. This imports everything fine except the Text Ads which don't copy across at all. Looking more closely at the CSV file, they have an Ad ID attributed to them which I'm guessing is getting fucked over when I do my find and replace.

I must be doing something stupid wrong but I'm not sure what.

Just delete all of the data from the ad ID column, and the ads will import properly. If you keep the ad ID, they show in the "skipped" tab, as being assigned to their original ad group.

 

[Finch]

^ Deleting the Ad ID in the CSV seems to do the trick - thanks very much.

I was worried it would detach the relationship between the ads and the keywords, and that I'd have a bunch of ads that weren't triggered by any keywords.

Still a bit of a bodge process to do a simple task though. Hopefully Microsoft sorts it out for the next release.

 

[stroz]

just import a new bulk sheet...excel is your friend