The question is, how to count the number of sponsored links returned in searches. A little background. I have been doing affiliate marketing via adwords for a while. Getting the hang of it. Want to take it to the next level and start automating some of the process I do manually. One of these is to check how many sponsored links there are for a certain keyword. I know there are many commercial keyword tools that does this, but I want to write my own. I took a look at Google Web API and it doesn't seem to do this. Does anyone know how to count the number of sponsored links? Any help much appreciated.
Google Web APIs will only return normal results for any query.There are no sponsored links.May be Google Adwords API can be used to get what you are looking for . [
Thanks for the reply. I don't think AdWords API does that. Does any one know any other way of counting sponsored links? I would really appreciate the help.
Dunno about the AdWords API, but I've used Keyword Analyzer (yep, pimping it again, it's just useful to me ) to report the number of sponsored links. It counts them, as well as shows the actual ads to you. Helps to see what the competition is up to
I had forgotten that it uses your actual AdWords username and pass to access that info. So Google API independent, sort of. The second image is an example search for "skateboard." I showed the ads that people are running for that as well.
Hmm. I have no idea, honestly. It uses my Adwords information, so I assume that it's not doing anything that it's not supposed to be allowed to do?