> I'm writing some code to use the traffic estimator. I've created a
> campaign with a couple adgroups and keywords in the sandbox. However,
> when requesting traffic estimates for them in the sandbox, the
> estimates come back with -1 for the keyword and adgroup id, as though
> they were new keywords.

> Is this a sandbox-only limitation, or does the actual Traffic
> Estimator service only return -1 for ids, even for existing keywords?

> Hello Josh,

>  If you're requesting an estimate for an existing set of ad groups or
> keywords then their ids should properly be returned in the
> AdGroupEstimate and KeywordEstimate response objects. I'm not sure why
> you wouldn't see that in the Sandbox, but it should be the case for
> production.

> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team

> On Jul 16, 3:40 pm, josh <raybeam...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm writing some code to use the traffic estimator. I've created a
> > campaign with a couple adgroups and keywords in the sandbox. However,
> > when requesting traffic estimates for them in the sandbox, the
> > estimates come back with -1 for the keyword and adgroup id, as though
> > they were new keywords.

> > Is this a sandbox-only limitation, or does the actual Traffic
> > Estimator service only return -1 for ids, even for existing keywords?