Loud Baking

Been pretty busy lately with csstester.com which is soon to be launched, finalizing stuff, etc.

I know, I know - I should only be concentrating on one application at a time, but that ain’t my kind. Am not smarter or anything, I just get bored too fast from working on the same thing project every single day, all day.

Anyhow, back to the reason for this post, Google AdWords API and the awful experience I had so far.

Back in early 2006, I had applied and received my developer token for the API (which Google stopped distributing as of October 2006). Developer token, email account to which the token was emailed and password in hand, I head to the login page. To my big surprise, Google replies back with a message along the lines of:

This account does not exist

Ok, so you emailed me a developer token and an API key in a separate email, to that exact same email address I am using to access my account, but you don’t believe I have an account. Great!

Since my developer email access is not the main admin access to the account, I log with my other email and invite the email Google had sent me the developer token to. A couple steps after, I am logged into my account using the developer credentials.

According to AdWords’ welcome email, I am supposed to find a ‘My Client Center’ link under the ‘Account’ tab.  But nothing there.

I go looking for help, reading pages and pages of information I could have skipped for the time being, but couldn’t find any kind of help about the issue I was having.

Last resort: email Google.

It’s been nearly 12 hours, and still no reply. One would have believed that between their  free meals or exercising, someone could have a look and just fix that in my account.

Waiting…