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DomainCategory Data Object - Ad Insight

Defines an object that contains a domain category with website coverage.

Syntax

<xs:complexType name="DomainCategory" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:sequence>
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Bid" type="xs:double" />
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="CategoryName" nillable="true" type="xs:string" />
    <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Coverage" type="xs:double" />
  </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

Elements

The DomainCategory object has the following elements: Bid, CategoryName, Coverage.

Element Description Data Type
Bid Reserved for future use. double
CategoryName The category name.

Up to three category levels can be returned, and will be separated by a forward slash ("/"). For example the returned category might be US/CA/SFO.		 string
Coverage A score from 0.0 to 1.0 that indicates the percentage of pages in the requested language that belong to a particular domain out of all the pages that Bing has indexed for the same language your website's domain.

In other words coverage is the percentage of webpages that match a category and language divided by the total number of webpages using the same language in the domain.

For example, if the category US/CA/SFO matches 500 english webpages and US/CA matches 1,000 english webpages, then the coverage will be 0.50 (50 percent).		 double

Requirements

Service: AdInsightService.svc v13
Namespace: https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13

Used By

GetDomainCategories