I also noticed that close to 40% of the money I spend on adwords is during this time. Two questions:
1. Anyone know of an automated way of doing this? Anyone know where a script is I could use?
2. How will this affect my impressions? Other than the obvious of not getting impressions during this time. Does it impact anything to pause and start campaigns every day?
Anyone doing either of these?
They have a tutorial on automating AdWords - I'm not sure if it has been updated since the new AdWords features were rolled out, but it shows that you can do what you want.
I am not affiliated to iOpus in any way I'm just a satisfied customer.
Col
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Does anyone know if there are any consequences from google for doing this? I know I will lose a lot of content targeting... but anything more serious than that?
Has anyone modified this script to get it to work? I emailed the vendor, and they wont be able to provide a working one for a month or so.
Anyone using any other script automatically start/pause adwords at specific times of the day?
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Was that bump for me, skibum? And was it regarding this question?
Does anyone know if there are any consequences from google for doing this?
If so, sorry. I missed that question when first posted.
As to the answer, well, I'm not aware of any consequences. Let me consult with my Panel of Experts (PoE), and I'll get back to all y'all. Later today, or tomorrow most likely.
AWA
It shouldn't be too hard to program the script to do this type of functionality, as you basically emulate a browser, and record the macro, for the function you wish to execute...
Does anyone know if there are any consequences from google for doing this?
Word from the PoE:
Scripting programs such as the ones we are talking about here are fine. No 'consequences from Google'.
On the other hand, if one were to set it to turn 2500 Ad Groups on and off 100 times a minute, well, that might be a problem.
Bottom line: as with so many things in life, it'll work with moderation. ;)
AWA
I've been running an adwords campaign for 6 weeks now, and I've noticed that all I get is crap traffic after business hours. It ends up being international people or kids.
contrast_compare, I just wanted to make sure you knew you could target your ads so that you get no International impression or clicks - 24/7. This is setting that you can make and/or change at any time in the 'Edit Campaign Settings' page of each of your campaigns.
No 'kid filter' though. Sorry. ;)
AWA
Unfortuntely, changing the campaign settings to be US only does not restrict people from other countries clicking on adsense (googlesyndication) links. The majority (90% or so) of my clicks are from these adsense links. So, if i leave it on all night, I spend a few hundred bucks for guys in nigeria to visit my site. I've had it set on United States always, never "all countries".
Also, Im not even sure if that setting restricts people from international countries from searching on on www.google.com, it simply doesnt display adwords on www.google.co.uk or google.ca, or whatever. Im not sure about that though... ;)
Unfortuntely, changing the campaign settings to be US only does not restrict people from other countries clicking on adsense (googlesyndication) links. The majority (90% or so) of my clicks are from these adsense links. So, if i leave it on all night, I spend a few hundred bucks for guys in nigeria to visit my site. I've had it set on United States always, never "all countries".
Hmmmmm. This is counter to everything that I 'know' about country targeting. So, I'll explore this a bit and see if there is some exception that I am not aware of.
More later.
AWA
Hello, Ive found a scripting program that can automaticaly pause and start an adwords campaign at a specific time (iopus internet macros). Unfortunately, it no longer is able to pause/start the adwords campaign. The login script works just fine, but the pause and start scripts dont work.
I downloaded it after reading this thread. It works fine if you set it up yourself. You just need to set it to record a macro and then you login once and do all your pausing and activating of accounts. Stop the macro and save. That's it. You can run it again and it works perfectly. Interesting that I could not get it to work on Overture though, even if I did a manual login.
We use it for Adwords every Friday night and every Monday morning now, but I am planning to set it up using Windows Task Manager to go off peak at 9pm CET and back on at 8am CET as well. We'll just leave it running on the server and forget about it.
Unfortuntely, changing the campaign settings to be US only does not restrict people from other countries clicking on adsense (googlesyndication) links. The majority (90% or so) of my clicks are from these adsense links. So, if i leave it on all night, I spend a few hundred bucks for guys in nigeria to visit my site. I've had it set on United States always, never "all countries".
I've consulted with several folks on this one, and I gotta say it isn't making sense to anyone. Contrast compare, I'm curious to know how you are identifying the users as not from the US? IP address? Some other means?
Bottom line, we'd probably have to look at the actual account, along with your logs (or your other means of identifying users as outside the US) in order to really get to the bottom of this one.
AWA
does this mean that when someone visits a site that shows AdSense (and the site is located in the US), G has a way of checking the visitors IP address to see if it's out of the country, and if so, then ads which are only U.S. targeted aren't shown?
I'm not the world's foremost authority on the tech side of AdSense, but my understanding is this:
When a user from country XYZ goes to an AdSense publisher's site, Google detects the location of that user, then delivers ads to the publisher's site which are targeted to that country.
I'm guessing that on a slower computer, you might actually see the ads delivered a split second after the page itself, as this process takes place.
AWA
If you ensure that you only target the US, you won't get clicks from other countries unless they use a US proxy server or anonymiser.
We're not talking about ads on the google search engine, we're talking about their syndication AdSense ads and if the script that people put on their sites to show AdSense detects a visitors country and regional area to show the properly targeted AdSense ads.
I've never seen the AdSense code, and I'm not a programmer, so not positive about the steps taken to resolve an ip address, if its at the page level, server level, etc, but the AdSense code applied to pages would have to be able to check an ip address to properly target AdSense ads.
I should have said something like - I see .au or global targetted AdSense ads (well, they are AdWords) on US or AU publishers pages just as I see .au ads on Google. If I use a US proxy, I see US targetted ads on AdSense.
