(in the Northern Hemisphere)
seasalt
How long will this be?
In the US, many universities/colleges have a week long break at this time of the year.
I'm also seeing some very odd traffic patterns. Normally traffic runs Monday high to Saturday low, and Sunday bounces back to an average day. This week for over 200 sites Thursday was the peak traffic day.....makes no sense to me. Christmas week, Thanksgiving week...strange thinks happen, but this week shouldn't have been upside down.
No explanation available!
Hope it heals soon...
Do a search on AOL and see if your ads are still there.
my adwords spend is lower with no changes on my part
also my ctr on adsense is lower
on investigation i have found adsense targetting is much worse so may be some algo tweak they are trying
hope so and they go back
steve
Something's definitely up at the moment (it can't all be down to student holidays).
Anything happen recently that I don't know about?
Is it really the Spring Break or did something broke at Google?
Same here. I thought the ads were not displaying locally for some reason but zero impressions must mean the system's canked up. I've jacked CPC & budget sky high & toggled search & content sites on & still zero impressions.
Anything happen recently that I don't know about?
...did something broke at Google?
No, no issues to report here.
Do a search on AOL and see if your ads are still there.
Vibgyor79 brings up a very good point. If you've made a change to your ads or URLs, those ad will automatically come down from all partner sites until reviewed and approved. This can certainly have a substantial effect on your impressions.
...I thought the ads were not displaying locally for some reason but zero impressions must mean the system's canked up. I've jacked CPC & budget sky high & toggled search & content sites on & still zero impressions.
As always, if you suspect something is amiss with your account, I'd suggest contacting AdWords support using the 'Contact Us' link within that account. This will let support look at the actual situation in detail, which is invaluable while troubleshooting.
AWA
Previous campaigns I've left on autopilot are rolling along fine. The newer, usually-missing campaign requires changing every few days or so. However, although it's always shown active, it's apparently not appearing on main Google until reviewed and approved; it's a G-rated product by the way, and the ad's never been disabled by an edit.
I've left ads alone in the past; is changing an ad every few days a bad approach?
I did also contact support, thanks.
However, although it's always shown active...
What the 'active' message really means is that the campaign or Ad Group is not paused or deleted. It does not necessarily mean that the ad itself is running.
For example you can have an active campaign with one active Ad Group and one ad. But if the ad itself is disapproved, then it won't be running - even though the campaign and Ad Group are active (I.E. not paused or deleted.)
Hope that makes sense.
...it's apparently not appearing on main Google until reviewed and approved.
Quite possibly your ads/keywords are sensitive in some way, and need to be reviewed before showing on Google. This is still possible for 'G-rated' products. For example, keywords pertaining to children will often need to be reviewed first, even if entirely innocent - for reasons that are probably obvious.
I've left ads alone in the past; is changing an ad every few days a bad approach?
Nothing wrong with changing ads whenever you like, so long as you know it'll prevent your ad from running on partner sites until reviewed and approved. However, many on this forum recommend creating an additional ad and leaving the first one there until the second one is reviewed/approved.
AWA
Will take the additional ad(s) recommendations, thanks again.
Nothing wrong with changing ads whenever you like, so long as you know it'll prevent your ad from running on partner sites until reviewed and approved. However, many on this forum recommend creating an additional ad and leaving the first one there until the second one is reviewed/approved.
AWA,
This brings up an interesting question: Is there a way to tell which ads have been approved (and are ACTIVE active) versus which are still awaiting editorial approval (and are PENDING active)? I don't see a distinction (or maybe I just have never tried running an ad with sensitive keywords?).
Thanks for your ongoing contributions.
I2
the new algo with our many clients,, and i will just quote the ones which bid 5 cent,,, were getting 1000+ hits a day, and now they are only getting 400 hits a day..
google has fangoogled us and is grabbing the money.
time to look at other cost effective engines.
they state this new also is to help us,, but i tell you,
us --- the large marketing companies are now spenting 5 times more to get the same results.
i really really am waiting for another engine to take over the has not a stupid, overture type system but a alorithm based engine,,,
come on guys? isnt there any body out there?
