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Why can't I get more impressions?

         

tama

6:13 am on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

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My ads are showing up on a page that isn't even completely full of other AdWords. I'm getting a 13.5% CTR. There are no trademark issues. The search is not super popular, but not dead either. There are 84,000,000 listings in the SERPs.

I've got a $150 daily budget. Of which, I have spent a grand total of .80 over the past month for a little over 100 impressions. Most of the time when I do a search for this term, my ad does not show up.

The ad performs well and earns good money for me. I just can't get more impressions.

In fact, this happens to me quite often. Whenever I get a winner, I can't seem to get many impressions?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated......

tama

6:17 am on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I should mention my max CTR is .25 which puts me in the top 4 for my terms. I just upped it to $1.00. We'll see if that does any thing.

Import Export

6:49 am on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Sometimes editorial review and or performance metrics must be met in order to allow full delivery. If this is not the case, and, if you are generating a posative ROI, and, ifyou watch your account closely... I suggest changing your budget to $1000.00 (no matter what the budget tool suggests)...

inbound

4:25 pm on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

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WARNING!

People who have this problem are tempted to up either their Max cpc or daily budget, DO NOT DO BOTH TOGETHER.

I would suggest putting your Max CPC at the level you are comfortable with and setting your daily budget to something stupid such as 10 or 100 times what the estimator thinks. Often this helps.

It could be that there are just not that many searches for the terms but you can judge/check that easily enough.

Googd luck

AdWordsAdvisor

7:03 pm on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I suggest changing your budget to $1000.00 (no matter what the budget tool suggests)...

I would suggest putting your Max CPC at the level you are comfortable with and setting your daily budget to something stupid such as 10 or 100 times what the estimator thinks. Often this helps.

tama, having answered a fair number of queries over the years from advertisers who were panicked because that they actually spent as much as their budget allowed for, I'd recommend against doing this.

At the very least, walk into it knowing that there is the potential to spend that much. And before doing so, I'd suggest contacting AdWords support and having them take a look at the account to see if they can offer you some advice particular to your situation.

It could be something as simple as that you make very frequent changes to the ad copy, which would prevent your ad from showing on sites other than Google. (Why? Well, ads must be reviewed and approved before being sent to either the search and/or content network - and changing ad copy sends your ad back to the review queue.) This can substantially impact your impressions.

AWA

suzyvirtual

7:25 pm on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

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make sure that you have all the keyword variations that you may want. Somebody might be bidding really high on a broad match or something. Put your max bid and daily budget as high as you can "actually" stand for them to be (if you really end up having to spend that amount). Then, leave it alone for awhile.