15 Minutes to get adwords up n running

Is it true?

[longen]

The Adwords Home page states "Start gaining new customers in less than 15 minutes." My campaigns seem to take longer: i have one that has been active since last thursday, £50 daily budget, runs until next week, standard grammar, etc. Does anyone know which ads run immediately?

[Shak]

I have had new accounts up and running in 15-20 minutes.

not sure where you are trying to go with the post?

Shak

[korkus2000]

The last campaign I had started within 30 minutes. I got my first click within the hour. I was targeting a smaller industry so I was very surprized.

[skibum]

15 minutes to get ads up is easily doable. Much of the time ads start showing on Google.com almost immediately.

To get a top-notch campaign going so that it is profitable generally takes considerably longer.

[digitalv]

Technically yes, you can be up and running in 15 minutes - but to manage a good campaign can take much longer. I employ a full time person who does nothing but manage PPC advertising.

[longen]

I wasn't entirely clear in my first post - i shouldn't type while having a glass of Aussie red.

My campaign has been active since last week, max bid is 0.58p (almost a dollar) on one of the most popular electronic gadgets available. But i've had zero impressions - even obscure kw's get more than zero.

[digitalv]

Sounds like you need to call Google for that one - what is the "average position" according to AdWords? If you're a few pages back, if it's a commonly sought product it's possible that people are never getting to the page where your ad is going to appear.

I doubt that's it though - best to contact Google and ask them what's up.

[sem4u]

I can get some ads up in 15 minutes. Takes a bit longer to construct a whole campaign though.

[gprofits]

I've had my campaign up between 30 minutes to 1 hour. It really does vary depending on the amount of usage the Google server takes.

But I can assure you that they are quick to use up your daily limit, if you've positioned yourself with the right keywords.

[UpDown]

Longen, sounds to me as though your popular electronic gadget may use a trademark term which is banned by Adwords. I have had ads that never show any impressions for this reason.

[longen]

Adsense eventually approved the ad and it started running. The text was almost identical to a previous creative i used - just a different model number - so i didn't think it would need approval, and surely other advertisers would have used these terms previously. Doesn't G not keep a database of words previously approved so that there isn't these long delays.

[AdWordsAdvisor]

The text was almost identical to a previous creative i used - just a different model number - so i didn't think it would need approval, and surely other advertisers would have used these terms previously. Doesn't G not keep a database of words previously approved so that there isn't these long delays.

It is not simply that the words themselves have to be approved, longen. Rather it it is that the words as used in the context of the individual ad have to be approved - as do the URLs, and the site itself.

Hope that makes it clear. It's been a long day, so I'm not entirely sure! ;)

AWA

[moishe]

I have learned one thing--
Always make sure you have actually made an ad. Last week, I spent an hour plugging KWs into adwords and let it rip. After a few days of getting no impressions, no clicks and after increasing my cpc a couple times, I realized I had never actually made and ad,,, DOH!
A lesson to always doublecheck one's work I suppose:)