Strange Happenings

[flanker23]

Hi all, I am new to this forum but have been an Adwords user for 2 yaers. I am an affiliate using fairly basic landing pages to pre sell customers and yes, I was wiped out overnight on 11th July like many others (starting to rebuild my life & business with MSN mainly now). The thing is, I have left my two campaigns active just so I can go into them and 'export' my campaigns to MSN and Yahoo (although Yahoo seem to be rejecting a lot of my keywords) most of my keywords are inactive requiring typically $5 or $10 to activate, however I am getting some impressions and clicks at the old prices. Just yesterday i had just 3 clicks on a campaign which resulted in a sale which is great, but I just wondered if anybody else is seeing this?

[sailorjwd]

From my experience you'll get impressions occasionally. For my keywords that have a min bid way above their current bid it seems that the impressions may be around 10% of what they used to be but many of them do show and get clicks sometimes.

Leaving the bids as they were before the 11th results in about the same ROI (a little less maybe) but the problem is the total dollars are 20% of what they used to be.

For me, jacking up the Content network bids results in more visitors but lower ROI.