ever had this happen?

[inferno]

have you ever lowered your cpc, say from 35 cents to 15 cents, then see your traffic actually triple?

i had that happen in a campaign recently, pretty weird if you ask me

[Techforce]

I have decreased them, and have seen impressions increase. It seems like something always nullifies what
you try to do to make your campaign more effective.

Last night I saw only certain Key words appearing , and others were not. Its the campaign that makes the most money, is the one they will mess around with.

[archie goodwin]

Were you reaching your daily budget before?

[SeattleRedSox]

I think what archie is trying to say is that if your $.35 bid resulted in a recommended budget that you were under, your campaign would be "slowed" (there may be a more appropriate term. By lowering your bid, you may have reached a recommend campaign budget, resulting in your ads appearing almost 100% of the time, increasing traffic.

--jr

[inferno]

i was never, and still am not even comming close to my budget :)

[SeattleRedSox]

Email Google and let us know if they respond and if the response makes any sense.

--jr

[bbcarter]

It would be interesting to know how many impressions come on google search results pages, and how much on AdSense publishers-

Because I can tell you from an AdSense perspective that 'coincidentally' since late March I'm getting a lot more traffic on the pages that pay less...

Which could indicate that with the rumored "Smart Pricing", Google is placing more of the lower bid Adwords ads on AdSense publisher pages-

And so if the total number AdSense publishers' impressions is substantially bigger than Google search results impressions, it would make sense that you'd get more impressions from lower bids.