I started my brand new campaing about a week ago, I'm adding few hundred kws each day, most of adgroups supposed to bring at least 10-50 clicks per day, some less than one, but anyway, estimated budget is about 5000 per day. That's a lot, yes, but it never reached more than 30-40 bucks per day.
Today was slow for some reason and I checked some of the words with Diagnostic tool. And it says my daily budget reached and exceeded! Not a single lead today, about 14 clicks and this piece of &%#$ dares to throw that BS in my face!
Eh..
Question number one:
When I was adding new adgroups with normal, traffic-generating keywords, let's say 5-10 new adgroups per day, and estimations for each adgroup were 10-50 clicks, I noticed that new adgroups don't start generating impressions and of course clicks right away, like there's a guy who looks after my campaign and slowly turns my keywords on one by one. It it normal? How to fire this guy? It's annoying Smile
Question two:
What to to with this exceeded daily budget thing? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever, content network was always off, av. CPC is below 1.5-2 US per click, I even turned off search network and it still says budget is exceeded. At the same time when I click on "recommenede budget" it says it's enough. OF COURSE it's enough! :)
Did anybody experience anything like that? I really try to get as many deals as possible and dark forces are out there. I do bid on some brand names and competitor's URLS as well as misspellings and so on, but G never stopped me saying it's brand, etc.
supposed to bring at least 10-50 clicks per day
Well right off, you're relying on an equally buggy Traffic Estimator. I never look at that, I don't think anyone does.
Are you sure your keywords are really ones that get searched or are they too restrictive?
If you search for them, do they turn up?
Those are a couple of things I'd look at before putting too much stock in the other buggy tools.
patient2all
Well right off, you're relying on an equally buggy Traffic Estimator. I never look at that, I don't think anyone does.
I did - and can concur its a complete BS, not just _way_ off the mark, its just totally bad, and if it was underestimation then I could have lived, but it was a total huge overestimation, the only thing that was underestimated were cost per click.
If I was its developer I would not have had weekends until its fixed.
Dave.