Does anybody get any similar to this recently?
A 500% increase still renders the vast majority of my bids inactive, so I'm still completely SOL right now. I was hoping the rest of the weekend would see numbers returning to pre-April 5th levels, but no such luck as yet.
I'll continue to appeal to the AdWords team until I get some constructive feedback from them as to what they suddenly think I've done wrong. It's hard to sit here and guess what it is that they seemingly arbitrarily decided wasn't up to their standards when nothing on my site has changed.
Has ANYONE seen their bids return to PRE-April 5th levels?
Glad things are back to somewhat normal (for me) but what a wake up call! Basically, my whole livlihood is at the mercy of Google it seems. I always knew that but when I had to come face to face with it... well, it's scary isn't it? Time to diversify.
... a few hours later everything went back to normal as if nothing happened.
Why won't they just admit a mistake was made and that in a few hours everything will be back to normal?
kz
Thanks so much for the update! Hopefully the rest of us will be able to report back just as successfully, and soon.
Although, mine didnt start on the 5th, it only happened on the 8th when I noticed my traffic about 1/2 what it normally is I checked my campaign and noticed all the inactives.
Can somebody who's account appears to be back to normal try to add the following keyword to a campaign:
aafdlllldkdkkkiff
Wondering whether you can bid less than .10c for it?
When I add this as a keyword it asks me to raise my minimum to 10c. Now I know .10c doesnt sound like much, but I used to bid only 5c for all of my keywords, yet now about 60% of them are inactive asking me to raise up to 10-40 cents in most cases.
Look forward to hearing further comments.
Thanks
by the way.. I'm still seeing $5/$10 minimum bids in my account.. been running my account for a year...
Just wanted to echo what's already been reported here. While it's been a frustrating time, it's good to see that it's not just me.
From around April the 5th, I've seen many successful campaigns destroyed by $5 to $10 minimum CPC on some phrases.
I looked through my account to try to find the reason. There doesn't seem to be any logic behind it. That's the frustrating part. There's nothing you can improve, do or tweak.
If it stays this way, the only thing I can say about Adwords would be 'you can only bid on certain phrases'. Some phrases are, for an unknown reason, out of reach due to the high bids.
