Ads appearing??

[pk_synths]

Anyone noticed their AdWords ads aren't showing up? I turned on Content Matching 2 weeks ago and ever since than I cant seem to find my ads on Google at times. I can take my top 20 keywords and go 5 pages in and not see them. Google still reports they are being served but no matter what I do I cant find them.

When I search several hours later they appear on the first page usually around the #5 spot. From nothing to #5. Strange.

I kept my bid the same (.10) could this be an issue? Seems that once I turned on CM I get buried.

Anyone?

-PK

[digitalpoint]

Are you getting anywhere close to your daily spending limit? Maybe it throttles them back because of the added volume of impressions you get from content matching.

[pk_synths]

The spending increased because of the additional traffic from CMing but no where near my daily budget. Would they turn off the ads because of increased impressions??? I average about 180,000 impressions per day. I would think Google can handle that.

Maybe increasing my minimum bid might help.

[digitalpoint]

Maybe the overall bids for the keywords has been going up, so maybe you are pushed down. You could test it I guess and disable the CM portion without changing anything else, and see if you appear in the search results again.

[Christopher]

Or perhaps others have bid higher and then they meet there max budget your ads move up. Hard to say, I certainly haven't gotten the nuances of google figured out... but I'm here to learn :)

Chris
andrews.com

[Such Great Heights]

Our AdWords ads aren't showing either.

We just started on the 29th and we don't see any impressions.
We are on a tight budget, but the ads should at least show once so we know they are working right?
The current daily budget is about 1/4th of what AdWords "recommends" but we should at least get our ads shown right?

I am confused, please help.
Thanks.

[bhutz]

I am having a similar problem in that my Adword ads aren't appearing.
I have a daily budget of £5.00 at first to check how this works and the status of my keywords is Moderate.

When I click on estimate traffic for the keywords I intend to use the estimate clicks/day is only 0.3 or something ridiculous like that.

Does anyone here know where I may have gone wrong?

[bhutz]

No lie but about 1hr 15mins after I made the post saying my ads weren't appearing I get a welcome e-mail from Google. Then about an hour ago I noticed a cheeky ad hiding at the bottom of the adwords column :D
I take it that the stats relating to impressions don't update that quick?