hi, we have been using Adwords for more than 2 years now in the finance industry. but on friday a really stupid thing happened. we were bidding on finance related keywords and all the sudden there were too many clicks coming on our account so we decided to paused the campaign... the surprise came up later when we say click still coming through even after a hour the campaign was paused. when we contacted the adwords support they replied that average pausing and resuming time for a campaign is 2 hours the thing is that we have been doing it for last 2 years and at most it takes about 15 mins but never ever has gone beyond that. Considring that this much time is there... we dropped our bids below the lowest and still the listing were there in the search results... now with this lasy update we are really considring that is it really safe enough to go with adwords in such a high bidding market like finance, where you lose abt £10 with every click..... our account is the same one but the campaigns we handle are only for a specific period. And the campaigns are made live according to the client's feedback over the CPA acheived. that is we do loose out our CTR when we switch to a new campaign.. I would like to know that did any one of you had encountered the same problem on last friday evening...
3 hours behind in the report? So you there will be comming clicks that happend 3 hours ago. Most of the the time is on time but i guess some time they lagg 3 hours.
adword representative says it takes abt 2 hours on an average for a account to go live or pause... what to do then in case of highly dinamic bidding campaigns we have our own tracking tool for live tracking....
Yep 2 hours sounds about right. Most of the time it is about 20-30 minutes, but if you have content ads running it can take far longer.
I sometimes pause campaigns permanently, and when i check it with google analytics it still shows traffic from paused campaigns. however i dont get charged for them. thats strange
Guys !!! where is live time tracking ... does the technology so slow that we can't acheive it... 2 hours sounds rubbish to me... i feel its only the tacts to make some money..
With such a exclusive technology, if you are not able to give live tracking ... this is the Actual Reason!!! that comes to mind