They increased the minimum from as low as 15 cents to $10.00 for a whole campaign running for 4 months with thousands of keywords and 40 ad groups overnight. The keywords had 95% great or OK ratings. Anyone have any ideas about this?
There are a lot of possibilities to this. Usually this happens when people modify campaigns that were doing well and then adwords catches something they missed prior.
What is your CTR? You can try to make copy of your current campaign then delete old one. It really can help.
Yep know all about it, suddenly they decide that your quality score falls from great to poor, without any changes made to your site. Deleting the old campaign and starting a new one with minor changes made to it might solve the problem but is no guarantee for success.
It's a dynamic environment; you don't have to change for it to change. You could also click your heals three times and say there's no place like home, that has as much likelihood of helping. If you have a poor quality score and high minimum bids (in the $10 range) you're doing something Google doesn't like. It most likely has a lot to do with your landing page. I would start my recovery process by looking here: http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46675
i just had a similar thing my min bid was 7p per click it noww gone upto 50p on some and 25p on others.I thought that by improving my content it would go down not up??
Something similar is happening to me. My keywords were all between 20c and 60c and were averaging a position of between 1 and 4. Everything was going well. High CTR too and quality score great on most. All of a sudden they were making no impressions. I've increased my CPC a bit each day but to no avail. They're now at $2.50 and still no impressions showing! There's only about 15 competitors in my market. Seems very strange
I added more keyword rih content related to the keywords i was bidding on.I did start using add web for building up link back s and thought m,aybe that was the problem.I think i just spend whats left and just work on quality linkbacks.Are directory link backs any good????
I have the same problem. Every campaign i create i get slapped. Look at the date i am sure that is a bug. There must be something wrong with my account because every campaign what i create get slapped with min $10. The keywords and lp page are higly targeted and the domain name has the main keyword in it. I have no idea anymore.
Since I started this thread, I have been working with this problem. This campaign has around 40 adgroups, all going to a different landing page. If I put in a new adgroup pointing to the domain, they go to $10.00 immediately. If I put the same page on a different domain, and put an adgroup in, no problem. Though all the info I can find point to poor page relevance. That cannot be the problem. Google obviously doesn't like the site. Rather than run around in circles over this I decided to ask Google support what is going on. I sent 3 support messages from their website last week. No answer. I called them yesterday. A nice lady told me she would check with someone about this and email me. No email. I must say that I'm amazed by their unprofessional attitude. I had been under the impression they were a solid company.
Their support is one of the worst I've encountered. I've got better support from some free services I've used. Anyway, I also saw that my pages were last checked on January 1, 1980. I also see some activity in the landing pages of my slapped ads, which are pages that no-one ever visits. Maybe that's a good sign. Try their online "specialists". They're great if you want to chat with someone for an hour and get no results. Hoping for good, nadavs
I finally got an email from Google support that just gave general recommendations and pointed to their guidelines page. A complete waste of time. I emailed back and asked them to be specic. We'll see.
I got another email from Google support, This time at least they showed that they had actually visited the site. He made some suggestions to improve the site. The problem is that the suggestions he made were specific to the business model of the site, which means the whole thing wouldn't work. I set up campaigns in Yahoo & Microsoft, and my traffic is almost what it was before Google pulled the plug. Also, they fixed the "last checked on January 1, 1980." bug. By removing the line.