Hello all, First of all I'm new to all this BUT have read all the stickys, but no thread seems to answer my particular question. I have setup my adwords campaign during the weekend, budget ok, minimum bid ok, all keywords active, but for some unknown reason to me google isn't showing my ads, yet the campaing hasn't been disapproved. The stats page shows 0 impressions, 0 clicks, etc. It just looks as though my campaign is paused. Can anyone help?? Thanks!
Possibly either your ads are waiting to be reviewed (quite likely if you set the campaign up over the weekend, as they don't do much at weekends) or nobody is searching for your keywords.
confirm all adgroups are active. try search for keywords inside of account and or look at keyword data..little magnifying glass will show status of keyword
Thank you artmacc!!! The ads were indeed not showing! I've chequed the magnifying glass as you told me and it shows a warning triangle sign saying that these keywords are not triggering any ads because the whole campaign is still in the reviewing process. BTW, the QS for all my keywords is "great". How long does it take, on average, for Google to approve, or disapprove, a campaign?
I do not have a problem With Google, campaigns are instantly approved. It may be different for brand new accounts though, too long ago do not remember. BUT with Yahoo is a pain in the a$$. Yahoo just hasn’t got it yet, MSN (MAC) is better on that department but they have other non friendly , counterproductive, bigger issues. Also, To make sure my ads are running with Google, I select the country I happen to visit at the time I set the campaign, even if I do not target that particular country I am visiting, just for testing purposes then I go back and deselect it if not my target. I think it’s a good idea to go for [exact phrases] when you check and make sure you have at least one Ad that has that phrase in the heading just to get your Ad display faster.
Robertino my account isn't brand new. I have used adwords in the past with no reviewing process whatsoever. It's just this particular campagin the one that is being delayed. Google has answered my email but has also fobbed me off and sent me to read their policy. Rubbish! My ad hasn't been disapproved, so I'm not supposed to go and amend it. It's been more than 24 business hours since I cannot see my ads running. And it keeps showing the active status. It's trully baffling. Could it be that there may be a "conflict" within the keywords because I have more than 200+ keywords but haven't so far split them up into adgroups? Could that have something to do??? Thanks!