I own a couple of Clickbank products that I promote via adwords. I used to get something like 200-300 clicks/day from the content network a couple of months ago. I then had to experience the unfortunate incident of having my wallet stolen. So I canceled my credit cards accordingly. Unfortunately, I forgot to update my adwords account with my new credit card information so the payment was not received. I received an email indicating that my ads had been stopped because payment was not received and had to update the credit card. So I did and thought that everything was going to go back to normal. My clicks and impressions dropped dramatically. I made no changes to any of my campaigns. My campaign that was getting 200-300 clicks/day was now lucky to get 2-3/day. I thought that it might be a temporary thing, but it hasn't improved at all. Has anybody experienced something like this? And if so have you been able to figure out a fix for it? I am assuming it might be some type of penalty for missing a payment but this is ridiculous. Adwords Support was no help.
If you were doing direct to merchant, odds are it was the clickbank landing page that got your campaign killed. They don't like those long ass 1995 style sales pages anymore. When your payment didn't go through, they paused it and waited, when you entered your new payment info, they reviewed the account real quick, saw the clickbank landing pages and decided they didn't like your campaign anymore.
That might account for it but it was actually a squeeze page for my own product that I was promoting. I have seen many of these advertised in the content network, so I found it odd that they were just singling out mine. The odd part is that when I activated search as well I received a high quality score for it as I am ranking #1 in google for many of the keywords I was targeting in the network. Selective Biased? Any suggestions on how to get around this? The conversions were really good.