Hi, Help! I've turned on "Content Network" for two of my campaigns but I'm not getting any traffic. Can anyone advise how long it takes for ads to show up in Google's content network? Thanks for viewing and advice.
Usually after creating new campaigns that are using the content network I see activity within 24 hours.
Are you getting impressions but no traffic? In which case your ads are being displayed but not clicked. Or are you just not getting any impressions? Like GuyFromChicago says, we usually see some impressions on the content network quite quickly. Then over days/weeks the number of impressions and traffic rises.
When you create content campaigns, be sure that you add negative keywords and add sites that you think your site will be possibly displayed but wont get any conversions in the Site exclusion section., For ex., If your site is finance related, it appearing in teens section is loss of money., Just exclude all high traffic teen sites through the site exclusion section so that you wont be paying for unneccessary clicks
I was in the same situation like you. I was not getting any impressions. I was using my minimum bid as 0.03. I did some calculations and decided to increase my bids to 0.05 After 24hrs the impressions jumped to 10,079. The CTR is quite low compared to search