HI i was wondering how long it takes to get ad impressions.Because i have had my ad up for atleast for atleast 5 hours now.
It takes a few hours the first time. If your keywords are not very popular, or you are bidding low you may wait some more
Depends on the context of your question - your ads may get served within a matter of minutes but it's often an hour or two before your internal stats update to show the impressions/clicks that you've accrued.
Make sure under the summary tab that you are viewing impressions for today! It's a slick little trick google plays on noobs. If you don't happen to notice that you're not viewing today's impressions you'll think you're bidding too low and up your bids. Meanwhile google is tearing through your ad budget every day that you don't notice it.
Hey guys. Thanks for the tips. I just checked my account when i woke up today. And STILL no impressions? i don't get it lol. Could i be doing something wrong. I got 30 dollars in my budget and 25 dollars adword coupon. and i let google choose the bid price for me. But still no impressions.
Your not paying enough What's your average PPC price? If i start an adwords campaign, i usually see my first impressions/clicks listed after 2 hours when stats are refreshed. Didier
Your campaign may be flagged for review, in which case it could be a couple of days until someone manually looks at it.
30 dollars per month? In that case, your daily is 1$ (in case you set your campaign that way), and if you are bidding on expensive words, you would hardly get impressions. Try a higher daily bidget for a while until you see impressions coming in.
I just made some new ad groups a couple hours ago, and already see some impressions on them. My keywords are fairly obscure, generally, although I see that the ones that got impressions are more common. So I imagine it's either an account problem, which should be obvious on the AdWords page, or keyword problems.
Well i figured out my problem. I was not bidding high enough on my keywords. LoL im really glad i found out wat i was doin wrong. And my Budget is not high enough. Thanks for the help guys if anyone has a free adwords coupon can u PM it?