Hi, I am new to AdWords. I have created my account couple of days back and started a campaign. It has been 3 - 4 business days but my campaign status still says "Under Review". Today I contacted some Adwords qualified company and they were able to put my Ad in just couple of hours as a demo for me to see that they can get things done quickly. How is it possible? I mean does google give more preference to Adwords qualified companies?
All ads go through the normal review process independent of what you are willing to pay, how big your budget is, how long you have been using Adwords or whether you use an Adwords qualified company or individual.
Could be that your billing showed up as somewhat shady? Did you select a virtual credit card or any other suspicious activities as payment method? That willl usually set off their alarm and a manual investigation will need to be carried out. An already established Adwords professional who have already been billed many times will be able to launch a campaign within hours.
Truly speaking. There is nothing as fast approval (self service advertising model) when it is compared to Google. They have pioneered in this and they are leaders. As they are very clear about .. where is the money. You can yahoo search marketing, bing / msn adcenter. There are other tier2/3 search engines but again there is nothing like Google Adwords.
I would guess that they added it to an existing campaign in their MCC - just to make it show up quickly. For a real and new campaign for you, as LWM said, your ads would still have to be reviewed.
Yeah, I think they added it in there existing campaign or something, because though the Ad was what we have asked, the link was from their website which then redirected users to our website. It was not a direct link to our website.
you can try just bidding on a few keywords with high cpc's that will get your account going, then you can expand you keyword list