Hey guys! my first post here - let me say that I have enjoyed reading some of these threads and hope to be able to contribute at one point My problem is that for some reason today my ad disappeared from my most effective keyword all the other keywords from this campaign are still getting impressions/click It seems that the keyword that disappeared is still getting some clicks but maybe only 20% of what it used to get and it doesn't even convert anymore. On top of that the CPC went down by about 30%. I did notice that another competitor appeard with the same domain, as I am using an affiliate program, but I was there first and so I am not sure if this is the reason, since their ad wasn't there up until today. I also added a second ad to this campaign 2 days ago, but it didn't do as good... the CTR on it was about 0.5 % less than the first ad - so I removed it. My campaign is targetted to US, UK, Canada, and Germany - but almost no sales have come from Germany. If I remove it from the list would it hurt my overall listing? it doesn't hurt for me to keep Germany on, but does it make a difference in the way adwords works out their ways of listing? Any feedback would be highly appreciated =)
It seems that the competitor who started an Adwords campaign with your affiliate link and the same keyword is bidding more than you. What is the CTR of your most effective keyword? If it's high, maybe you could beat him by increasing the bid price of your keyword a bit? Or are you at the limit?
Yep, it's the reason. Google will only serve up one ad per destination url. That policy went in place at some point last year in part due to the 10 eBay ads that would appear for any query done in Google. In terms of who's ad gets served I don't think it matters who was the first person to use the URL...
There is a slight difference from display url and destination url: The correct is that they serve one ad per root Display url, they do not care about the destination URL. So if your destination url is ebay.com but your display url is my-ebay.com I'm quite sure that your ad will be displayed along on a same search with another ebay.com display url search. As this is technically possible, in other hand I think that you are violating both Adwords TOS (display url different from destination url) and affiliate ebay TOS (misspelling ebay url).
I have tried putting a " - " in between the domain for another campaign but it didnt really give me the kind of impressions it should have if the domain is www.abc123.com but you change the display url to www.abc-123.com it should display it again?
Yes, Google will display both in a same search 1 ad with www.abc-123.com display URL and another with www.abc123.com display url even both have the same landing page. I would use l instead of 1 So your display url would be: www.abcl23.com But: It will display these 2 if 2 different accounts are using it. Google do not display 2 ads of the same account for the same search unless you request an exception for that and it's hard to obtain. So You get the advantege of using www.abc-123.com domain if you know that a lot of affiliates are using www.abc123.com as display url in AdWords and you do not want to share the ad search distribution with them.
are you sure? I am using your idea today due one of my CJ affiliates do no allow his name use in affiliates display URL. AdWords disapproved your ad? What is the exact text that they provided for disapproving your ad?