i have setup an adwords campaign as an affiliate for piano chord finder service four days back. but as of now i think the campaign has not yet started. there are no impressions are clicks reported. my account page shows that the campaign is active. but my credit card statement has not recorded the 5$ activation fee yet. can anyone help me by saying what is going on. when will the campaign start. today is the 5th day. earlier after setting up the campaign, it said i will receive a mail from google. but the mail said that i was violating some rules. when i checked i found that they were gramatical errors. fixed them immediately. since then no change in the account nor mails from google also. kindly help me.. with regards, deepak
You'll only get speculation here. Why not email google and ask them? I never receive any email when I make changes to an ad. Maybe your bid is not high enough to get any impressions?
Your account will be under review for the quality of the ads so a human will need to look at them before they can be implemented. Also, your credit card may not be billed until the billing cycle has run, which means you could rack up a month's advertising costs before your credit card gets deducted.
If $5 is a big deal or you think it's unfair don't use AdWords. I'm sure they have to have something in place to prevent people form opening hundreds of idle campaigns.
It's probably in place to keep semi-new websites from wasting their time - when they dont have the traffic or budget.