I had turned off all my adwords campaigns 3 days ago, and went back to check on them today and have noticed some positive changes. #1 About 20% of my keywords have gone active again. No changes were made to my landing pages. #2 The $5 and $10 dollar minimum bids have come down on many of them. They are averaging 40 cents to $1.00 now. There are still some $5 and $10 keywords but not all of them!! Of the keywords that have been re-activated, they are very very targeted to the ad text. Has anyone else seen this happening to their accounts yet?
Perhaps all the hubbub we saw was caused by a hiccup in the quality score system? I'm hoping the $10 bids were a temporary effect.