Google Content Network - Low number of impressions?



windjc said:
and you know its automated how?
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I can hazard a guess
  1. My campaigns were weakened severely (pseudo slap) over the weekend. They did not get any hit that executed javascript from a Google IP during the weekend.
  2. During this time, they all maintained high quality scores (7-1), high avg. positions, but just barely ran or didn't run.
  3. On Monday, a manual review came in. THAT is when the quality score dropped.
  4. Switching campaigns from place to place seems to give a pretty standard time period during which I get impressions. My guess is the slapping procedure is something along the lines of a cron job, set to run when the various servers sync/update. It certainly behaves like it.
 
lol...

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Hello oscar35,

As one option, I would like to suggest that you also consider advertising with our competition: MSN adCenter and Yahoo! Search Marketing.


Because of what I believe to be a much smaller number of advertisers in each of these programs, I understand from other members of this forum that reviews may be accomplished more quickly there.


It's worth a try, in any case.


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When you do get Google slapped,.. is it applied to just the campaign or the whole domain?
 
I have really limited data, but looks like there are a couple different ways to get slapped. When your ads are under review, they stop serving you impressions, but your QS maintains intact. When your QS dives to like 1/10 to 3/10 then your campaign gets slapped. If your account is under review, then all your campaigns stop getting impressions.

speed_e said:
When you do get Google slapped,.. is it applied to just the campaign or the whole domain?
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It's really weird for me. My QS are all pretty high still 7/10 to 10/10. I upped my bids, to $30 and got like 50 impressions and 1 click yesterday. I setup this brand new campaign and it's running fine on search. All my content campaigns are broken.
 
Got the same problem since last thursday. Just one content network campaign survived and is still doing the same volume.

All the campaigns which got hit have the same domain, just split up into country labels.

e.g. a campaign for Portugal was going to domain.com/PT & one for Spain was going to domain.com/ES. The campaign which is still running has a completely different domain.

I just use image ads and placements by the way. All campaigns have a CTR of more than 0.35% which is average/good for the content network.

Previously the same campaigns got slapped for their "Bridge Page Policy" (= anti affiliate marketing policy). A new domain, IP & LP don't seem to solve the problem.

I officially hate google.
 
I don't have any content campaigns running right now but I just launched one yesterday and no impressions so far, will update as soon as I see (or don't) some action.
 
Update: My campaign went full throttle last night and went through my budget yesterday and today with no probs. However, I've had to pause it as the traffic was terrible (either that or another issue I'll have to figure out) so unfortunately I can't say much about longevity. For what it's worth it was a flog.


Stats:

imp 2.8 mil
clicks 1400+
ctr 0.05%
 
It seems like Google has allowed my campaigns certain types of traffic, where the CTR is horrendous! Although, I definitely don't get 2,800,000 impressions, but I have a lot of sites blocked out.
 
a quick look over some major adsense supported sites in weight loss niche shows they're pretty deserted - very few acai/colon sites get through or lasted enaugh

still.... I think the main reason here is USER EXPERIENCE and BRIDGE PAGE SLAP - flogs don't provide satisfactory user experience and they only exist to send users somewhere else. Didn't Google tell us not to do that long time ago? Why are we looking so surprised now?
 
Sohan said:
BING BING BING
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The Jackal said:
So as a relative newbie, I should ask--if I get a "Google Slap" on one campaign, then I will potentially have issues with all other campaigns I launch on the same Adwords account, no matter how legit they are?
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Probably, yes. My rebilling campaign was slapped. Then I ran a simple legit subscription offer on the same account. QS was 10 for it and suddenly it got slapped. FUCK google! Ughr... %%$^%#@

Anyone knows how to cloak google???
 
not bad, but sorry it was terrible

m0rtal said:
Update: My campaign went full throttle last night and went through my budget yesterday and today with no probs. However, I've had to pause it as the traffic was terrible (either that or another issue I'll have to figure out) so unfortunately I can't say much about longevity. For what it's worth it was a flog.


Stats:

imp 2.8 mil
clicks 1400+
ctr 0.05%
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Ive got one that is 5 days new:
imp 112k
clicks 18
ctr .02
conv 8%

You kicked my ass in the impressions!!!
 
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