Google Content Network Giving Me Very Few Impressions. Can't Figure Out Why...

megatabbers

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Question to people still running Adwords:

Opened a new account the other day (was never banned from my original but had gotten the final warning Email about a year ago so decided to start with a fresh one) wrote some ads and chose some placements for them.

Ads started running early in the morning, plenty of volume, then around mid-day impressions slowed down a lot (e.g. 200-300/hour when there should be several thousand).

It's been a while since I've used Google so maybe I'm missing something here. My daily budget is plenty high and I'm having the same issue bidding both CPC ($2.00) and CPM ($10).

Is there something else I might be missing that's causing the impressions to just trickle in (e.g. they meter impressions and spending for new accounts the way Facebook does?)
 


I had that 'drop' in traffic with new adsense accounts. Support never answered why though, but it has levelled out as time went by. It certainly could be some sort of new account measure.
 
New accounts usually have a "break in" period. I've never heard of one that was opened and the traffic poured out quickly (and cheaply).

Once I created an ad with a friend and it didn't show up for at least a couple of hours. He cancelled going to a concert, losing sleep over it. But when I woke up in the morning, I had spent almost all my budget. Well, now I know.