Google Content Network - Low number of impressions?

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matthewcaruana

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Hi guys,

I need some advice with this:
I'm running a campaign in the health niche on the google content network and I have 16 placements on some high traffic sites.

It has been up for over a day now and yet I only got 34 impressions (and they all are coming from 1 site)!

I thought that this was because of the keywords list so I removed all the keywords so that my ads would run irrespective of matching any keywords with the content on a site, however this didn't solve it.

I also tried highering my bids up to $2.50 however this didn't solve it either.

If you've got any suggestions on how to go about this please help. :)

Thanks,
Matthew
 


Are you specifying a list of keywords to match the content of the site in order for the ads to be displayed or you ain't using any keywords at all (like me) ?

This low impressions shit is so annoying.
 
Oh my bad. Using keywords + a few placements. Either way, it doesn't seem proper. My avg. position is too high to be getting these few clicks.
Plus I've ran a nearly identical campaign before and gotten a lot of traffic from it. Ugh.
 
I'm gonna try jack up the bids to $10 maybe it makes some difference.

Trying to get into contact with google support is pretty much useless I guess...
 
And? You think you can magically skip manual review on CN? Same shit happened to me few months ago.
 
My bad. hehe

So why is this manual review taking so long to get through? It's been over 24 hours... it usually takes much less time.
 
Running into the same problem.

Even with content campaigns that were trucking along for weeks traffic has died down.

I took some of my best campaigns threw them up on a diff account same problem as Shady 24 hours before complete halt.

Contacted support and got an update about how my account is under investigation.

Would love to hear how people can pull 1k spend on Google Content in recent weeks.

Proposed Solution: Use KW URL Trick... may hurt cause you won't be able to track by ad.
 
There was a serious "adjustment" to how Content runs over the past couple of weeks. I think they are cleaning it up to be more in line with traditional, high quality Ad Networks who don't allow a lot of things to run in certain markets.

There's also seems (to me anyway) to be a big push towards "diversification of results" so that people can have more options than just one affiliate after another.

Just means you have to compete better to be shown by increasing quality.
 
Ok so what do we think is flagging it? This campaign was REALLY fresh. No chance of a complaint yet.
I'm going back and forth between a few possibilities(hosting IP history comes to mind)...but it's possible they're also doing a fulltext search of the LPs.

On the intriguing side, if you take a look at http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-cache-is-ruled-legal-fair-use/2837/ part of the court decision that allowed the Google cache to be fair use was the persons failure to use the noarchive tag. I wonder how that stays if you put up the tag, and they maintain an internal copy?
 
xmcp123 said:
Ok so what do we think is flagging it? This campaign was REALLY fresh. No chance of a complaint yet.
I'm going back and forth between a few possibilities(hosting IP history comes to mind)...but it's possible they're also doing a fulltext search of the LPs.
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For the flagging it can be pretty much anything that gives the ad reviewer or bot reason to look a little deeper. This could be the type of offer, destination url mismatches, cloaking, certain keywords and so on.

Once a campaign is flagged, it appears the whole account comes under review. From my experience old campaigns continue to run OK, until eventually they are reviewed as a matter of course. But making ANY changes to an old campaign will flag it for review at the moment, clean account or not.

And I've been told by an AW rep that all campaigns do get periodic reviews. It's the luck of the draw on a clean account as you may go for yonks without a review or be the next cab off the rank. But if your account has a campaign that has been previously flagged, then all new campaigns at this time are reviewed. The only way it seems to speed this review process up is to phone them, something I personally don't like to do.

I'm basing this off my experience and the experiences of others I've spoken too, so YMMV.
 
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