How Can I be this dumb?

[testonej]

The weird thing is that you are saying this happens on ALL the networks?

If that is correct, then the problem is obviously at your end. (but I don't know what)

Have you tried static pages instead of dynamic keyword insertion?

I have tried static pages and iframed offer pages.

All in All - I want to thank the whole community for all the PMs and IMs I have received. I will be working through all your suggestions and try to post the answer here in the forum once I receive one. Its pretty funny, I posted the exact same thing in the DigitalPoint forums (think cut and paste) and have yet to get a single response or constructive comment from there. I think my cry for help just got lost in the crowd of crap over there. i am officially done with them. WickedFire will be my new home from now on.

 

[cashflowrusty]

Pump the bids up to $1.00 for a SHORT period and see if there is traffic. There could be 10000 folks bidding $0.06 for the same keyword, all with similar QS stats...


Oh, remember to take the bids back down...

 

[georgiecas1y]

As for getting a bunch of clicks immediately, that just means their scripts ok'd your campaign for immediate release, but a human reviewer is going in later and finds something they didn't like. Normally this is due to the landing site and domain the campaign is hosted on. A crappy landing page attached to a crappy landing site will drop your impressions and your clicks signficantly. Just because you're putting the keywords in the page, doesn't make it a good landing page. They could be labelling a bridge page still.

Do Google do this, handjob adwords campaigns after a day. Is there any way of you knowing?

 

[sampunk]

In other words, how bad could you have violated TOS for and IP ban?

From a N00bs..

I doubt google ban IP address. There are too many sites using share hosting..

 

[Rob_TID]

From a N00bs..

I doubt google ban IP address. There are too many sites using share hosting..

It's easy enough to tell if a site's on shared hosting or not.

 

[Gyppo]

Have you moused over the "Ad Status" in the keyword view. If the ads are showing then it'll say "Ads showing OK."

Quite often the only time this happens to me is if I'm trying to outbid a competing affiliate on the same Display URL (due to the double serving rule).

The only other time this has happened to me is when my site got filtered with an Adult Classification & refused to show ads.

This will all show up in the ad status thing though.