No clicks/impressions in Adwords

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Hope you guys can help me with this one. I have about 150 long-trail type keywords for my niche in Google Adwords ($0.80 CPC). I have set to only the US because my affiliate offers will not work for anyone from any other country.

Question: How come I am not getting any clicks? Not even getting impressions. It is because I set it to US only?
 


telling us your niche will help. it doesn't even have to be specific.. just give us a general idea.

what's your daily spending limit for the campaign? maybe you accidentally confused daily spending with CPC therefore getting 0 impressions.

even if you set it JUST for US, you should still get good traffic.
 
mason said:
telling us your niche will help. it doesn't even have to be specific.. just give us a general idea.

what's your daily spending limit for the campaign? maybe you accidentally confused daily spending with CPC therefore getting 0 impressions.
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I just did a Google Search for some of the keywords and did find my ad which is why I am even more confused. My niche is VoIP which I am thinking is just very competitive. Would that be the problem?

My max CPC = $0.80
Daily budget = $15.00

Pretty sure I didn't screw those up.
 
Seems very strange. The stats aren't real-time though, so maybe you have had some impressions by now and it's not showing. You did set it up last night though so maybe that's ruled out..

The bids are the search network, yes? The content network takes a while to get impressions at first.

You could try changing your campaign settings. Change your delivery method to "Accelerated" and see if it helps. Also you might want to up your daily budget - $15 / 0.80 is only just under 19 clicks so your budget might not be high enough for Google to start displaying them quickly. I don't know though, it's just a guess.
 
Polyphonic said:
Seems very strange. The stats aren't real-time though, so maybe you have had some impressions by now and it's not showing. You did set it up last night though so maybe that's ruled out..

The bids are the search network, yes? The content network takes a while to get impressions at first.

You could try changing your campaign settings. Change your delivery method to "Accelerated" and see if it helps. Also you might want to up your daily budget - $15 / 0.80 is only just under 19 clicks so your budget might not be high enough for Google to start displaying them quickly. I don't know though, it's just a guess.
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I upped the daily budget and set it to accelerated as you suggested. :-) We'll see what happens with that.

I also increased the CPC to $1.25 I am hoping to get higher placement that way.
 
it usually takes a while for your first impressions to show up. If not then nobody is searching for your keywords, you are on the first page right?
 
Ok! I think I figured it out! The view drop down was set to "last 7 days" which only showed one impression and zero clicks for my ads. When I changed it to "today" it showed 4 clicks and 2,500 impressions.

I thought "last 7 days" included "today", I guess not.
 
metallic07039 said:
Ok! I think I figured it out! The view drop down was set to "last 7 days" which only showed one impression and zero clicks for my ads. When I changed it to "today" it showed 4 clicks and 2,500 impressions.

I thought "last 7 days" included "today", I guess not.
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it does. however, there is a latency.

what makes me wonder though, are 2 things:

- don't you have any kind of tracking implemented that yould provide you real-time stats for your campaigns?
a) you would normally get this from you affiliate management service
b) you should consider to implement this on your own (scripts are here on the board)

this would save you a lot of hassle, as adwords is mostly behind 3 hours and for costly keywords as yours, your money could have been spent before you would even see that in adwords.

also: 125 keywords for $1.25 sounds like a way too broad approach. why not consider giving it a start with the top ten keywords and see how this goes? as you got no tracking implemented telling you which keyword triggered the sale you will be totally clueless where that sale came from if you get it.
 
cyberworkspace said:
it does. however, there is a latency.

what makes me wonder though, are 2 things:

- don't you have any kind of tracking implemented that yould provide you real-time stats for your campaigns?
a) you would normally get this from you affiliate management service
b) you should consider to implement this on your own (scripts are here on the board)

this would save you a lot of hassle, as adwords is mostly behind 3 hours and for costly keywords as yours, your money could have been spent before you would even see that in adwords.

also: 125 keywords for $1.25 sounds like a way too broad approach. why not consider giving it a start with the top ten keywords and see how this goes? as you got no tracking implemented telling you which keyword triggered the sale you will be totally clueless where that sale came from if you get it.
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I use Google Analytics but as you probably know it is just as slow to report data as Adwords. What do you recommend?

I used so many keywords because they are all longtail types. So do you recommend I go with keywords that are searched more but fewer of them?
 
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