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01-12-2013 02:46 AM #1 matthewk (Member)
Adwords only working 3 hours a day

Ive setup a new adwords account a couple of months ago, Ive got a campaign running on there but here is the problem, it only runs 3 hours per day, I get about 200k impressions from midnight to 3am then it turns off until the next day.
Midnight to 3am is GTM+0 which is the account timezone, its late evening in the country im targeting.
Its letting me spend about $500 in that time, I'm doing about $1000 revenue from that spend, Ive tried bumping my bids, even upto $3 per click and its still only letting me run 3 hours a day.

My relative CTR is 0.6% and my impression share is 26% with a Display Lost IS (rank) of 74%.

This is on the content network.

I'm tempted to just start a new account and try again, I ran some pretty bad campaigns with bad CTR's at the start but Ive improved on that now.

Any advice? Has anyone seen this before?



Thanks
Matt

01-12-2013 02:49 AM #2 panthary (Member)

Do you have day parting enabled?

01-12-2013 02:51 AM #3 matthewk (Member)

LOL I knew someone would ask that, I should of mentioned it in the post, no it isn't enabled on this campaign.

Thanks

01-12-2013 02:55 AM #4 matthewk (Member)

Its really baffling me, any help appreciated.

01-16-2013 07:14 PM #5 seitzy12 (Member)

You have crazy volume if you're getting 200k impressions in just 3 hours and those 3 hours being from midnight - 3AM.

If you don't have day-parting enabled or have any daily limit's set it makes no sense why they would stop sending you traffic.

01-16-2013 08:00 PM #6 redrummr (Member)

Contact Google, you're spending some decent coin so they'll sort you out. New account/campaign could be worthwhile if Google can't help.

01-16-2013 08:13 PM #7 matthewk (Member)

Its midnight to 3am in my timeZone(London GMT0) its early evening in the country I am targeting.

01-16-2013 08:37 PM #8 matthewk (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by redrummr View Post
Contact Google, you're spending some decent coin so they'll sort you out. New account/campaign could be worthwhile if Google can't help.
Thanks, I'm going to make contacting Google my last effort, I have some bad history with them from the rebill days.

01-16-2013 10:24 PM #9 atom64 ()

I'm running campaigns with GCN too sometimes with lower CTRs like 0,3 % and im not seeing impact on all the other/new campaigns (ie less traffic/impressions).

Maybe a new account will fix your problem, but you never know with Google... just make sure to use a virtual machine when creating a new adwords account and the IP location and billing adress should match. If you are still getting banned message me and i will give you some tips.

if you need more advice we can chat on skype, you can see in this theard that i can get a lot of cheap traffic on GDN

10-06-2013 06:35 PM #10 jangilb (Member)

Any resolution to this? Had this happen before, but never managed to fix it and had to ditch the account.

10-06-2013 07:20 PM #11 lewis69 (Member)

Have you got your delivery set to accelerated? Also have you looked in dimensions to see if you are literally getting no impresions?

10-11-2013 01:14 PM #12 peterrocks (Member)

Had that problem sometimes. When you've got such big campaigns, Google bitchs sometimes around for first time. You need to contact support, as best threw phone, there seems to be some risk restriction so you are unable to spend more.

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