My Adwords Ad Disappeared - Competitors Too!

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I have running a very successful adwords campaign for a clickbank product for about 6 weeks. My main keywords have performed very well for me and I was usually positioned 1-3 as well as the top of the page. On Thurs night when I checked into my adwords account to see my stats, I noticed that I had only spent about 1/4 of my budget and since then, there has been no impressions, no clicks.

I went to google to run searches on my main keywords and what is usually a very competitive niche, show only 4 ads total, none of which are competitors that I recognize. In fact, there are somewhat irrelevant to the keyword.

Yesterday I tripled my bid and daily budget to see if that would prompt activity and it did not.

Has anyone had this happen? Its very discouraging and I am losing some substantial earnings here. I emailed support but have not heard back. I know that as we speak they are running their monthly update so I cant access anything until tonight - maybe this will iron out then.

BTW, I do only white hat, above the board marketing, so I dont think I have broken any rules.

Any insight would be appreciated!!!

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#adwords #competitors #disappeared
  • Profile picture of the author BrianMcLeod
    Originally Posted by gratefultrace View Post

    I know that as we speak they are running their monthly update so I cant access anything until tonight - maybe this will iron out then.
    The update they did today was much more than a monthly update, it's a major revision to the Quality Score system. I would imagine you might be seeing some weirdness due to that. QS is going to be calculated on the fly now (!) so I have a sneaky feeling there's going to be LOTS of discussion about this soon.

    What is your QS like overall and especially with this campaign/ad group?

    Brian
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    • Profile picture of the author gratefultrace
      I just checked and all of my keywords have a "great" quality score. This is too weird....3 days of no impressions, no clicks, no sales on this particular niche. Very discouraged.
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      • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
        Did you contact them and ask why yet?

        Maybe, they don't allow advertising with your keywords anymore, like what happened with "Water For Gas"
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          • Profile picture of the author gratefultrace
            Thanks, but I have looked everywhere. My other campaigns are picking back up. I have had tried to contact them to no avail.

            BTW...it was my water for gas campaign that got creamed...but so did everyone elses. But I am picking it up elsewhere. I suspended that capaign.
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            • Profile picture of the author p4t
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            • Profile picture of the author Michael T.
              Originally Posted by gratefultrace View Post

              Thanks, but I have looked everywhere. My other campaigns are picking back up. I have had tried to contact them to no avail.

              BTW...it was my water for gas campaign that got creamed...but so did everyone elses. But I am picking it up elsewhere. I suspended that capaign.
              Oh, yes I heard about that niche slapp.Google has slapped many campaigns for the water4gas niche but I don't know why.
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              Regards...Michael T.

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              • Profile picture of the author Michael Gentry
                Google has made changes lately that I am still trying to figure out. Last month I got over 100K impressions in the content match and this month I only got 489. I know this can vary but something has to be different in this case.
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        • Profile picture of the author star007
          What was the big deal with "Water For Gas" I was thinking of promoting one of those products. Thanks
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          • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
            Originally Posted by star007 View Post

            What was the big deal with "Water For Gas" I was thinking of promoting one of those products.
            There all practically scams and google wanted to have no part of it.
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