google adwords

the_box · 27 Mar 2006 at 03:50

ok ive had my ad words account for 2 days and everything is active on my account but for some reason i cant see my ad on the google network for the uk! Has anyone here had any experience with advertising using adwords! And if you do how long befor it becomes fully active?

thanks

chipperhead · 27 Mar 2006 at 08:56

I use adwords, I'm sure mine started pretty much straight away.
I think if you have a fairly low maximum daily spend that google spreads your clicks throughout the day rather than people clicking first thing and then been off for the rest of the day.
Thats how ours seems to work, were there one minute then gone the next.

Have you got a cpanel through your webserver that you can log into to see if anyone is coming from google?

the_box · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:09

chipperhead said:
I use adwords, I'm sure mine started pretty much straight away.
I think if you have a fairly low maximum daily spend that google spreads your clicks throughout the day rather than people clicking first thing and then been off for the rest of the day.
Thats how ours seems to work, were there one minute then gone the next.

Have you got a cpanel through your webserver that you can log into to see if anyone is coming from google?

whats your daily spend limit on google adwords? at the mo i'm on £15 a month and 50p per day! to start with

Tru · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:17

the_box said:
whats your daily spend limit on google adwords? at the mo i'm on £15 a month and 50p per day! to start with

That could be your problem. When you set a daily budget, Google will spread out your impressions over the whole day, meaning you wont appear for every search.

edit: yeah, what chipperhead said^

the_box · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:18

Tru said:
That could be your problem. When you set a daily budget, Google will spread out your impressions over the whole day, meaning you wont appear for every search.

edit: yeah, what chipperhead said^

ok just edited my monthly budget to £95 do you think this is ok or a bit more!

Supercow · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:21

the_box said:
ok just edited my monthly budget to £95 do you think this is ok or a bit more!

It also depends on which words you are bidding on. You might not have high enough bid on certain words, and will in your next report, come up as inactive for search.

ps: UK ad words is really expensive for some search words

Tru · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:23

the_box said:
ok just edited my monthly budget to £95 do you think this is ok or a bit more!

Depends entirely on the popularity of your chosen keywords. The beauty of the system is, even if you have a small budget, you will get the traffic you pay for (assuming your advert is good enough), so the higher the budget, the more traffic you'll get. You just need to decide how much you can afford.

chipperhead · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:28

the_box said:
whats your daily spend limit on google adwords? at the mo i'm on £15 a month and 50p per day! to start with

Ours is £1 per day, but like people have said, it depends on your chosen keywords.

chipperhead · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:31

Just had a look:

Maximum cost per click £0.15
clicks 2,615
Impressions 108,500
click through rate 2.4%
average cost per click 0.12
average postion 4.3

the_box · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:41

mmmm think ill have to see over the next month what kind of budget to go for!

Tru · 27 Mar 2006 at 13:44

There is a suggested budget tool, it's near where you select your keywords. You can also use, http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ to give you an idea.

the_box · 27 Mar 2006 at 16:13

yeah ive seen the budget section using it but i just wanted to get some of others experiences with ad words!