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[Bill Drapcho Contribution Level: 2]

This sounds crazy, but my PPC campaign won't work. I followed the PPC Domination videos and set up a campaign a few weeks ago. Everything showed active, but after 5 days all of my stats still showed 0 (zero) across the board. I contacted Google who immediately sent me a generic email that didn't help at all. So, I decided to cancel that campaign, review the videos and set up another campaign, $100 per day, etc. I researched my keyword phrases, set up two ads, etc. So far after 3 days....0 (zero)..NOTHING. Why isn't this working? What could I have done incorrectly? Is there a START button that I missed? I hate the fact that I cannot figure this out. Someone, please help.
------Bill

[Marty Baker Contribution Level: 5]

What are you saying 0 impressions or 0 clicks? When you are in your ad group and looking at your keywords there should be an eye glass next to them put your mouse over the eye glass and see what it says.

[Bill Drapcho Contribution Level: 2]

OK thanks for that bit of direction....now, it says everthing is active but it takes .95 to 1.50 to show up on the first page. Now, if I remember correctly, Jim Yahgi's example used .30 bid for his sample campaign in PPC Domination. Why can't I? I set a budget of $100 per day but If I go to .95 or 1.50 per bid I will go through that budget a lot quicker. Can I increase this to about .60 each bid and start to show up? OR, will it still ignore me because I am not at the projected first page bid?

[Erik Shear Contribution Level: 2]

OK thanks for that bit of direction....now, it says everthing is active but it takes .95 to 1.50 to show up on the first page. Now, if I remember correctly, Jim Yahgi's example used .30 bid for his sample campaign in PPC Domination. Why can't I? I set a budget of $100 per day but If I go to .95 or 1.50 per bid I will go through that budget a lot quicker. Can I increase this to about .60 each bid and start to show up? OR, will it still ignore me because I am not at the projected first page bid?

In competitive markets the starting bid for a first page placement is going to be higher no matter what. The thing you want to do bid about half of what Google tells you at first. Then slowly increase the bids until you start getting impressions. If you are seeing zero's across the board then as the previous poster said look at the spyglass and see what Google is telling you. You will usually see three things:

1.Your bid is to low it will not get seen (increase the bid).
2.Your quality score sucks... If it is poor Google will not show it as much or they will slap you.
3. Your Keywords are not relevant or they have very low search volume...

If your bidding is competitive then its back to the keyword research grind and making sure you are targeting the most relevant keywords to your offer. Also is your landing page relevant do your keywords match the content which will greatly increase your QS.

Hopefully that helps a bit and sometimes I have noticed that stats are slow to update. You may want to try using the google adwords editor which can pull your stats down quickly.

[Marty Baker Contribution Level: 5]

ok Glad that helped... Eriks post hits it on the head. you just have to play around with it. By the way what are you Marketing?...

[brack stain Contribution Level: 1]

Hi,

The keywords play major role in PPC. We need to use appropriate keywords for the websites. We can get the high ranking keywords by using the PPC web spy software. You'll be able to shave off hours, days, months, and even years of time doing keyword research and testing exactly which keywords convert visitors to buyers.

[Bill Drapcho Contribution Level: 2]

Marty,
I am marketing CCP/WMI and I am also a Xocai Healthy Chocolate distributor. I was also doing a few other little things here and there, but I canceled those because I want all my focus on this. You can't have your hands in too many things otherwise you'll go crazy. This has simplified my marketing tremendously. Now, as soon as I conquer Adwords, I'm off to the races!!

[Erik Shear Contribution Level: 2]

Are you direct linking to CCP capture page?

[Ewan Robb Contribution Level: 2]

depending on your budget, you could pay UGC to do your campaigns? save you around 10 years of learning

if your bidding on keywords such as make money online or work from home then your not gonna get low cost clicks to start with, you need to match the 1st page bids and drop your cpc as it goes down! i am getting some clicks on good keywords i have found for .30 / .40 cents. it takes time to reasearch etc

Stick at it buddy

[Aerion Miles Company: One-24 Contribution Level: 2]

depending on your budget, you could pay UGC to do your campaigns? save you around 10 years of learning

if your bidding on keywords such as make money online or work from home then your not gonna get low cost clicks to start with, you need to match the 1st page bids and drop your cpc as it goes down! i am getting some clicks on good keywords i have found for .30 / .40 cents. it takes time to reasearch etc

Stick at it buddy

Who are UGC?