Hi.
I've just started using Adcenter in the past few days, after using Google's Adwords exclusively in the past. I'd heard good things about Adcenter so I thought I would give it a try.
The problem I'm having at the moment, is that I am hardly getting any impressions for my keywords at all.
I appreciate the search volume is going to be much less than over in Google, but still, I expect the impressions to be greater based on the number of searches given in the keyword tool.
24 hours ago, I thought I would just throw an ad up for a very broad keyword just to see if I got more impressions.
I used the keyword 'Disney'.
According to the tool, the number of searches last month was 335,357. Great! That's around 11,000 searches per day. I'm bound to see some impressions for this.
I had to wait a while for my keyword to be approved (I assume because it's a trademark, and it needs to be checked I'm not doing any untoward). The campaign was approved and I was set to go.
I'd set my monthly budget at £50, and my keyword bid at £0.05. Even at this low bid, I was being told I'd get 443 clicks.
I was just direct linking to a page for the purpose of testing, before going to the effort of creating a site.
So, 24 hours later, the results are:
6 impressions
0 clicks
5.67 - average position
What am I doing wrong?
Surely a generic keyword such as this should get many more impressions than this. I'm based in the UK, but I checked the bing.com site, set my country to United States, did a search for 'Disney' and there's only 1 or 2 ads showing, but not mine. So, how I get an average position of 5.67 I don't know.
I don't even particularly want to promote stuff to do with Disney, but I'm getting so frustrated at not getting many impressions that I just wanted to test a popular search term.
I really want to stick with Adcenter and get this right, but I'm clearly doing something wrong somewhere.
Can anyone help? I've been through the troubleshooting videos, but still can't see where I'm going wrong.
kind regards,
Nick