In July when Google decided to up the required bids for my keywords to 50p or £2.50 when I had previously paid 6p to 10p I took no action and waited to see how I coped with a major cut in advertising. (Not too bad)

Just recently one of my best performing keywords suddenly became active again for a few days at 6p per click. It has just become inactive again so I thought, ok, I must be just on the border of active/inactive so I'll up my bid to 7p or 8p. However, on entering Google I find that Google are requesting a miimum bid of £2.50 for this word. That's just mad!

Anyone else finding strange happenings on AdWords?

P.S. I'd love to hear whether any of you rehashed your page and advert content and saw your minimum bids reduced back to below 10p.