AdWords Not Displaying

[accelerator]

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What are common reasons for your AdWords not displaying? I've just resurrected a campaign by my ads aren't showing, any pointers?

Thanks

[Shane]

Assuming other ads are showing fine in that account and it's only ads in one campaign that aren't displaying then here's the first things I'd be looking at:

1 could be due to campaign has passed an old end date if one was set way back when you first created that campaign
2 could be due to your campaign targeting, is it set to where you expect it to be.. e.g UK
3 could be your ad is awaiting editoral approval (some keywords/ads rigger manual review)
4 could be your campaign budget is too low (some people set them really low when they pause a campaign so if they mess and put it back on by accident it doesn't blow big budget) or it could be set to spread through the day rather than non stop so just showing sporadically
5 could be due to campaign is set to only run at scheduled times
6 could be (if a direct to merchant PPC advert) due to being outbid by other ads using the same display url

if other ads are displaying fine other adgroups running in the same campaign then I'd say it's most likey that the ad has been flagged for editoral review.

[accelerator]

Thanks for that. Fortunately, after a delay of approx. 15 mins they have just started to appear, does it normally take that long once you've reenabled a campaign?

Rgds

[Shane]

yip can be anything from 1 to like 30 mins.. if it's going to run without needing an editorial review although I'd say on average 5/10 mins is usually what I've seen

[accelerator]

OK thanks, maybe I just need to become a bit more patient ...

Rgds