Less Ads Showing At The Moment

**Pete Taylor** · 18-09-08

Just had a look around some keyphrases and it looks like Google have a problem.

I only see 2 ads on the term 'house insurance'

**Barry** · 18-09-08

It looks as flooded as ever for me

Ta

Baz

**Pete Taylor** · 18-09-08

Just searched 'package holidays' on the co.uk site and --- nothing!

**Barry** · 18-09-08

Try using a proxy, maybe its something to do with you I/P

I am seeing loads of adds for both those phrases - though I bet you thought you'd be onto a winner for a minute 'what no ads on "package holidays", I could make a killing!!'

Baz

**Pete Taylor** · 19-09-08

Very strange this one?

Still not seeing any ads using Internet Explorer, but if I use the same PC in the same internet connection with both Firefox & Chrome, I see all the usual adverts.

This could start a good conspisory theory!

**aldo** · 28-09-08

try clearing your cookies on IE

**tbp** · 28-09-08

I`ve also seen less ad's showing, and as I mentioned in another thread thanking Google for slapping me, its done me a lot of good.

There are big changes going on with Adwords at the moment, based around their quality score system and the minimum bid removal. However, although it started 2 weeks ago, it seems to be in the process of gradually introduced. I`ve seen changes in the layout of my adwords account that others still can't see yet.

It's the same with the adwords adverts, some areas are running as normal, some have had the number of ad's drastically cut due to having the quality score lowered.

I think in the coming weeks they`ll be a lot of changes in how many ad's are displayed. At the moment I think there are bugs and its being harsher than they wanted, but it may be intended.

The same thing happened around this time last year, and the number of ads dropped until people worked out ways to get around it.