Tuesday, September 15, 2009

3 Reasons Why Your AdCenter Campaign Could Be Paused

Microsoft mutual whatever info, aiming  to "demystify" downtime in adCenter campaigns. adCenter advertisers haw sometimes encounter that their campaigns are paused, when they analyse their accounts. Microsoft obloquy threesome reasons you strength wager this.

The prototypal possibility is that you've reached your regular budget limit. When a individual sets their monthly budget, they crapper also ordered a regular budget limit. If a crusade spends this turn before the modify of some presented day, it could termination in the "Budget Paused" message, and ad won't be served again until the incoming day.

Budget Paused in adCenter

Another possibility is that the crusade budget is separated up crossways the month. "With a $3,000 monthly budget, adCenter would allot roughly $100 per period to a crusade streaming in a 30-day month," explains >Microsoft's Tina Kelleher. "When that $100 has been spent on some presented day, the crusade position changes to Budget Paused until the incoming day."

Budget Paused in adCenter

The another possibility is that the statement has been ordered up to pay the budget until it's depleted. This effectuation that depending on the popularity of your keywords and the bids you hit ordered for them, this could verify some turn of time. Once that money is spent, the budget is paused.

So, the moralistic of the news is: undergo how your budget is ordered up, and guardian it. You crapper modify it if requirement be, but if you don't ready an receptor on it, you haw be symptom instance with a paused crusade that you'd kinda be outlay actually having your ads shown.


Microsoft Answers Common adCenter API Questions

Microsoft says it has had a aggregation of questions lately most admittance to adCenter API tokens, and the consort has addressed these issues on the adCenter API blog. The API information is ease in the "pilot" phase, so API tokens are not acquirable to everybody.

"Each letter is reviewed for destined criteria," explains Microsoft's Chris Norred. "Users who hit a road achievement of monthly expenditures with adCenter are provided admittance to the pilot. Other criteria are also considered."

Chris Norred"We obtain individual requests from newborn businesses or developers who physique tools or services using the adCenter API and hit goals to have more spend," Norred continues. "Currently, however, hold for the adCenter API in the airman form cannot help every these possibleness customers."

The API lets users create apps that can:

- Create and control adCenter campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Obtain the position on ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Pause and uphold ad groups.

- Generate keyword estimates.

- Generate reports most crusade performance.

- Perform ad assemble targeting.

Microsoft is thinking to modify adCenter API access, as substantially as admittance to more APIs attendant to Microsoft business services. Currently admittance to the API is restricted to the highest-spending customers, and tokens aren't acquirable for acquire or finished another channels, but in the future, admittance module be unsealed up for users who foregather "a peak criteria."

Microsoft does not calculate for tokens, and the cost of ingest veto their reselling. The consort says it module ready fascinated parties updates via the blog.

 


Monday, September 14, 2009

Microsoft Answers Common adCenter API Questions

Microsoft says it has had a aggregation of questions lately most admittance to adCenter API tokens, and the consort has addressed these issues on the adCenter API blog. The API information is ease in the "pilot" phase, so API tokens are not acquirable to everybody.

"Each letter is reviewed for destined criteria," explains Microsoft's Chris Norred. "Users who hit a road achievement of monthly expenditures with adCenter are provided admittance to the pilot. Other criteria are also considered."

Chris Norred"We obtain individual requests from newborn businesses or developers who physique tools or services using the adCenter API and hit goals to have more spend," Norred continues. "Currently, however, hold for the adCenter API in the airman form cannot help every these possibleness customers."

The API lets users create apps that can:

- Create and control adCenter campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Obtain the position on ad groups, keywords, and ads.

- Pause and uphold ad groups.

- Generate keyword estimates.

- Generate reports most crusade performance.

- Perform ad assemble targeting.

Microsoft is thinking to modify adCenter API access, as substantially as admittance to more APIs attendant to Microsoft business services. Currently admittance to the API is restricted to the highest-spending customers, and tokens aren't acquirable for acquire or finished another channels, but in the future, admittance module be unsealed up for users who foregather "a peak criteria."

Microsoft does not calculate for tokens, and the cost of ingest veto their reselling. The consort says it module ready fascinated parties updates via the blog.

 


Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Bing Search Summit Reveals More About Bing

You could wager a aggregation from a #badabing hashtag. If you wager that on Twitter, you'll encounter every kinds of tweets from those in attendance at Microsoft's Bing Search Summit.

It is engrossing to wager whatever of the things grouping are conversation most with regards to Bing, and as the wager engine is ease in its infancy, everybody wants to undergo every they can. If you dont' wager same wading finished heaps and heaps of tweets, relax. I've finished it for you (although I'm trusty there module be plentitude more since the instance of this writing).

Here are whatever highlights (or "hightweets" if you will):

@andybeal: Satya attractive whatever conference modify because Bing cashback shows modify prices than actually on the place

@davesnyder ostensibly Bing.com takes scraper sites (also famous as wager engines) to a full newborn take of scrapiness

@lizlawley but @bing, the tone utterer specifically settled "community" in a assorted collection from "search". mood of mindset.

Vanessa Fox Tweets most Bing

@vanessafox If you poverty to opt-out from Bing waver advertisement on SERP, crapper ingest a nopreview meta tag. But waver haw process eligible clicks

@andybeal: When a Bing individual hover-previews your wager result, beam that accumulation to our scheme analytics (cool idea!)

@jenstar: Find and change options for binary campaigns on ad copy, parameters, etc is pretty modify in the adcenter screen

Jenstar tweets most AdCenter

@Mel66: adCenter Desktop has targeting settings in it (incremental bids, etc. )- meliorate than AW Editor (on this, anyway)

@andybeal: Average "information" wager conference consists of 6 assorted queries

@hharteveldt: #TripIt haw hv a possibleness competitor. Bing offers knowledge to spend searches, create realistic enter folders, deal on ethnic netwks

@adventuregirl: Learning most Save & Share featur 4 Bing- Ucan publsh TRAVEL content U encounter as ordered of course 4 Facebook- GREAT feature.

@GregBoser: <meta name="robots" content="nopreview"> to opt discover of bing hover.

Boser on opting discover of hover

@lizlawley: uncovering that http://bingle.pwnij.com/ is *very* multipurpose for scrutiny relevance/quality of results.

@michaelbonfils: Bing does not exhibit up for "search engine" on Bing.com. They should at small acquire an ad.

@localseoguide: requirement Silverlight to do engrossing things with Bing's Save&Share feature

@Oilman: sight 2 wikipedia results for nearly everything I wager for on bing

@andybeal: We meet had a rattling hurried countenance at what goes into Bing's algorithm--I conceive @oilman drop a bout ;-)

@andybeal: Satya promised Bing would not be equal to a platform, but it uses Silverlight for the modify features--which is not work for linux

@michaelbonfils: Bing shows up sort 1 for "decision engine" but not "search engine".

@denschaal: bing to start newborn features monthly

@Mel66 Site banishment today acquirable in adCenter - crapper eliminate at ad assemble and crusade take (up to 500 sites) #badabing

Greg Sterling has a countenance at the Satya Nadella keynote. You crapper wager whatever engrossing images here.


Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Bing Search Summit Reveals More About Bing

You could wager a aggregation from a #badabing hashtag. If you wager that on Twitter, you'll encounter every kinds of tweets from those in attending at Microsoft's Bing Search Summit. It is engrossing to wager whatever of the things people are conversation most with regards to Bing, and as the wager engine is still in its infancy, everybody wants to undergo every they can. If you dont' feel same wading finished heaps and heaps of tweets, relax. I've finished it for you (although I'm trusty there module be plenty more since the instance of this writing). Here are whatever highlights (or "hightweets" if you will): @andybeal: Satya attractive whatever conference heat because Bing cashback shows modify prices than actually on the place @davesnyder apparently Bing.com takes scraper sites (also famous as wager engines) to a full newborn take of scrapiness @lizlawley but @bing, the tone speaker specifically settled "community" in a assorted collection from "search". mood of mindset. @vanessafox If you poverty to opt-out from Bing waver advertisement on SERP, crapper use a nopreview meta tag. But waver haw process eligible clicks @andybeal: When a Bing individual hover-previews your wager result, send that accumulation to our scheme analytics (cool idea!) @jenstar: Find and change options for multiple campaigns on ad copy, parameters, etc is pretty modify in the adcenter desktop @Mel66: adCenter Desktop has targeting settings in it (incremental bids, etc. )- meliorate than AW Editor (on this, anyway) @andybeal: Average "information" wager session consists of 6 assorted queries @hharteveldt: #TripIt haw hv a possibleness competitor. Bing offers knowledge to save searches, create realistic enter folders, share on ethnic netwks @adventuregirl: Learning most Save & Share featur 4 Bing- Ucan publsh TRAVEL content U encounter as ordered of course 4 Facebook- GREAT feature. @GregBoser: <meta name="robots" content="nopreview"> to opt discover of bing hover. @lizlawley: uncovering that http://bingle.pwnij.com/ is *very* useful for scrutiny relevance/quality of results. @michaelbonfils: Bing does not exhibit up for "search engine" on Bing.com. They should at small acquire an ad. @localseoguide: requirement Silverlight to do engrossing things with Bing's Save&Share feature @Oilman: sight 2 wikipedia results for nearly everything I wager for on bing @andybeal: We meet had a really hurried countenance at what goes into Bing's algorithm--I conceive @oilman drop a tear ;-) @andybeal: Satya promised Bing would not be equal to a platform, but it uses Silverlight for the modify features--which is not work for linux @michaelbonfils: Bing shows up sort 1 for "decision engine" but not "search engine". @denschaal: bing to start newborn features monthly @Mel66 Site banishment today available in adCenter - crapper eliminate at ad assemble and crusade take (up to 500 sites) #badabing Greg Sterling has a countenance at the Satya Nadella keynote. You crapper wager whatever engrossing images here.