Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'msn adcenter'

Like most PPC campaign systems, there is a default cap at how many keywords, ad groups and so on you can have per account. Microsoft adCenter has their limits to: Keywords: 10,000 per adGroupAds: 20 per adGroupKeyword Account Limit: 100,000...

Posted on March 28, 2008 7:27 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread says Microsoft is inviting some adCenter advertisers to beta test a new ad editor. The acronym for this product is ACE, standing for adCenter Editor (Beta). According to the member in the thread, it appears to be...

Posted on March 26, 2008 7:13 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that several Microsoft adCenter advertisers are recently unhappy with the quality of traffic they are seeing from adCenter. The conversion rates on adCenter, as reported by a few advertisers, has been as low as ever. WebmasterWorld...

Posted on March 18, 2008 7:52 AM

Good news adCenter advertisers, Microsoft has finally fixed the broken dynamic keyword feature in adCenter. We first reported the news back on February 21st, but even then it was an issue that was fairly old. But it should now be...

Posted on February 28, 2008 9:20 AM

Microsoft adCenter has allowed dynamic keyword insertion pretty much since they officially launched the program. But for a while now, the keyword insertion feature has not been working properly. A WebmasterWorld thread asks if the feature has been fixed yet....

Posted on February 21, 2008 7:23 AM

Last month, Microsoft announced an adCenter Excel 2007 plugin. Well, boys and girls, it's finally a reality. The Microsoft adCenter Excel Add In is ready to download. Note that it's a beta version as Microsoft continually improves on the product....

Posted on January 10, 2008 9:14 AM

Interested on getting some cash? Well, you may be able to with the new MSN adCenter Affiliate Program. For every advertiser you refer to adCenter, you'll get a percentage of their signups. Cool. It may help others too, as some...

Posted on December 19, 2007 10:29 AM

Microsoft announced a new feature that advertisers can use make their search marketing ad management easier with Microsoft adCenter. The tool is an adCenter add-in for Excel. It will allow you to: Easily extract keywords from any website, just by...

Posted on December 6, 2007 7:14 AM

Microsoft adCenter announced that it has new features for campaign management, including immediate editorial feedback on ads and keywords, a daily budget for campaigns, campaign importing tools that are compatible with AdWords Editor, and reporting access, among other nice features....

Posted on October 30, 2007 9:15 AM

In May, Barry reported that MSN adCenter would be offering an accreditation program. At this time, it's only available in beta to customers residing in the US, according to adCenterEU. By the end of this year, it will also be...

Posted on October 8, 2007 8:49 AM

An advertiser using MSN adCenter has a product listed for $69.99. However, he can't actually feature the price in the ad because the number "69" is not allowed. I tried to update an ad this morning with the price of...

Posted on October 4, 2007 8:56 AM

On WebmasterWorld, a number of webmasters have seen an abnormal number of clicks from Microsoft's IPs since August 1st. Interestingly enough, the clicks are going to PPC links and not organic links, so it's not simply a spider. A number...

Posted on September 17, 2007 9:31 AM

Search Engine Watch Forums member Discovery shares an email he received from Microsoft. In the email, there are a number of features that will enhance adCenter: Save time with fast and thorough editorial reviews for new ad groups. Create campaigns...

Posted on September 7, 2007 9:15 AM

If you notice dashes in the place of the numbers in your adCenter statistics reports, then no need to worry. In a WebmasterWorld thread, adCenterEU explained that the dashes represent that there was a timeout failure between the reporting and...

Posted on August 8, 2007 8:01 AM

Has anyone created any campaigns in MSN adCenter but all keywords and ads are still "pending?" That's what happened to one guy at WebmasterWorld. According to him, the "editorial review [appears to be] grinding to a halt." adCenterEU confirms his...

Posted on August 7, 2007 8:45 AM

Yesterday, Digg made an announcement that it dropped Google as its advertising partner and has chosen to sign a three-year exclusive advertising deal with Microsoft. Search Engine Land quotes Microsoft's Steve Berkowitz about the move: Our collaboration with Digg is...

Posted on July 26, 2007 9:02 AM

Microsoft Office Live's adManager Beta search advertising service will be adding Ask Sponsored Listings, allowing for advertisers to display ads on both MSN and Ask.com. Over at WebmasterWorld, martinibuster links to an InformationWeek article that has more: The addition of...

Posted on July 18, 2007 10:12 AM

According to the MSN adCenter Blog and werty on WebmasterWorld, Microsoft adCenter has released click quality reports to provide advertisers with more information about received clicks. adCenter has now classified low-quality clicks that will not be billed, which include invalid...

Posted on July 6, 2007 10:05 AM

About a month ago we reported that Microsoft adCenter Conversion Tracking Turned Off Automatically. The bug continued to linger and linger. Finally, last night, adCenter411, Microsoft's official adCenter representative, has confirmed they found the issue of the bug and fixed...

Posted on June 19, 2007 7:39 AM

I reported this at SES NY but I have now found a thread confirming this at WebmasterWorld. adCenterEU confirmed there will be some type of accreditation program for adCenter managers. Thanks for your interest in the adCenter accreditation scheme. We...

Posted on May 16, 2007 8:00 AM

If you are a Microsoft adCenter advertiser, I recommend you login to your account and check to make sure that the conversion tracking part is set to the way you like it. Two advertisers noticed over the weekend that the...

Posted on May 14, 2007 8:02 AM

The official Microsoft adCenter representative has confirmed that they are using Intellitxt ads "to drive trial and interest in Live Search itself." Intellitxt is a contextual product that shows ads within the text you are reading for the those keywords...

Posted on May 7, 2007 7:04 AM

I hate to say I told you so, but in this case, I told you so. Tamar reported on Monday, Microsoft adCenter Using Matching Criteria Other than Keyword Searches to Display Ads. In that, she explained how the terms and...

Posted on May 3, 2007 7:03 AM

I reported earlier this week that adCenter advertisers noticed a drop in traffic, which we later found out was due to them adding a quality factor to the ads displayed in live.com. Microsoft claimed that "this improvement will ensure that...

Posted on April 19, 2007 7:49 AM

If you are an advertisers on Microsoft's Live.com adCenter, and you noticed your reports not being updated, you are not alone. A WebmasterWorld thread has details of adCenter reports not updating since 7:00 am EST on February 11th. adCenter411, the...

Posted on February 13, 2007 8:16 AM

There honestly has not been much discussion in the various forums about the recently released adCenter beta by Microsoft. There is a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums that calls the new beta more confusing and has slightly more bugs....

Posted on January 30, 2007 7:34 AM

Yesterday there was some confusion on if Microsoft adCenter Advertisers Being Forced into Content Network? The official adCenter representative at WebmasterWorld, adCenter411, has replied with more details, to clear things up. A select number of adCenter customers are being migrated...

Posted on January 19, 2007 7:27 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports Microsoft adCenter advertisers receiving emails saying that they may undergo an account audit. I suspect these account audits are random and allow Microsoft to see if there advertisers are complying with their terms of service. The...

Posted on January 18, 2007 7:32 AM

Big conference is taking place now, named eComXpo. In any event, a bunch of PPC engines are there giving away coupons. One accessible coupon for you is from MSN adCenter, they are giving away $50 in free clicks for new...

Posted on October 26, 2006 7:45 AM

Does Microsoft adCenter, like Google AdWords & others have an API (application protocol interface) for developers to build software around? The purpose of an API is to help streamline, automate and easily access data from a 3rd party application. They...

Posted on October 18, 2006 8:04 AM

adCenter411, the Microsoft adCenter representative at Search Engine Watch Forums said a bug in the system auto rejected a bulk of keywords a while back. But they are working to fix the issue and reach out to those to resubmit....

Posted on October 18, 2006 7:54 AM

This is shocking, if true. A Search Engine Watch Forum thread has two accounts reporting the same issue. I decided to use Phrase match for the whole campaign except one keyword. To my surprise, their system automatically added the Exact...

Posted on October 5, 2006 6:55 AM

BlackbeardSEO writes that when he tried to bulk upload 3,000 keywords to Microsoft adCenter, it returned an error and does not upload the keywords. BlackbeardSEO explained that this only started happening with the new update of the adCenter product this...

Posted on September 29, 2006 7:20 AM

WebmasterWorld has a new Microsoft representative named adCenterEU who will be the European arm of adCenter411. adCenterEU explains his/her role... I've just joined the Microsoft adCenter Community Team and will be based out of our London office. The idea is...

Posted on September 21, 2006 7:17 AM

WebmasterWorld has a bug report that describes how since last Friday morning, September 15th, adCenter had a security issue. Basically, as I understand it, the conversion tracking script from Microsoft was using an expired secure site certificate. What happens when...

Posted on September 19, 2006 7:49 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread accounts a Microsoft adCenter advertiser getting billed over $1,500 after having paused an ad he was running. Not only that, he paused the ad over 60 hours ago and the ad has yet to...

Posted on September 11, 2006 7:19 AM

We thought in the past that the keyword limit at adCenter was about 40-50 thousand keywords per account. We now know that the limit is 100,000 keywords and 20 ads per order. Of course, like last time, you are allowed...

Posted on September 4, 2006 8:49 AM

Two days ago we reported on What Would Cause "No Such Link" to Display on adCenter Click? The answer has now been provided at the Search Engine Watch Forums thread by the adCenter rep. As I suspected, "there was no...

Posted on August 18, 2006 7:17 AM

BrianM at Search Engine Watch Forums posted a thread explaining that some Microsoft adCenter ads in MSN Search are landing to an MSN page that has no content, outside of this html produced: <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>No Such Link</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY><H1>No Such Link</H1></BODY>...

Posted on August 16, 2006 8:00 AM

MSN's Microsoft adCenter now appears to be live in the UK. To sign up go to adcenter.microsoft.co.uk. WebmasterWorld member, inbound, said he received an email at 8am announcing the launch. The launch happened when it turned Tuesday, in the UK,...

Posted on August 15, 2006 9:16 AM

The MSN adCenter blog announced that "Microsoft adCenter will launch in the U.K. this week!" Got that right, starting Tuesday 15th August, the Microsoft properties, aka MSN Search and Windows Live Search, will be serving up adCenter ads 100% of...

Posted on August 14, 2006 7:28 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread notes of a BusinessWeek report that Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are coming together to form standards on what is an "invalid click." The Internet's leading search engines are teaming up with an advertising trade group to...

Posted on August 3, 2006 7:52 AM

AussieWebmaster started a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums listing some of the features we should expect from the August 5th upgrade. - Now, use Microsoft adCenter with the Firefox 1.5 browser! - Daily, weekly and monthly data will be...

Posted on August 1, 2006 8:20 AM