I know, it’s been too long since I’ve posted. But that’s only because I’ve been working my tail off (or hunting). That’s right, I’ve started a new company to own some of my ecommerce shops, I’ve done a ton at my day job, I’ve been out of town for family reasons, and the spare time in between all of that has been daddy/husband time. Oh well.
(And yes, I have to admin that dove season did open on September 1st and I was out for about 24 hours on a fishing/hunting trip. But can you blame me? I’m a Texas boy – fishing and hunting are almost like a requirement.)
Now it’s back to business…
I logged into my old Microsoft AdCenter account earlier today because I’ve seen some decent traffic coming from Bing.com lately. In fact, over the last three months Bing has surpassed my Yahoo organic traffic on at least three different sites. I haven’t used this old account for well over a year because I wasn’t able to generate jack crap worth of traffic for my niche. That’s ok, it really doesn’t fit the Live.com demo. But with Bing.com, the traffic was coming in organically and some of it was converting to sales. Light bulb, people! Let’s get more traffic from Bing.com using PPC. And what’s better than an old account that is already set up?
I log in and notice the account is on Credit Hold because my old card on file has been expired for months. So I updated the card, and was notified that my new payment method needed to be assigned to my account before I could use it. No prob. I go to the account settings page and get a “payment method not in db” error or something. Expected. I change the default billing and save. Done… but no change to the account. I access the account settings and get the error again. ok, what can I do now?
After digging around a little more I called the customer service and found that my account is dormant and there is no way to reactivate it. Well crap. I have to open up an entire new account now. But why was I able to access add new payment methods to a dormant account? Who knows? I was able to take Campaigns and Adgroups active (of course this didn’t show ads because the entire thing was on hold). It’s a little weird.
It’s just a small setback at this point because I’ve got a good keyword list, ads, tracking URLs, whatever. So I set up the account, everything is going great, say “ok” to the $5 charge, and BAM!!!! I get this:
Seriously? I just signed up after not using these guys for well over a year and here’s my first experience. Let’s hope once they get their errors in order I can generate some converting traffic or I’m out for another while.
Popularity: 7% [?]
