Confusing Situation

I am signed up through overture and it appears i am now getting about 50 hits per hour from my campaign but overture is showing nothing. I assume they aren't updating in real time so how often do they update?

And does anyone have any news on when Overture plans ons tarting to actually compete with google by showing us impressions prior to clicks, allowing easier editing, and not losing data by accidentally clicking the back button after you just spent 4 hours filling out the god blessed keyword stuff one by one and were on about the 5th from last page!!

Man I was severely pissed... Google is light years ahead.

That brings me to another topic. A while back I ran a Ad Words campaign and di not optimize it at ALL.. I didn't think it was possible to do as bad as I did ... 4 clicks on 4,000 impressions... Yeah, I kid you not... It wasn't THAT badly written and it was fairly targetted I expected atleast 1 in 200 to click - lol ...

Anyways, I cancelled those campaigns months ago and spent 4 hours entering keywords, descriptions, etc in for a new campaign - and I had spots that should have been getting 10,000 impressions per day not showing up at all. I found ONE of my paid lisitngs and even though it was about 75% of the number 1 spots payment I was listed 50 deep, yes 50 ... paying a little under a dollar..

What can I do so they stop penalizing me for that one bad campaign? I'm sure that's what it was ...

I'm not sure that you're being penalized for that old campaign, it might just be that you're not bidding enough.