I have various Adwords campaigns running both as part of my work here and personally, but I have one campaign where dynamic keyword insertion is not working yet the others are. Right now I don’t have time to contact the rep

You know the way of getting the ad to show the keyword/phrase that was searched for?

Buy {Keyword:Some Backup Phrase}

If I leave the backup empty I even get a blank space on the ad on the search network.

Now I am going mental trying to get this to work on one particular account. Hell, I even copied it several times, just to make doubly sure! You’ve got to believe that I tried a lot of options before posting here.

I even searched Google and found other people have reported this.

Has anyone else seen this or know what gives, as right now my ads are as cack as cack can be?

Take a look at a pretty competitive term on Google:

online poker

Scan through and see which one stands out a little.

Got it?

VictoriasSecret.com: The Official Site of Victoria’s Secret
Victoria’s Secret - Shop the world’s most glamourous bras, sexy sleepwear, lingerie
and swimwear. Women’s fashion clothing and apparel, shoes, cosmetics, …
www.victoriassecret.com/ - 31k - 27 Jul 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

So how the hell can VS rank for that when they dont even mention the term on page. Then in the back of my mind I remember a viral game that they launched:

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/3129

Well those sneaky (or accidently sneaky) folks at VS now have a meta Refresh from the “link loved” page straight to their main page.

So what does this tell me, either Google is shit with relevancy OR they can’t handle meta refreshes.

both options are not good imho