Anyone have success with google addwords?
Tony Caduto
it's showing minumn bids of 10 dollars for keywords like postgresql.
At 10 bucks per click that is not much advertising :-0
David Ridgway
"Tony Caduto" <sup...@amsoftwaredesign.com> wrote in message
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>I signed up for this to target postgresql and it seems to be a scam, it's
>showing minumn bids of 10 dollars for keywords like postgresql.
>
> At 10 bucks per click that is not much advertising :-0
>
It's a competitive keyword, hence the price... and $10 is not very high
compared to some words. The more people that want it, the higher the price
goes. Some of our clients spend several thousand $ per month on AdWords.
Patrick Moloney
I agreee! And $10 seems awfully high to me, quite contrary to David's
comment. I wouldn't want to have to shell out $10 every time somebody
around the world clicked on my ad.
I used Adwords a few years ago and the prices for my words were in the
pennies. So I got a lot of clicks for $10. But I've heard the price has
really gone up for advertising at Google.
You can try to find words that are cheaper and maybe even target your
audience more precisely. Your primary word may be a little too broad.
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Craig Stuntz [TeamB]
> And $10 seems awfully high to me, quite contrary to David's
> comment.
Not really:
http://webmaster360.org/CyberNews/The-top-50-most-expensive-google-adwords.html
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Tony Caduto
> Patrick Moloney wrote:
>
>> And $10 seems awfully high to me, quite contrary to David's
>> comment.
> http://webmaster360.org/CyberNews/The-top-50-most-expensive-google-adwords.html
>
Guess that's why Google has billions and billions of dollars :-)
Tony Caduto
> I used Adwords a few years ago and the prices for my words were in the
> pennies. So I got a lot of clicks for $10. But I've heard the price has
> really gone up for advertising at Google.
> You can try to find words that are cheaper and maybe even target your
> audience more precisely. Your primary word may be a little too broad.
>
Granted PostgreSQL has become a lot more popular, but I still think
there is something fishy going on with AdWords. No matter what I do I
can't optimize the keywords at all. I started the campaign a few days
ago the the CPC bid was like 50 cents, then after the adds ran for
awhile they all jumped up to 10 bucks.
Every single word I have tried that has anything to do with PostgreSQL
sky rockets to 10 dollars.
They have made the process of optimizing the keywords into rocket
science. Google claims that the high bids are there to push the user
into better keyword optimization, but I think for some you just can't
optimize them the way they say you can.
Later,
Tony
GrandmasterB
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>showing minumn bids of 10 dollars for keywords like postgresql.
That seems awfully high, given that a google search only shows 2 ads for it.
Have you looked at selecting specific sites instead? You may have to pay
CPM that way, and it wont show up in searchers, but it might be cheaper.
Dont let google select sites for you - thats a total scam and will cost you
lots of money. There's far too many fake sites out there that exist solely
to rip you off through click fraud.
All else fails, there's always yahoo and MSN.
Robin Martain
Google Adwords works great or me. A lot lower bids then $10 too. But
it depends on who you are competing with.
Become specific with other words too (I understand that one is pretty
important though!). If I wanted to compete on the word 'bridal' only
then I would probably be paying out my life savings each time someone
clicked :-)
FWIW, I find the Yahoo/MSN version significantly more dificult to use
and more expensive to boot. They need to do a lot better then what
they currently offer to compete toe-to-toe with Google.
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Robin
www.bridalbuzz.com.au
Tony Caduto
>
> Have you looked at selecting specific sites instead? You may have to pay
> CPM that way, and it wont show up in searchers, but it might be cheaper.
> Dont let google select sites for you - thats a total scam and will cost you
> lots of money. There's far too many fake sites out there that exist solely
> to rip you off through click fraud.
>
> All else fails, there's always yahoo and MSN.
>
>
Hi,
Yes, I stopped the keyword campaign on google and now just have the site
specific ones going and I setup a account on MSN adwords, loads less
expensive for PostgreSQL searches, but far less traffic than google, oh
well, better than nothing I guess :-)