Hi, I have this great idea on how to purchase very cheap advertising using very long tail keywords for cheap using Google Adwords. Yet, I'm afraid Google may not like it, and/or I may be sued by competing businesses. Here is my idea. Instead of the general term "widgets", I will use "flowers", as this may make the idea easier to understand. Remember, I'm not selling flowers, just an example. First, of all I can sell flowers at a 75% cheaper then you can buy them locally, and every local community in America has several flower stores. What if I bought a yellow pages CD, extracted the names of every local flower store in America, and used these company names for my long tail keyword list? I can even include zip codes or town names in the keyword lists. Then if someone searched example.. "Alisha's Flower Shop 43214" or "Alexa's Flowers Pittsburgh, PA" My advertisement of "Half Price Flowers!" would show up, and I only paid pennies for this listing. Is this possible? Will I get shutdown before I begin? Will I be able to buy these longtail keywords for only pennies per click? Any help is much appreciated. Regards, Wyatt
Well Wyatt12 this actually sounds like a great idea. So great that I was sure that Google would have a problem with it. So I decided to look it up. I looked through the Google documentation and could not find a rule that addressed this behavior. Unfortunately, the way that Google governs Adwords you can not count on finding all of the rules spelled out. I will do some more reading and see if I can find more information about this. Right now I would say go for it--but you should probably wait for a little more feedback from others. Good Luck.
It's a good idea, i think google would be okay with it. the only problem i see is that who the heck searches for "Alisha's Flower Shop 43214" I am pretty sure the impression will be very low, as most people use yellow pages if they have that type of info already.
I am pretty sure i have seen it in action, the best advice i can offer is to try it and see what happens and also to let us know
I search for businesses like that. I like to put in the zip so that the results are close to my location.
Well not for people searching just for "Alisha's Flower Shop 43214"... yet I will probably have 5-10 long tail keywords just for "Alisha's Flower Shop"... eg. Alisha's Flower Shop 43214 Alisha's Flower Shop Pittsburgh Alisha's Flower Shop Canal Street ALSO, I will be doing it for every flower shop in America. This could be a total of a million keywords listings. Therefore, I think I will see some decent amount of traffic. Another question.. Will my ads come up if people search for a certain flower shop using google maps? Wyatt
Clever idea, Wyatt. If it's not explicitly listed as a rule from Google then I would say give it a shout. In fact, if you go to Google right now and type in "Alisha's flower shop" you will see there's already an ad running for some flower company based out of the Toronto area in Canada. With that said, it seems like fair game - so why not? And in response to your question about the cost of clicks, well, I would imagine it's going to be quite low because there's little to no competition. Again, good luck.
Hey, I just noticed Google showing flower ads within this post. HaHaha. I don't think anyone visiting this page is looking to purchase flowers. Wyatt