Hello folks. I am at loss here. Whatever I do, the min bid for any keyword is 11$ I emailed AdWords support several times but got the "cooked" replies. I have no idea as of what else I can do to increase the quality score and would appreciate any comment/advice. The page: http://www.proventowork.com/review-survey-scout.php the ad: Survey Scout Review Review of Top Get Paid for Your Opinion Program. Read it Now! ProvenToWork.com/Survey-Scout/ Keywords (all priced at $11): survey scout review [survey scout review] "[survey scout review]" Thanks.
1- Add more content text to your landing page 2 - Remove/Modify the common text that you have with this website (scroll down to the "SCOUT SURVEY - 4TH CHOICE * * * " tittle): ...this kills your Content Quality from you site: as Google don't like coping content from other sites. Also, not sure but looks your site is very slow, what is your hosting provider?
Thanks for your insights, Micromag. I appreciate you taking time and giving me some suggestions. Also, thanks for "http://www.top-paid-survey.com/" site. I've never seen it before. The text you are referring to is taken from the survey scout site. But I see the point and will change it. I am with Dreamhost. They are having some issues today. The site is quite fast normally.
I forgot to mention, use this guidelines and probably your keywords price will decrease from $11 value: https://adwords.google.com/select/siteguidelines.html
Well folks, I would definetely post the results here, but I doubt that I will have anything good to report unless I bite the bullet and pay what Google wants for a couple of days -then the quality score will be reevaluated and probably lowered. BUT, I cannot afford paying 11$ per click to get this going. I emailed Google asking to send a bot to reevaluate the quality score but they do not seem to be interested... As for the google quality guidelines, if you will go through them you will see that my site fullfills them all. Thanks to everyone who responded.
resend all ads of the ad group and wait some hours. Your min bid will decrease from $11 if you follow the guidelines focusing in a lot of content in the main page and the subpages - believe me.
It's not true. Google takes weeks and months to update the QS according to my research these days... I met the same problem, too.
I personally prefer the recommendation that AdWords supports analyst provided me last week and worked with one the clients accounts that I manage. Have you tried to resend the ads to tell that it don't work in your "research"? ...and how is possible to tell that it takes months if the new Quality Algorithm has been Updated last week?
Create a new campaign, maybe even move the landing page to a new location for it. I am interested to know whether the duplicate content harmed the quality score.
That is a good suggestion, but I do not have any robots exclusion rules. All bots are allowed to visit the site pages.
Supposedly the landing page bot will visit all sites at least once a month, and potentially more frequently. It could take up to a month, though, to see a change. Since the algorithm was just updated, I suspect most sites have been hit very recently, so you may be waiting a while for an update.
When I met the same problem, i did asked for help in the forum. Everyone was saying to improve quality score. I did the modification, however, there's no change to the inactive keywords after 24 hours. So I searched again in all the webmaster forums I know and found a thread discuss about the QS updating in webmasterworld. Some experienced webmaster claimed that QS review takes weeks or months to happen.