Spy on Competitions Adwords Bids

question is, where do these companies get this info, and how do they access it? Anyone even have the slightest idea? Is it a database they are accessing or scraping or what?

 

see:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=4844171&postcount=7

 

Just an approximate value:

Just register a domain in any tld of your important keyword
park it in Sedo.com
Now click your competitors ad that you find while visiting your domain

the next day see how much you have been credited.,
Assuming you got 1$ for a click and assuming sedo pays you 50% of what it gets and google adsense pays 50% of what it gets to sedo.,

You Get 1$
Sedo Gets 2$
Google Gets 4$

So the CPC of your Competitor maynot be more than 4$

Just an assumption and approxmiate idea to know that you are moving in the right track

This not right to do and clicking your own ad is wrong

 

Interesting post, thanks for that.

Is there any way of telling a competitors budget for the day? I'm not fussed about how much they pay for each word, but one of our competitors is on there all the time it seems. We spend what I think is a fortune but it can't be anything compared to what the others are paying.

 

I dont think you can do anything for that, But you can run your impression share report which will give some idea

 

Is the impression share report available from within my Google Adwords campaign? Can't seem to find it.

 

its in the run reports section

 

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