Very interesting... keycomplete.com looks expensive to join. Any software solutions to run from my box?
If you cant make profit from them tools then your in the wrong business, the price to join can be written off as expenses
jabb, my money comes from the tech end of the net, iMarketing is a new beast for me. Can you tell me what details these services offer that I would not get from prg's like keyword elite?
Spyfu.com is fantastic, but useless for me because I need to do a UK search. Anyone know of anything similar that covers the UK?
I joined spyfu and did some searches on 3(US) adwords accounts that I manage and the results were incorrect on all 3. Don't know what else to say other than if it won't read my accounts correctly I can't trust the results for the accounts I am spying on??
why you wanna know their bids? you should see on what position you have maximum CTR..and then just try to keep that position spyfu doesn't seem very accurate to me...
my customers like winning without throwing more money than ness. in goog's lap really it's just another tool!
Both GoogSpy and SpyFU are powered by: http://www.velocityscape.com/WebScraperPlus.aspx I am not sure if that tool is useful for keyword analysis or not, I think not. But, interesting anyway.
A very good question... If you want to know how much you'll have to bid to appear in different positions, you have to test. Your competitors have totally different quality scores to you, so their bids are irrelevant. You should test different bids, and pick the position that makes you the most money. Your bid determines your position, and your position determines your cpc - if bidding £1 gets you fourth, and bidding £0.50 also gets you fourth, either bid will cost you the same. See my blogs on finding the sweet spot and how quality scores work if you want more details... http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/blog/ppc-advertising-where-is-the-sweet-spot.html http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/...your-adverts-position-and-why-it-matters.html
Another thing you might want to take into consideration is dayparting. Are your competitors dayparting and if so what times and what days are they upping and lowering their bids. This definitely will affect what placement your ad is.