Hello, I've been using Adwords for two years now, I'm using it to try and promote my affiliate marketing websites, I've created a variety of campaigns for several products, when I started, in the first year or so, it went pretty good, I've managed to get traffic at descent rates. But for the last year or so, something happened, adwords turned hundreds of my keywords into an "inactive" status, since they request enormous amounts per clicks - between $1 per click, to $5 and even $10, which is absolutely ridiculous. I've contacted adwords support several times, basically what I understood from them is that maybe If I'll change my ad text it would work, but that was useless, as most of my keywords are already optimized, some of them are four words phrases that are very specific, and still I'm required to bid these enormous amounts. I've now opened a new adwords account, hoping maybe that would help, meanwhile I've copied one of my adgroups to my new account and paused it on the older one, and It's still requesting the same high bids.... I'm very frustrated with this situation, and google adwords support are plain useless about this.... can anyone help me understand what's going on and what can be done?? Thanks!
I think this is your biggest problem: As Google have clamped down on MFA websites (and site's looking to make a quick profit from affiliates) your quality score seems to have suffered. Changing domain may work in the short-term but I expect the problem is your content, maybe try using a landing page which doesn't contain advertising but which links to internal pages with your affiliate links?
Ok, I've made a little experiment: I've opened two identical adgroups under the same campagin, for the same product - on the first one, I've had it to lead to a page on my website, that has the same content as the original page that sells the product with the affiliate link, only that I deleted all links from the page, so I only had the text (whiche is relevant I guess ) and that's it. Adwords kept asking me for $1 - $5 per click. on the second adgroup, I've linked it to a page on a website that is not mine, a page that is ranked #1 on google in the regular search, for this search phrase. Adwords asked me for only $0.03 as min Bid. So what conclusions can I draw? A. I'm still asked for high bids since my domain is blacklisted for being affiliate oriented and I should create a new one, and it would be worth the time. B. I'm asked for low bids on the other site, not because its not an affiliate website (it sells the product independently) but because it's already doing great on the regular goolge search, and if I'll create a new domain I'll still won't be able to change anything since it wouldn't do as well on google (Even if I don't put any affiliate links) but then what's the logic with adsense, if your'e paying them to appear on a certain search term because your'e not doing good for it on the regular search?
Google can only base itself on the traffic already going to your site. The CPC will hurtle down if you get a good CTR, likewise if on the other you had a bad CTR it would hurtle up. I've never found its estimations to be accurate. EDIT - Sounds like your click through ratios went below 0.5%, that's their minimum threshold.
you mean the traffic coming from adwords right? I can't get any CTR with my current websites if it wants at least $1.00 per click....
When a keyword is made inactive it is usually because your CTR falls below 5 per 1000. Maybe you need to pick more targetted keywords with less competition.
I disagree when you change the domain, you will not get any new results. secrets in side words itself
Your strategy is wrong. Too many affiliates bidding for same words shoots the price up. Write your special comment on the product that you are trying to sell. Make your own video or MP3. Try to presell the product. Make a list of visitors. Please read my post on lead generation. Search for "Webso + lead generation". regards Prasaad