adwords newbie

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by falco85, Dec 14, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi :) I'd like to use adwords to increas traffic on some of my sites. Could you please tell me what's the average cost for a good price/quality rate? I don't have much money to invest so I would like to know if PPC is good for me. Thank you :)
     
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    GRIM Prominent Member

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    Depends fully on your keywords you will be targetting, if you don't have alot to invest I'd personally suggest working on improving your natural search result positions over PPC....Spending the $$ on some directory submissions would be a good start.
     
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    say for instance $5 per day for a small campaign worth $150/month .. on an average how many clicks would bring? the page i'm taking about has got a nice CTR on adsense . i have already bought several sitewide links
     
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    That depends on the keywords you are targetting. Some keywords will get you 1 click for that money, others will get you hundreds for the $5. It all depends on your keyword selection.
     
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    it's for a spanish website for a spanish audience.. i've targeted it to the specific countries I want. The traffic estimator gave me a total of 0.78 cents per day with the keywords i've selected, average good ranking (from 3 to 5) and estimate 30 clicks per day :D i've put a 1$ max per day, so it will be $30 maximum .. I'll see what will be their effects, this is just to experiment if it works i'll increase :)
     
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    Watch it closely - the traffic/position estimator is usually waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off.
     
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    what do you mean? I've set a limit per day will it be respected?
     
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    Your spending limit will enforced.

    I was just saying that the estimates the tool provides border on worthless. I created a new ad group last night at about 1:00 am. The estimator told me to expect under 5 clicks per day. As of 9:30 this morning (8 1/2 hours later) I already have 223 clicks. That's a bit off wouldn't you say?
     
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    lol :D where can i find some tips on how to do a priceworthy campaign?
     
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    What do you mean by "priceworthy"?
     
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    MM sorry for my bad english :) I want to mean that I want to increase my traffic in a stable way!
     
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    Pick your keywords, write your ads, test test and test some more. Analyze the results (what ad/keyword did the best?) and expand from there.
     
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    thank you for your advice ;)
     
    falco85, Dec 14, 2005 IP