does $.01 CPC even work?

does bidding one cent on CPC even work? because if you only had to pay one cent for a visitor i dont know why everyone wouldnt be doing this, i mean they only charge you for visitors so....beats me

 

depends on your keywords, obviously you aren't going to get a lot of traffic from .01 a click in fact I don't know any keyword that would cost that little.

 

so what exactly would happen then, would it just never send you any traffic and never charge your account?

 

In most cases, your ads would just never show.
That's why people don't do it.

 

will it help my ads show if i add more placements?

 

Try bidding higher and then gradually lowering your bids. Depending on the niche, you may be able to get clicks as cheap as 2 cents, maybe 1 cent.

I keep reducing bids until the traffic drops off.

 

Arcade sites can get away with $.01 CPC.

 

Anyone will buy from a sidebar google ads?

 

what the best bid if you don't know what exactly profit keyword

 

Calculate what your max bid would be assuming different conversion rates, e.g., 1% and 5%. Then you'll know what the max can be. Work down from there.

 

I think the cheapest way to go would be to start at .01(for 8 hours or so) and see how many time your ad is viewed... if 0, then change to .02 for 8 hours and so on... It's a really slow method, but it's the cheapest way to go!