Flag this messageAdWords Welcome Pack: The top 4 things you should knowTuesday, May 11, 2010 11:09 PMFrom: This sender is DomainKeys verified"Google AdWords" <adwords-noreply@google.com>Add sender to ContactsTo: everything21centuryservices@yahoo.comEmail 1 of 6 Hello, Welcome to Google AdWords! We want to wish you every success with your new online campaign and let you know there is help at hand if you need it. To get you started we've designed a short email series, The AdWords Welcome Pack, to give you a solid foundation to achieve success with your new online campaign. This email covers the top 4 things you should know once your ads are set up and activated: how you can see your ad, pay for your AdWords advertising, control your costs and organize your account. You'll receive your next 5 emails on a weekly basis, so keep an eye out for them! 1. Where is my ad? Check if your ad is up and running using the Ad Preview tool. Type a keyword from your account into the Ad Preview tool, and it will show you exactly which ads are appearing for your keywords in any given location, including your own ad. We suggest you view your ad with the Ad Preview tool instead of searching on Google. When you search for your ad multiple times on Google, it can affect your ad performance by showing your ad too many times without being clicked on. If you can't see your ad, use the Ads Diagnostic Tool to help identify the reason it's not showing. Remedying the problem can be simple. Bear in mind that your ad will only show once you have entered your billing details. If you haven't done this yet, log in to your account now to select one of the payment methods below and activate your account. 2. How can I pay for my AdWords advertising? Available payment options depend on the country of your billing address and the currency with which you make payments. You'll see the options available to you on our Payment Options page. To enter your billing information, select the Billing tab in your account and click the Billing Preferences link. Once you've chosen a billing method, learn more about your payment options and how you can print invoices in our online AdWords Beginner's Guide. 3. What will my AdWords advertising cost? With AdWords, you are in control! You control the amount you pay with your daily budget and maximum cost-per-click bids (Max CPC). Your daily budget is the maximum you're willing to spend per day. This amount is entirely up to you and you can adjust it at any time. You are also in charge of the max CPC for each keyword within your campaign. This is the amount you're willing to pay each time someone clicks on your ad. The actual cost of each click can be lower than your max CPC bid. Learn more about how to adjust your budget and keyword CPCs. 4. How should I organize my account? With AdWords, the organization and structure of your account is important. It can have a huge effect on the performance of your campaigns. Take a look at the video below for a quick introduction to how you can structure your account for success. Watch the video here! We recommend you structure your account in a similar way to your website. So, if you offer multiple products or services, you should create a new campaign for each product/service. Each campaign will contain ad groups that should be based on different themes. Within each ad group are your ads and keywords. Your ads are what your customers will use to decide whether or not they will visit your website, and your keywords are the words your potential customer will use when searching for your ad. Take a look at an example account structure to see how you might structure your own account! If you would like more information about these topics, please visit our online AdWords Beginner's Guide. We hope you found this first email in the AdWords Welcome Pack useful! We welcome any feedback you may have regarding this email, so please let us know what you think. Thanks and happy reading, Laura The Google AdWords Team P.S. Next week we'll cover everything you need to know about how to choose successful keywords! Need a little help? AdWords Beginner's Guide AdWords Blog AdWords Webinars (Online tutorials) AdWords Help Forum © 2010 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 ...............
This is very common on the content network. Google do 2 things that I think they don't get enough criticism for 1. Bundle content and search in together as a default setting 2. Set broad match as the default setting. (and they get criticised for a lot of things that are the account holders fault for diving in and throwing their money at adwords without learning how it works first) Don't ever have content and search in the same campaign. Have 2 campaigns (and for the vast majority of users, start with search, only use content when you've investigated it a bit, and either choose your own placements straight off, or monitor the reports of where your ads are showing and be prepared to do a lot of blocking)
I also had the issues, my logs are different than my cpa networks and my own websites. As example, 1 landing page shows 100 clicks in my cpa network and 250 in google! Another 1, Google shows 13 clicks to my web site and 89 clicks from google. THIS WAS HAPPENING ALL TIME. I was told by a hacker that they are placing a script in peoples databases so that after a click its refreshed then sent to there site and only allowing 1 in x amount to go through to you.
Really, cos I was told exactly the opposite by a man down the pub. He knew a lot about the Kennedy assassination too.
My name is joe the owner of ExpandEnhancement.com We are currently advertising with google adwords and I have to say that google is making us the big bucks Thanks google But I think it's good for everyone to have questions and opinions.. I would also like to say that if google was a scam I bet they wouldnt let this forum show as number one for (adwords scam..) Even with great SEO.. I say Google is the best period
Its not a scam for sure because I also have made some good income by integrating adwords with clickbank...
> I knew I should signed up for it but let me know that you accruing money because if I knew I would of cancelled it a long time ago. So, you sign up for a service, one which it is clear you will be charged based on people clicking your ads. You don't monitor your campaign, presumably for some time. Then you're surprised and complain to see a bill. I'm assuming the threshold you speak of is your budget. Obviously you failed to understand. Your campaigns don't stop when you reach the budget. It's the maximum amount you want to spend in a period of time, say in one month. Unless you change your budget, the system will spend that amount for the following month. The system is self-serve. It will stop when you ask it to.
I can understand the feeling. I've been asking myself the exact same question. But thanks to Adwords (and only Adwords), I finally make some real money on the Internet. So, I will keep using Adwords even if the log files kinda weird...
Let's be honest being the biggest does not make you honest. We all know just how 'economical' the google keyword tool can be with the truth. I have seen many campaigns with a customer at #! for a term with (according to google) 5,700 exact local searches per month but the site got 11 click throughs, not conversions in a month?!? Explain that one.
you just report this to the adwords support team. You will get the actual reason . Google never cheats and there is absolutely no reason for them to cheat. Imagine a multidollar company involving in such act ? its highly not possible.
Of course Google isn't scamming you. Companies can't get away with scamming customers. Just look at Goldman Sachs ... oh wait. I understand that a lot of you are Google cheerleaders but saying that Google isn't at fault for anything is naive to say the least. I have talked to countless people who have been banned from AdWords and AdSense for no reason what so ever. Google could be doing the same thing that millions of companies get away with each year, leeching several cents from every customer to increase profits by millions of dollars a year. Cheer boys, cheer.
Google IS a scam. I can't believe so many of you blindly defend their actions, reminds me of the German people who blindly followed a certain someone during WW2... I run campaigns for a small company, and we use Adwords a lot. So far, we have encountered these mysterious issues: -Payment failing, yet the money disappearing into limbo, from our account anyway. Only 5 phone calls later the money magically came back...Yes Google were keeping it somewhere..probably building interest on all these 'lost payments' -Aggressive push into Automatic Payments..no matter how many times we credited the account, Automatic Payments still refuses us to set to Manual...and they always somehow go over the budgets we state massively -View and click fraud...Yes FRAUD...or if they are unaware, INCOMPETENCE..one or the other..We got charged 10,000 views to a viral video at £200 (budget was £10 a day)...Amazingly, these 10,000 views did not show one user comment below...hmmmm...10,000 people watched this funny viral video and not one commented? not possible.. -Asking you to add credit even if an account is cancelled (no not to reactivate, just asking for money on a dead account, money you probably will never see again) -Banning competitor words like 'Firefox' in our campaigns...Anti-Trust much? Anyway, there are a few more, but we find Google a very suspicious and untrustworthy business so far...The excuse 'but they are so big, how is it possible' is ridiculous and if that is your logic to everything then you are basically a Holocaust enabler.
Have to be honest and say that I think I am personally funding Google's business development with the amount of money I have wasted on Adwords - I'm think I'm just going to flush the money straight down the toilet and not waste my time setting up the adwords campaigns!!
I pay $3.94 for one of my keywords with AdWords, and with my CPA offer. When it does convert which is 6/10 I earn $149.06 profit
That's a great return Vick, well done. For me, key to adwords is don't try it if you can't afford to loose really know your keywords and the niche/ market you are aiming for practice with a small budget and a small selection until you really understand Adwords review, review, review! This hs worked for me!