If you get a $10 minimum bid from the start, the problem is almost certainly your landing page. You are either breaking Google's T's & C's, or not following their guidelines... http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guidelines.cs&hl=en http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46675
1. Fix the landing page according to their rules (see CustardMite's post) 2. Group the kw 3. Fix the ads 4. Good luck
Go through the landing page quality score information as posted and apply it to your page. Quite often its just the title and metas that need tweaking - unless they find something that breaks the rules.
thanks. The domain is an old domain and has been used for adwords before with poor results. should i start a fresh with a new domain???
Wouldn't hurt unless you're also getting organic SEO traffic to the page. However, if your only source of traffic is PPC, changing domains shouldn't hurt.
yes it will definitely help solve this. and i guess thats why ur minimum CPC was too high. either register a completely new domain OR move ur landing pages to another domain u own already but never used before for adwords and preferably same niche. Good Luck!
What makes you think it's the domain that's a problem? People often get $5 and $10 minimum bids on Google for having websites that break Google's rules, or look to much like arbitrage websites (websites that bid on cheap words, and have expensive Adsense links all over them to make money). In fact, every time Google updates the Quality Score algorithm, the DP forum is awash with howls of anguish from the affiliate marketers, who suddenly find they've got high minimum bids... There are plenty of other ways that you can get this kind of minimum bid - throwing away your domain won't fix them, though...
We had site that got slapped that was linking out to a ton of educational resources and etc from the recent Google slap. How do we over come that just bid high and collect more data until it goes back down?
Add that keywords in title, meta tags. 100 word privacy page. less outbound links. remove adsense from that page. 500 words landing page. also check adwords help.
Custard Mike, You think if I added more content and a navigation bar such as about us, contact us, home, education articles, and etc They'll take the slap off there? I went ahead and did that, but I haven't seen no changes yet, but then again it only been 24 hours since I did it.
Somethings up with your landing page. try to create the campaign again and it should work. Sometimes the spider from google gets a bit buggy. Good luck. -Patz
The key to getting great CPC and position is to have extremely relevant ads to landing pages. Make the ads be extremely relevant to the landing pages and you'll get high QS, low CPC, and good results. just my thought
First make sure you ctr is above 10%. Second make sure your landing site has 100 plus pages. You will never be slapped again if you follow those two rules.