How many clicks a day is ok?

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by love_bug, Sep 25, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi guys.. im trying google adwords for the first time for my business. my CTR is 0.11%, average clicks 16, 20 & Im bedding on keywords like web hosting, hosting etc, because that the only keywords available.
    my daily budget is $43, but i think it is too much when you are not selling anything, besides my hosting plans very are cheap.
    What do you suggest? should i look for other alternatives?
    thankns
     
    love_bug, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  2. mad4

    mad4 Peon

    Messages:
    6,986
    Likes Received:
    493
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #2
    Are you making any money from the adverts? Make sure you can track the sales from the adverts and measure the ROI.

    Web hosting is a hard market to be in. Most of the big hosts will make a loss for most of their advertising on google.
     
    mad4, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  3. love_bug

    love_bug Member

    Messages:
    46
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    41
    #3
    humm, thought trying on google will change my luck.. I will stop my Adword account today, it's doing more bad than any good. i was happy selling in ebay though.. thanks for the tip.
     
    love_bug, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  4. hufferbomb

    hufferbomb Peon

    Messages:
    5
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4


    Yes, it does depend on if you are making money or losing money overall. If you are making money from your ads, then keep it up!
     
    hufferbomb, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  5. codeber

    codeber Peon

    Messages:
    578
    Likes Received:
    11
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    Its not always the ads that are the problem between clickthroughs and signups

    Sometimes its the website or product/service they are being directed too.

    On your website, it might help if the price was shown broken down into what it costs monthly as that is usually the basis on which most people contemplating webhosting look at. It took me a couple of seconds to realise your prices were yearly. Some people may mistake them as monthly.

    Also You need to look at the market and see what you are offering is competitive (especially against your google adwords rivals)
    eg usually people expect if they are paying (whatever the price) for webhosting to have at least 1 mysql database
     
    codeber, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  6. kevingibbons

    kevingibbons Guest

    Messages:
    224
    Likes Received:
    8
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #6
    Perhaps try adding some more specific keywords as suggested by http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ and use the exact and phrase matching options. This should help to make your traffic more targeted and likely to lead to sales.
     
    kevingibbons, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  7. sarathy

    sarathy Peon

    Messages:
    1,613
    Likes Received:
    76
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #7
    Try having seperate campaigns for
    Search
    Contextual text
    and
    Contextual image
     
    sarathy, Sep 25, 2006 IP