I was told Adcenter was the best place to test things and learn PPC, but...

Discussion in 'Bing Ads' started by Jondoe0069, Jan 17, 2007.

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    What is up with Adcenter? Everyone says it's the best place to test, etc. I have done PPC before on Google and Yahoo, but things have changed quite a bit in the last 2 years.

    Yahoo reporting is annoying, but everything else is straight forward and it seems to be effective and easy to use. Google is a pain in the ass. And Adcenter is an unexpected pain in the ass.

    I have 30-50,000 keywords uploaded to adcenter. I am bidding on broad, phrase, and exact for every keyword. My bids are in the 40-50 cent range, but I don't get a lot of impressions. I'm bidding on ringtone keywords... so for the general terms, I know there is a lot of search volume.

    The other thing that is a pain in the ass is when I tested $2.00 max bids to see what would happen, I got impressions and clicks, but only $2.00 clicks. It seems that no matter what, every click I get is for max bid. Whether it's on a general term or some random longtail misspelled exact match bid.

    I use dynamic text keyword insertion in my ads along with a default generic ad for back up. So maybe it's a relevancy issue? Yahoo gives all my dynamic text ads a high quality score for the same words.

    What is a good strategy to take the best advantage of Adcenter? I know I'm probably way off the path moving in the wrong direction. Luckily I'm still pulling more profit than I expected because of Yahoo's performance!
     
    Jondoe0069, Jan 17, 2007 IP
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    Nevermind, I got this answered!
     
    Jondoe0069, Jan 18, 2007 IP
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    So what was the answer?
     
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    Nevermind. I thought I got it answered. It thought it had to do with me not having my own landing page. Now I do and I still get barely any impressions. Hmm. Weird. Yahoo seems to be the easiest for noobs.
     
    Jondoe0069, Jan 25, 2007 IP
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    are u saying that it has something to do with landing pages ? does it effect a a lot ?
     
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    I thought so. I was told it was a big thing, but I have a good landing page that is very relevant and has a lot of copy on it (all original) and it has internal and external links and still NOTHING! I can't get any love with MSN unless I kick my bids up to the dollar range.
     
    Jondoe0069, Jan 31, 2007 IP
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    lol exact same problem here.

    I just registred using there 100$ coupon.

    It seems like hell hard to spend it now!!!

    I put 3 time more than what i put in google for same keayword but still very low impression and low clickrate.


    kinda sucks..
     
    Mr_2, Jan 31, 2007 IP