Are they kicking prices up big time and adsense is not converting much back? Or is this just happening to me ?
thousands of my keywords are asking me for $10!!! Today till now my traffic down 50%, and my earning down 50%
They just re-adjusted their quality algo a bit. This means they are telling you they don't like your landing page much and you need to improve it.
No, the prices are the same. Keywords costing $5 / $10 means landing page Quality problem as aeiouy said.
I got hit with the same thing. Unfortunately, If i change the keywords on my site to go with my adwords then the ads I want to display won't be there. Looks like im screwed and its a shame because adwords to YPN arbitrage was making close to 100 / day
So I guess some people would consider this a victory for Google. They don't really want people pushing people on off-topic content, which sounds exactly like what you are doing. You know you can do on-topic arbitrage.
Dude, can you share some experience on improving the landing page QS? I have no idea what to do at all. Basically my page is a article, with no external links, no internal links, no buy button, no privacy report. Are they really matter?
Add an 'About Us' and 'Privacy Policy' pages to the site, they don't have to be long in content, link to them with those exact words as the anchor text, put the links on the bottom of the article page. Put links in those two pages back to your article page, again links at the bottom. Then see how things change for you. H
Same problem here. Lot of keywords (with good ctr 4-5%, landing page in theme, same key in the title) in various different campaigns, 2 days ago raised up from 0.03 to 0.40 and more and were disactivated. Maybe it's really an algo change and if is that we have to find the way to go back in advertising at a reasonable price. I write them to ask about this problem, because that campaigns run without problems for 3-4 months with good roi and good satisfaction. The ROI doesn't fit for me at 0.30-0.40 so had to stop all campaigns. Posting your experience always help all.
Google want to keep potential advertiser so you have to do like this. 1. Put Keyword in Heading ads & body 2. Landing pages have to have keyword like your ads If you want to know how to be a potential advertiser should to read this article "Top 12 Tips To Writing Effective Google AdWords Select Ads By Michael Wong."
i'm starting to read this official news about new algo on landing page quality... http://adwords.blogspot.com/2006/11/landing-page-quality-update.html Will write more considerations after reading all...
I'm sorry anielsen but this is not really the "curse of auction" that you mentioned. Until yesterday in Adwords was like that, but this is a more complex thing. Imo GG is just trying to take out of his adv market very poor site with poor content or MFA (in this case "Made for Advertising") websites. I start to be little tired to go behind all the decision the Google takes that reflects in my business. I'm very tired of this monopoly!!!
Sadly, this is an old tip and is not enough to keep quality anymore for your campaigns - nowadays you need to follow a set of web design rules to have enough quality Score to advertise in AdWords as for example substantial content, privacy policy, navigation rules, user respect, etc..
Maybe you have reason, Micromag, but in this case where is finished the "simply way to advertise your products" that was the best thing in AdWords??? I'm a webmaster and i can update my sites to fit what GG needs (even if i hate this!!), but what happens to a normal advertiser that run his website and from a day to another have to spend 10 times more? There is something wrong in this. I think so.