Well, if you type that word into Google, and look through the sponsored results (including clicking the "more sponsored results" link) and your competitor is listed then you know they are bidding on that keyword. You may have to try the search at several times of the day, and repeat it a few times as they may not get shown every time.
Oh yes it is! Build your own keyword list - I would argue that the majority of advertisers on Adwords have no idea what they're doing, and that copying them would be unwise. I know it's a pain in the asp, but it's worth generating your own keyword list, based on what products/services you are offering. It's possible that you may miss a few possibilities, but you should certainly get the main drivers of traffic and conversions. And DEFINITELY don't worry about what they are bidding...
No one is telling about just copy and paste the keywords there. I'm telling about take a look about new niches in terms of keywords for your campaign. Its a fact: If your competitor is bidding in determined positive ROI keywords and you are not: you are loosing money (or in other words: you are loosing the chance of win more money) Operationally, The procedure of adding new keywords to your campaign is very easy: Just go to spyfu.com, import your competitor keywords list and paste it into a new temp adgroup using AdWords Editor -- so you remove the duplicated keywords and you will have in this adgroup the keywords that your competitor is bidding and you are not, decide the keywords that you will use and discard the keywords that you think don't worth. If you do this procedure, I'm sure that you will find some new interesting keywords for your campaign.
That's not a fact at all. If you included this: "AND you learn how he is converting his clicks... right from the first moment to last... from front end to back end... then you might have a slight chance of copying his success" I'm not a fan of these spy tools for one simple reason: You are not learning how to market. Step back, learn how the game works, learn how to find the best keywords yourself. Then when the day comes, as it very likely will, when Google finds a way to stop the spy tools doing what they do (probably big G's number one priority as we speak) you will not be left out in the dry. Cheers Stewart
Learnig about the market requires doing lots of research, such figuring out what keywords a competitor is bidding for on Google adwords & not necessarily to copy.
First you go and check your competitors ranking.It make no sense to spy someone who have Alexa 5mil ranking and is loosing money with PPC.Than you copy his keywords with whatever tool and just track your keywords and delete the non performing.Now you have quality campaign.(You need quality landing page too)
You can compile a huge keyword list using Adwords Keyword tool and then use AdSpyPro to check out which are the keywords and what are the bids for the keywords.
homebizbuilder sounds like you have the perfect tool to work with ADWORDS I would try this if I were KA1
Aaron111 If you have nothing to contribute to the thread, please try another section like the general chat.