So... I was using Adwords to get a few visitors to a blog, i didn't want to spend much money at a blog so i decided to set up the CPC at 5 cents... All went good until a few days ago, when i noticed a traffic reducion and less revenue. I went to my adwords account ( i only go there once a week or so ) and noticed that i had 99% of my targeted keywords not showing up The minimum pricing raised from the 5 cents i was paying, to 5 bucks and some even 10$$. How the hell is this possible??!! Am i being smart priced or something like that?
Apparently Google will do this to you if they think your choice of keywords are irrelevant for your site or if they consider your site dodgy. If you look at other articles in this forum, you'll see that others have the same problem.
This is because the keywords that you were using would not be relevant to your site. If you use the keywords relevant to your site and such thing happens, then report it to Google, you have legitmate reason to argue!
I was recently punished for having irrelevant content on a site because the most relevant content was unreadable by the google spider. The content was a map, stored in GIF format. I just protested, it'll be interesting to see if they'll fix their mistake.
The keywords are relevant to the blog, but i guess they don't think that... Thanks for the help guys, don't know how i'm going to go around this situation cause no way i'm going to pay 5 or 10$ for one click
Right nuiscance when this happens but all you can do is try and amend your way of approaching it, because Google certainly aren't going to work around us little people lol Tell us how it's going anyway soon, what you did to change it and if you saw improvements. Thanks.
GuyFromChicago ... stop beating around the bush, and just tell us the point you're trying to make ... H <giggle> p.s maybe people don't understand the difference between relevance and quality ...
hehe, I can be a man of few words Give the user (searcher) exactly what they were looking for and you have provided a great user experience. IMO the quality score has A LOT to do with just that, the user experience. I may tend to over simplify things sometimes but in relation to the quality score I think people just make it out to be more complicated than it is.
I Agree completely. Sometimes taking things back to basics is the way to go. I always recommend to clients to think about the customer and write the ad from their perspective. Keep it simple, stop all the complications. The rest just works out by itself, eh? H
Same thing happened to me! 5$ and 10$ clicks! all of them I was surfing nicely on .04 and .05 clicks for a while! i guess this is why they say not to bank your income and adsense and adwords