I'm thinking these get rich quick ebooks are getting to people's heads. I search on google "make money online" (I like looking at the ads on the term alot). Then I find this ad in the #1 position. Legit online jobs no play allshaun.legitonl.hop.clickbank.net Real Work at Home Jobs and make $5000 a month! (Just move everything in the adwords top placement format) Yes He put his hoplink in the display url. Yes he completey messed up capitalization in the headline.(Its a direct copy paste). There is no landing/presell page, just a direct link. That keyword costs a fortune per click, I hope that person is ready to wake up to an adwords bill of over $500 per day with maybe $100 a day commision or less... Any idea why else this cycle continues (someone goes broke over a crap ad like the one above and a new crap ad takes the place.)
With very popular terms, things like "make money online", "adwords", "adsense", ect. 90% of the ads are people 'testing', and the ad will be gone within a week as they realise it is costing them way to much money vs rewards. You can do an experiment yourself and track what ads stay there are which ones go away. For very competitive words that cost way too much per click, you'll find most of them disappear within the week, but are replaced by yet another set of ads by newbies trying to make some money. The cycle continues because adwords has become so popular, new people sign up every day and think for some reason that a term like "make money online" will be cost effective.
The ad is still around as I am typing now. Same affiliate id. I hope the guy is making money as "make money online" is a quite general keyword and must be quite expensive as well.
If you can get a high CTR you won't be paying much in adwords. Capatilization doesn't always mean better ctr, though generally it does.
I think he's making money, or at least not loosing, why should he put his ads on again if it did not make him money ?
I've got my doubts. I think most people actually lose a lot of money trying this crap out. The problem is that they are so convinced that they will eventually make money that they are willing to lose money until that happens (never). Even if a product has a payout of over $30 you would need a significant conversion ratio to justify the cost of those "general" keywords... and if someone should happen to return a purchase or do a charge back (which they do) then you're in the red.
This guy is probably a beginner and thinks he has figured it out. Sometimes having the #1 position isn't even necessary if you write a good enough ad. Personally I would never bid on a term as broad as making money or making money online. I prefer specific terms that I can get a high conversion rate from. Benjamin
If you have a #1 position you can assume that more people click. But, lots of people click the back button on their browser and check out position #2 and #3... If any of them are promoting the same product, THEIR cookie resets your cookie and you just LOST a commission. Being #1 isn't always the best place to be.
The product pays around $26 per sale. At $3.00 per click (Thats what it costs for a keyword of that much competition), he would need like a 1 in 9 conversion rate. I highly doubt that he is making any money.
Heh, he isn't actually 'removing' the AD IMO. He must've just exhausted his daily spending limit. Most newbies who search such a term, don't actually know what those hoplinks are, some do click > and convert. But that AD really looks outright dumb, but hey, who cares!