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The point is "fideladeloopiedoo" is a complete meaningless nonsensical word. It can not have any relation to ad-copy of any campaign, for none of us.

Why on earth should "fideladeloopiedoo" have a different quality score for 2 brand new adgroups in the same campaign, with exactly the same ad-copy except for that group #1 deals with widgets in Orlando, and group #2 with widgets in Miami.
This nonsense keyword is in both cases not related to the ad-copy whatsoever.

No difference for matching - asked to pay 0.10 in the adgroup with long term CTR about 0.3%.

Asked to pay 0.02 in the adgroup with long term CTR about 8%.

Both adgroups in the same account - this month average CTR about 1.9%

For the sheer hell of it, thought I'd give it a go - also (in UK, but bidding globally) seeing £0.03...

But as it appears to be, also regardless of their relation to the ad-copy.

"fideladeloopiedoo" can not possibly have any relevant relation to any ad-copy. Yet we all get different minimum bids.

I just did a search at google for "fideladeloopiedoo" and got a "no matching documents" SERP.

You'll all be happy to know there were no adwords displayed. So I guess it's just whatever light a term like this might shine on their pricing algo(s).

Take care,

Louis

I don’t know whether my account will be a good measure of results because I haven’t fully activated it by entering billing information into it yet, but I am able to create ad groups and get prices on keywords.

In my own campaign I only have 1 keyword at this time. I’m advertising in another language so I’ll have to translate all of my keywords. I just entered one to get the account going. I have a daily budget of $5.00 and my keyword was given a price of $0.10 by Google.

To participate in the fideladeloopiedoo experiment I created a new campaign. I made up an ad that HAS ABSOLUTELY no relevance to the nonsensical keyword.

Test Ad
This ad has NO relevance to the key
It should get the same price
www.test1.com

I entered a daily budget of $5.00. At first I tried $0.01, and I thought I had it for that price. Then I used the traffic estimator to determine whether the ad would be active or not. I got the fideladeloopiedoo keyword to go active for $0.03.

As a little further test I tried creating another ad.

Another Ad Test
There is almost nothing the same
between the two ads
www.test2.com

I couldn’t do anything about the daily budget for this ad. Since they are in the same campaign I guess they are feeding from the same daily budget.

I HAD to bid $0.05 on the second ad to make it active.

WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE? The keyword CAN’T have any relevance to the ad.

In the ad I had created before I had done the test I had used one keyword for the ad. That keyword WAS IN the top line of the ad. In fact it was the ONLY thing on the top line of the ad. I got a minimum bid of $0.10. That’s TWICE what I got for a NONSENSICAL keyword that WASN’T EVEN part of the ad and 3 TIMES what I paid for the least expensive ad THAT WAS TOTAL NONSENSE.

Didn’t I see it somewhere that advertisers are REWARDED for having good keywords that are relevant to the ad? So far the results of this experiment make it look like IT’S JUST THE OPPOSITE.

I tried another experiment, but I got stopped by Google’s spell check.

fideladeloopiedoo
Best fideladeloopiedoo around
Get your fideladeloopiedoo now
www.webmasterworld.com

I wanted to use the FICTITIOUS keyword in my FICTITIOUS ad as many times as I could. I used the Webmasterworld URL because I made the landing URL the forum page for this thread that has the keyword on it. I thought that I’d improve my QUALITY SCORE if my keyword was VERY RELEVANT to the ad and the landing page.

I wonder if Google would allow and exception for a test? If I wasn’t afraid of making a bad name for myself with Google then I would try to get an exception.

By the way has anyone did a search for fideladeloopiedoo on Google lately? SOMEONE has managed to get the word into their site somehow. I guess it’s something dynamic because I searched the page for the word and it didn’t come up.

By the way humblebeginnings I actually think this thread is a good idea. Testing things to see what’s going on is the only way we’re going to know whether the system is working right or not.

So far it looks like the minimum bid has problems and it looks like the daily budget has problems too. NO ONE should have to bid 3 TIMES what they are willing to pay just to get their ad to run throughout the day. Again I’ve seen mixed results from people who have discussed it in other threads. One guy said that they CHARGED HIM $100 for 5 clicks at $20 / click and someone else said that they are bidding high and only being charged $0.04 for clicks.

Is ANYONE actually spending ALL of their daily budget in a day?

I’ve heard it said that the helpful Google algorithms are spreading our impressions throughout the day. If IT WAS WORKING the way it was supposed to then NO ONE should have to raise their daily budget into the VERY SCARY amounts I’ve seen posted just to get their ad to show throughout the day.

I had done a search and saw the same item. I believe they have included the word fideladeloopiedoo in their title. I did the google search, clicked on the link and viewed the source, then I typed in the URL and viewed the source, it was still there. I even closed the browser to end the session and typed in the URL, again it was still there. Cookies? Doesn't appear to be. Other spyware. Doesn't appear to be.

If it's dynamic, it's cool.

If it's not, why?

This experiment is geting weirder every day.
And all of you are contributing to one curious discovery after an other!

It is indeed a fact now that if one searches on Google for fideladeloopiedoo, several sites have adapted the word! Great observation Alien! This probably means that fideladeloopiedoo is 'stolen' from this thread by scraper sites. Now 3 new questions come to mind, but beware, a lot of speculation from my part here!

1) What if even more scrapers start mentioning fideladeloopiedoo? Would it be possible that Adwords will gradually consider fideladeloopiedoo an 'established' keyword, and thus give it an other quality score, and therefore another minimum bid?
Remember AWA stated that part of the Adwords algo is that every keyword has a certain quality 'in itself'.
I guess Adwords defines the quality 'in itself' not by getting a dictionary out of the closet all the time. Perhaps a keyword is just Googled, and judged on how many times and in what context it is used on the Internet, to determine the quality 'in itself'?

2) If the quality score of fideladeloopiedoo is at least partly defined by the way it appears on the Internet, would it be possible to manipulate the quality score of fideladeloopiedoo? What if one states that one can make fast cash with fideladeloopiedoo, I made a million dollar with fideladeloopiedoo or that fideladeloopiedoo is a mysterious new bidding method that will put an end to internet marketing as we know it? How will Adwords judge fideladeloopiedoo if scraper sites would adapt these sentences?

3) If the above means that one could manipulate the quality of keywords just by writing stuff about it on webpages that are indexed by Google, would it be possible to manipulate the quality score of keywords that are important to competitors? What if one would consistently create thousands of pages that would put a certain keyword in a dubious context, could one make Adwords believe this keyword is 'bad' in a way that a competitor is not able to bid on the keyword anymore?

People are putting fideladeloopiedoo in their title tags now, look at <site removed>

<site removed> gives a review of the fideladeloopiedoo experiment!

I will keep you informed about the mysterious new marketing method called fideladeloopiedoo;-])