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automated adword monitoring

get email notices when ad slips down iin position.

         

qfguy

3:38 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Anyone know of an automated service which checks position of your ad and sends you an email when the position of your ads changes?

We have 15 ads and hundreds of words and would like to know when some of them are not in the #1 slot.

skibum

7:26 pm on Feb 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I haven't heard of such an application but if it checked frequently seems like it might flood the mailbox receiving the notices rather quickly. AdWords listings seem to jump around within a certain range very frequently especially if there are lots of ads running on a given keyword.

AdWordsAdvisor

9:34 pm on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



...if it checked frequently seems like it might flood the mailbox receiving the notices rather quickly. AdWords listings seem to jump around within a certain range very frequently especially if there are lots of ads running on a given keyword.

Quite true. Depending on a variety of factors, an ad's position can easily change from one search to the next. And for a keywords that may get thousands of impressions per day, that is a lot of emails!

It might be a worthwhile option, however, to have a system that notifies you if you are outside a certain range that you could select.

In any case, I'll pass your feedback on, gfguy, as a brainstorming idea. Who knows what other ideas may evolve?

AWA

your_store

10:12 pm on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I wouldn't want a script checking the ads every five minutes. The impressions would kill a lot of my lower traffic term's CTR.

Shak

10:16 pm on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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gotoast was similar when i used to monitor the overture program with it.

be nice if 1 could set parameters on what/why/when you wanted a notification email.

personally , as long as there is ROI (and there always is), I dont give a care, 1 less email to read :)

Shak

qfguy

6:25 pm on Feb 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

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We have a head-to-head competitor and occasionally get into bidding wars for our top 2 or 3 words. What I would like is to get an email when Some x-percentage of the time we are no longer showing above their ad.

For example an email is generated whenever 30% of the time we are number 2.

I should be able to set the percentage so as to reduce the number of notifications.