Adwords Competition--Please help newbie

copy cat competitor

[affnewbie]

Hi,

Am hoping someone more experienced can help me out. I finally found a product/service that resulted in decent click throughs and decent conversions. Then, someone all of a sudden copied pretty much my exact sam ad phrases and must have out bid me--because i couldn't find my ad for many hours.

Any thoughs on how best to approach this dilemma? Any thoughts would help.

Thanks,

affnewbie

[dregs33]

Hi

Outbid them.:)

Welcome to aff marketing

dregss33

[FromRocky]

One of the critical information you didn't give is whether both competitor's URL and yours are directly linked to merchant site?

[inasisi]

affnewbie,

You should be able to complain to Google about the competitor using the same ad copy as you and my guess is that Google should be easily able to find out who had written up the ad copy first and then not allow your competitor to use it.

Have others been in this situation before? What has Google's response to this been?

However there is nothing much you can do if your competitor decides to change the ad copy but still outbid you.

[affnewbie]

Thanks for your suggestions.

Yes, both are linked to the merchant's site.

Does anyone really think Google would do something about it--i mean it is pretty much similar ad copy but not 100% copied. Anyone can see though that the main stuff is copied.

[toddb]

I do not think Google will enforce your copyrighton your ad. You need to raise your bid.