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100 Dollar Keyword!

They exist...

         

humblebeginnings

6:40 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Howdy folks,

I have knowledge of a keyword that some firm is prepared to pay USD 100,- per click. Always thought 100 dollar keywords were a myth, but apparently they exist.
Of course this firm might change their mind and bid 'only' a dollar or so tomorrow. And other firms might pay only a few cents for this keyword. So its not really useful info I guess.

But anyways, have you people ever had knowledge of a 100 dollar keyword (no specifics please, I am not asking for high paying keywords) or is this something unusual? Of course I couldn't resist this so I have spend the past few days making a page with content regarding this keyword. No results up to now...

ken_b

7:15 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Sure high dollar keywords exist.

That doesn't mean they will pay that to a publisher.

I know a keyword that showed a $50.00 high bid the big "O".

The next highest bid was $2.46.

On top of that, advertizers who will spend big bucks for clicks from a G search page might only be willing to spend pennies for a click from a content page.

humblebeginnings

8:19 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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In this case the second bid was about 10 dollar, not bad either. It still amazes me that firms are prepared to pay so much money just for someone to push a button. I might not receive 100 bucks per click but they do have to pay it.

MediaSpree

8:22 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The highest I've seen was a reccomended CPC of $39.00 in adwords for a particular keyword. The highest payout i've ever gotten from a single click in the same genre (no way to know if google was targeting that particular keyword) was $3.82. But don't get excited, my avaerage CPC is $0.10 :(

jomaxx

8:29 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I doubt very much any advertiser is paying close to $100 a click, even on Google.com never mind the content network.

mike schmitz

8:39 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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In addition to this just being an idiotic thread, don't forget that in Overture, you only pay a penny more than the next highest bid. Therefore, some firms bid $50 to avoid getting into a bidding war. Obviously, they are hoping that no one bids $49.99 or even close to this amount.

FromRocky

8:49 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I have a low traffic channel which normally produces one or two clicks a day with an average monthly earning of $33. One day I got one click which was paid a little higher than this monthly earning for the channel. These stats are still in the account, no correction yet from Google even though one month has passed. If this is true, the actual pay of $50 or more can only be taken place in a bidding war where the second highest ad forced the first position ad to pay the max.

humblebeginnings

9:13 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Mike,

Why is this an "idiotic thread"?
I just asked a question, I am curious about something.
I didn't use faul language, I didn't ask for fast money, I didn't violate the TOS.
Did I insult you somehow with my question?
If that is the case I apologize...

mike schmitz

9:48 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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It's just that everyone seems to be enthralled with chasing the magical keyword that is $50+.

jomaxx

9:49 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I think Mike was mostly reacting to the gee-whiz title you gave the thread:
100 Dollar Keyword! They exist...

They DON'T exist, and every newbie who gets into the program has the same idea: find expensive keywords and build pages around them. This get-rich-quick behaviour has discredited AdSense and caused a lot of advertisers to drop it, which costs the rest of us a lot of money.

The fact is that every one of us would be better off if webmasters would simply build their sites naturally instead of becoming obsessed by the delusion of "easy money".

sonny

9:58 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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"conference call services" is in the 70$'s.
Hard to believe!

jomaxx

10:28 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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<sigh>

3kaday

10:32 pm on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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logged in today and had one single click at over $21. haven't had that for a while, hope things are picking up again

warthog

1:55 am on Sep 7, 2005 (gmt 0)



"sue a drug company" is currently at $200!

im gonna make a big site all about suing drug companies it will be awesome

kensav

6:38 am on Sep 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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2 questions:

Is there a way to find not the top paying keywords but some decent one's?

Also I usually make $2/day with only 200 page impressions. Is there a way to find out what keywords got clicked when I had the same page impressions but made $8 that day with roughly the same clicks.

humblebeginnings

4:18 pm on Sep 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Jomaxx,

Thanks for explaining, but you might have jumped to conclusions to fast.

'every newbie who gets into the program has the same idea: find expensive keywords and build pages around them.'

I guess I am a 'newbie' and I certainly don't think my ideas about the Adsense program fit your description. My website was established 7 years ago and I never put ads on it until a few months ago. It took me thousands of hours to build it and thousands of dollars to host it. Since this is getting too much of an expensive hobby I joined Adsense to pay the hosting bills. My main source of income comes from going to the office and being pushed around by the boss. Since my Adsense earnings are relatively low I just wondered if my topic is related only to keywords that are potentially low paying. So I used the Overture bid tool and discovered that some of the keywords related to my topic actually have some very high bids. And that made me curious. As you can conclude from my original post I know that knowledge of 'high paying' keywords might be meaningful in some situations but it is useless most of the time. The knowledge I received made me spend several days to make 1 single page full of content that is better focused on some keywords with high bids. The content itself is totally in tune with the rest of my topic.
As I understand Google advises publishers to experiment with content to see what it does to earnings, as long as you don't make non-content especially made for Adsense pages.

I didn't invent 'high paying' keywords, Google did by introducing a bidding system. It is part of the Adsense program and it is completely on topic in this forum. If people start a thread about this subject, it doesn't mean they are obsessed with it.
I know the issue has been discussed a thousand times, but hey, all of us were 'newbies' one day...

Jenstar

4:20 pm on Sep 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Don't forget that CPM ads could be factoring in that "single click" worth $21. So unless there was only one impression and one click, it is a lot harder now to determine how much a "click" is really worth.

mike schmitz

4:51 pm on Sep 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I bet that "Highest Paying Keywords" is the highest CPC phrase.

jacov888

4:59 pm on Sep 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Google adsense is so dynamic that you can never tell how much advertisers ar paying. Sometimes the highest paying ads are not even showing because the are not producing the required CTR. Perhaps it does help to have a topic of interest that poeple are willing to pay for, but in the end it is your website content that is first supposed to be relevant not the ads

FromRocky

5:07 pm on Sep 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Don't forget that CPM ads could be factoring in that "single click" worth $21.

That is very true in my experience with CPM. I went for a set of keywords using CPM through AdWords. These keywords normally cost me about $0.20 a click through the search with CTR of 5%. I set a daily budget of $50 and CPM of $5 as a test. I estimated this would cost me $0.1 per click. I was wrong. In five hours, I got about 9,804 impressions and 2 clicks or $24.51 a click. This was the end of my CPM experiment.