Adwords changes. what happens if I increase my bids?

[beavis]

Many of my .05 and .10 keywords were bumped to .40 to .50 and some 10.00 and more during the recent change.

Has anyone in similar circumstances increased their bids to the new minimum? If so, what happened? Did the keywords stay online or just jump in price again?

[sailorjwd]

I let a lot of min run at the new min bids (not $10 though).

A lot of them produced clicks at a discount below the min bid. Those that didn't give me a discount I reduced the bid so they wouldn't show.

Each day some of the new high min bids get lowered for a couple of the keywords - don't know why, perhaps their CTR is good.

In the end I'm trying to keep as many ads running as possible at the lowest possible cost while I fix my site per their recommeendations.

[beavis]

Thanks. I was worried G would just jack the price up more.

[Green_Grass]

I Concur with sailorjwd.