Raising Keyword Limit

Only have 50,000

[coreydavid]

Anyone have any experience getting Google to raise your keyword limit? I'm stopped at 50,000 but I'd like to target long tail terms so I need more.

I don't have a history with Google, making it tough. I sent an email yesterday but haven't heard back.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance

[Terabytes]

I'm just curious, just how in the world does anyone keep serious tabs on 50,000 keywords?

I mean, is it really possible to seriously keep that many terms covered without just throwing a bunch of terms in a basket?

And....does the website that this 50,000 keywords are linked to really have anything to do with all 50,000 words? or are most of the terms just an attempt to gain clicks on non-related terms in the hopes of driving traffic that "might" convert?

just wondering...

Thanks in advance!
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[coreydavid]

Not too hard to keep tabs if divided into relvant ad groups. A few keywords are responsible for most of the revenue. The others don't convert often, but each day, a few do,,,and those few change all the time

What is your experience?

[netmeg]

I never tried to raise the keyword limit, but they did raise the number of campaigns when I asked nicely.

[inbound]

Google will raise your keyword limits if you have shown that you can use your current allocation wisely. I think the limit is 1 Million ;)

[Pengi]

I had a similar problem coreydavid

I was hitting a limit with some 40,000 keywords - these were organised into 25 campaigns: 5 for each of 5 countries. Each campaign was covering anything up to 80 distinct AdGroups - each related to a separate page. It wasn't difficult to reach 40,000 keywords!

I asked AdWords support on several occasions if my keyword allowance could be increased becuse I was getting messages about reaching the limit. On each occasion I was politely refused and shown some area where I could eliminate overlapping or superfluous keywords.

It was only by repeatedly asking AND demonstrating my good intentions by editing out lots of inappropraite keywords myself that I managed to convince G to increase my limit.

My Advice - every time you near the limit, do what you can to remove keywords and explain to google what you are doing and ask what they can do to help. Keep working and keep asking.

[coreydavid]

Thats a good idea.

Did you email them or call? Did you have a google rep assigned to you?

Thanks!

[inbound]

My understanding is that any rep has the ability to change an allocation (or set it in motion) - so you don't need to have a dedicated rep. Your spend levels should also justify an increase, our monthly spend was only around $10K when we had our limit changed, although that was some time ago and you may need more/less now.

Well structured campaigns and ad-groups are a definite plus, make sure you are making the most of what you have before asking for more (If you don't eat your dinner you can't have any pudding).

[Pengi]

I didn't have a rep then (I have now). I e-mailed each time - explaining what I'd done, how long I spend doing it (and how the repetitive strain was giving me a pain in the neck!), and how it would be limiting my plans to expand my campaings. It took me three rounds of pruning the keywords myself (I probably reduced by about 10% at each round).

[sailorjwd]

'a friend of mine' asked and quickly had his limit raised to 200,000 and still is at that level (i think). Although the friend said he spent 15-20K per month until the long tail words were blocked by LPQ.

ps.. when he hit that limit they opened a second account for him. I guess he had 350000 words at one time - easily managed - 5000 per adgroup

pps.. then after giving them close to $1million they shut him down to $10 per day

[bcc1234]

I mean, is it really possible to seriously keep that many terms covered without just throwing a bunch of terms in a basket?

Not just thousands, you could even do millions. You go after tangential markets of your niche, not just the niche itself.