I tried to create an ad for "clergy shirt" for this page (example.com) and Google's help desk person said the landing page isn't "quality" and to read the landing page quality guidelines.
After going through the whole doc I can't find anything that we aren't doing correctly according to Google's docs.
If you look at the other sites' landing pages that are advertising for the same phrase, you will see that ours is about the best of the lot if not the best. Some of the pages don't even mention clergy shirts! I don't believe for a minute that these people are paying $10 a click on a $40 item.
I also had heard that Google's "bot" will only look at a page you submit for an ad once a month even if you change the page or the ad. To verify this, I submitted an ad for a completely different keyword and landing page on a different topic and still was told that I had to bid $10 a click.
We tried about two dozen different ads and keywords on different landing pages with the same result every time.
Any suggestions? Is Google penalizing new advertisers and letting old ones skate on crappy landing pages?
[edited by: eWhisper at 12:59 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2007]
[edit reason] Please see the link policy in the TOS. [/edit]
Even at $10 you will quickly establish a CTR and the cost will go down.
p/g
It sounds like you have a bad domain problem and there is no cure except to use another one, or make major structural changes and wait for the bot to return..
Some webmasters say that you can call and have them manually remove the penalty on your domain, but I recently called them about it and they told me that is a wembaster myth..
Also, Adbot visits much more than once per month.. It hits my sites several thousand times per day..
I would research quality score and then use another domain with your revised site..
