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Does emailing google adwords help?

do i want to write to them to ask for lower price

         

sore66

8:08 pm on Jan 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

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The last thing I want to do is get on google's sh$t list or have them pay too much attention to my stuff. I figure if I'm not spending millions, they could care less about giving me a ban, etc.....

Has anyone had success in getting keyword prices lowered by corresponding with google?

jtara

8:48 pm on Jan 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Why would emailing Google cause your competitors to lower their bids?

sore66

9:35 pm on Jan 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Everyone is talking about competitors. I'm talking about keywords with no other ads running!

Are there invisible competitors on those keywords too?

Frequent

9:51 pm on Jan 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I seriously doubt it would be effective.

As far as I know, you will just have to pay the big bucks until G$ decides the keyword isn't junk. Unfortunately, the days of finding a keyword with no other ads and getting it for 5 cents a click are gone.

Freq---

sore66

10:57 pm on Jan 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Too bad those 5 cent days are gone.

I can buy bulk traffic for .007 cents a click direct to my sponsor's landing page and that's what I'm going to do.

WebFusion

12:24 am on Jan 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I can buy bulk traffic for .007 cents a click direct to my sponsor's landing page and that's what I'm going to do.

Bulk traffic, huh?

Might as well light your fireplace with your money...at least you'll be getting some use out of it.

AdWordsAdvisor

3:39 am on Jan 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Has anyone had success in getting keyword prices lowered by corresponding with google?

No, it simply doesn't work that way. The process by which keywords are assigned minimum bids is entirely automated. There are no manual controls that a support person can 'adjust' to effect a change.

AWA

sore66

6:02 am on Jan 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

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1:1000 conversion on bulk traffic costs me $7 max.
1:40 conversion on targeted traffic costs me $8 at 20 CPC

I don't see much difference in burning thru 100,000 in (somewhat defined) bulk traffic verus burning thru 400 click-thrus...especially since the uncontested words I really want are all at 50 cents to $1 to activate.

And it's not "the machine", it's the "program and the programmer" who set the algorithm.

jtara

7:55 am on Jan 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

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And it's not "the machine", it's the "program and the programmer" who set the algorithm.

Sigh. Yes, this is the biggest problem I see with Google. It seems to be a company run by programmers.

And I am a programmer.

The utterly insane quota system for the API is a great example of stupid decisions made by programmers getting in the way of profits and usability.

As if Google has a capacity problem with advertisers sucking up too many resources uploading and manipulating profit-producing ads.

Somebody's misguided notion that web-based UI is more efficient.

vibgyor79

12:55 pm on Jan 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

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>>> I'm talking about keywords with no other ads running

Then you don't have a problem. Set the keyword CPC to activate the keywords. But you will probably be paying $0.05 per click and sometimes lower than that.

sore66

7:21 pm on Jan 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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As long as my NON-adwords generated sales are at a certain level, I will keep my campaigns inactive due to the questionable programming of the machine and the high pricing.