Are you currently as happy with Adwords as you were last year?

[bostonseo]

Simple yes or no question:

Are you as happy with Adwords as you were last year?

[DamonHD]

Yes

[TerriGW]

Yes

[doctor gerlis]

It's costing me a lot more money and I am not sure why
Possibilities: 1. Click Fraud increase
2. CPC increases
3. Increased competition

We are still getting good results but I hope the next year does not show the same level of cost increase. G seems to be still the best search engine although Yahoo seem to have upped their game recently.

[breny]

No

[Atomic]

No

[ThreeMikes]

Yes

[BriGuy20]

No.

More the fault of my product pipeline than AdWords itself, though.

[bostonseo]

We need more people participating here :)

[toddb]

Yes. They are constantly making changes and that gets old but over all the product is the same.

[chief72]

No! Admittedly I'm not doing as well so my comments could be perceived as being a little subjective.
Generally though I would like to see more consistency and transparency ie. less algo changes with better disclosure and explanation when said changes occur.

[Label_Lady]

Generally, no.

[VinceK]

No

[Tobias]

No

[Alternative Future]

Yes

[Syzygy]

Unfortunately the answer is a very definite, "no".

Syzygy

[ronmcd]

No. Oh no.

[cerebrum]

YES

[Jon_King]

As I have tweaked my ad buys, AdWords performs better and better. When I compare to print and other online venues the performance is outrageously higher.

Am I happy this as last year with AW, you bet.

[ClintFC]

No.

No doubt about it, the Google Halo has started its innevitable slide.

[archie goodwin]

Nope.

[venrooy]

Have only been using Google for about 6 months and it has been a constant roller coaster ride.

I'm happy with them today - but ask me again tomorrow.

[humblebeginnings]

No. Cause I am more happy than last year.
G gives my ads more exposure than last year and I am able to get more clicks that lead to conversions...

[pdivi]

No. Too many surprises.

[bostonseo]

So far we have 14 not as happy, 7 as happy and couple that don't take a position either way.

[cline]

No.

- Service quality has slipped a bit.
- Increased frequency of technical problems.
- Increased concerns about advertisers being treated fairly, especially with respect to ensuring that all advertisers are being made to comply with the same editorial policies.
- Increased issues with Google using Adwords for self-promotion.
- Continued concerns about click fraud.
- Loss of advertisers' targeting control due to changes in expanded broadmatch.

Adwords remains the gold standard in the business, but lately it has been trending in the wrong direction.

[SEOPTI]

No, their content network reviewers do not work at weekends. Slow review process.

[NetPro]

Yes

[javahava]

definitively no. the random minimum bids are too confusing, and caused costs to rise dramatically.

[subject98]

No, but not because of google but cause of more competition, on the keywords i target.