After running the campaign 15 days all my Keywords started ending up in the garbage bin hit by “quality scores” and bids went up from 0.10 to 0.15 cents to 0.30 to 0.40 cents. Is that not awesome? Google said “Your bid below first page bids ” even when there are no ads for that keyword ! Quality scores is a LIARS excuse of jacking up your bids and sticking you in the rear.

Google never shows you what other people are bidding so there is no way to know what you should bid, yet they hit you with noble causes like ” User experience ” and ” Quality scores” and if you an “endless stupid sucker ” you will buy into that fiction. Well I don’t.

This is fucking outrageous greed and lining of Google’s pockets. You pay higher bids and your Quality scores improves and than they whack you for higher bids once again using the same tactic. You can never win this game, its all fucking rigged from the git go. I was new to PPC, but not anymore.

Some of the keywords had NO other ads and how did my bid falls from the front page? The campaign became unprofitable, soon I paused it and wrote them an email.

IF Google thinks this business model works they can have their arrogant head up their ass. No one will go back there, despite the reason they have higher traffic, unless you want to pay more than you can make. It works for them , not for you .

This is the sad part of PPC business, you have use other people’s platforms and bow to their demands and you have no control.

I am done with Google. Finished with these ass wipes.

Dtons

PS: Writing them emails does nothing, I am spending 1000s dollars and they will not provide a telephone number to speak to anyone in that Adwords Department. Well Fuck that. No business needs to be supported for this attitude.

Truth been told; initially you will definitely see a lower conversion rate. But ask yourself this: would you rather see a lower conversion rate and optimize to that or NOT have a conversion rate from Adwords at all.. I think I can guess your answer

The good news is that if you split test right you can even that conversion rate out, or even go beyond that. Have a few (bridge) pages compete with each other make sure they get at least 1000 visitors each before you draw a conclusion, and CONSTANTLY keep improving it.

When you do that, you will win back that “lost” conversion rate.

Not sure how you count the 2 clicks away even Google and MSN are counting them differently but what I meant is that it can be on the page AFTER the landing page. So I guess one click away then..

Be creative, you can come up with all sorts of things. I wanna give you the tools not prefabricated ideas..

Our case studies have shown that this method actually prevents your account from being flagged for manual review.

Let me know how this works out for you Dave and good luck

a question for you…you mentioned this on amit’s site…

Everything seems to point in the direction of the manual reviews.

“I just want to point out to people that you can put up as many content as you want: as long as your Adwords Landing Page is still simply linking to Affiliate Partners, you will get slapped. It doesn’t matter if you mask or cloak your link. Just don’t link directly: use whatever creative means you have to get around that..”

what other ways can you link to an affiliate site as not to get slapped without using a direct, masked, or cloaked link? were you referring to direct linking on google?

btw great blog

But don’t worry - all that will be fixed when the new sections are live.

And this is not a landing page is it