Hey All,

Well I'm really frustrated at my adwords campaign, and am hoping to get some support from other web hosts (I am a web host myself and is what the adwords is for). Now, I signed up recently and set a budget of $30 per day, set a $1.00 max click amount, which I think is very reasonable and have selected only a few keywords which are related to the industry. Such keywords that have an estimated 50~170 clicks per day and an average position of 1....

Now how come Google keeps on slowing/ disabling my campaign because of bad performance?

Any help would be appreciated!

Originally posted by PhilG
estimated 50~170 clicks per day and an average position of 1....

Now how come Google keeps on slowing/ disabling my campaign because of bad performance?



It's not the number of clicks, it's the click through rate - the ratio of views to clicks.

how do u increase views to clicks?

From my 'limited' experience of a few months with the adwords program for a hosting campaign, it really required some initial hard work to avoid getting the account 'slowed' down. I subsequently had it running 'active' and 'strong' but was totally disappointed with the type of clicks I was getting from some really strange URL's with the user just landing on my page and not going any further which led me to believe that these clicks were fraudulant, ....may not have been, but I was suspicious, with no proof. Strangely enough, a few days ago I received an email from the adwords team stating that my account would be credited with an 'adjustment' based on their findings of fraudulant clicks to my page.

However, all along, and with a fair deal of money spent, I did not get even one signup with this program and just yesterday deleted my adwords campaign.

This has been my experience and needn't necessarily be yours...on the contrary, yours may be a really succesful campaign. Good luck.

Originally posted by godspeed
how do u increase views to clicks?

Make your ads targetted to the keywords/phrases they apply to. If you were searching google, and your ad came up, what would make you click on it, more importantly, what would make you click on it and buy your service? Now extend that rational to your target market, write your advertisement copy appropriately, gather togethor a very large amount of money, and bingo.


Now, I signed up recently and set a budget of $30 per day, set a $1.00 max click amount, which I think is very reasonable and have selected only a few keywords which are related to the industry.


Last time I looked $1/click won't get you #1 on most of the hosting related stuff, unless you're targetting towards a local non-us market perhaps. What sort of keywords are you getting hits on? What's your conversion rate like?

It is due to the fact, the Click Through Rate was Low and wasnt performing well, and google has disabled that type of keyword of your campaign, i Recommend using more targetted keywords for your campaigns to reduce this common problem

As stated above the 1 buck range is not near the price for the most popular. Where you getting many impressions for the keywords you were using. The bottomline is you cannot compete with the big players out there on popular keywords for long, YOU will run out of cash. You will need to diversify your advertising strategy.

well, some one did not call google adwords as a pay per click system. some time I set the cpc to $2, about 3-4 clicks recieved. but when the cpc is set to $0.35 I get about 40-50 clicks.

my advice is to open other campaign and set the cpc lower then $1 and compare with your cerrent campaign ($1)

and you will get my point

Has anyne here experienced any significant success with Google Adwords???

Originally posted by En?gma
Has anyne here experienced any significant success with Google Adwords???

I think people using it over long periods of time have a nice return

Again, it doesn't sound like an overnight investment that turns into profit, I think that's what people are mistaking it for.

From what I know, you have to put money into it and keep modifying the settings, descriptions, etc.

Despite all the "state of the art" technologies, google won't use a simple technology like cookies to reduce multiple clicks from the same visitor within 1 minute. I have no doubt they'd be loosing lots of revenu if they did.

I hope microsoft (I'm not big fan) will teach them a lesson.

I hope microsoft (I'm not big fan) will teach them a lesson.

LOL