Google Adwords goes nuts with 2000% cpc increases - thousands affected

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  • Gottis
    Confirmed User
    • May 2004
    • 1746

    #1

    Google Adwords goes nuts with 2000% cpc increases - thousands affected

    I'm surprised there aren't threads about this on gfy.

    Advertisers are seeing increases of their minimum bids of up to 2000% across the board. Anybody here been affected?

    I'll break it down for ya'll - straight from Google:

    "From time-to-time, we improve our algorithms for evaluating landing page quality (often based on feedback from our end-users), and next week we're launching another such improvement. Thus, over the coming days a small number of advertisers who are providing a low quality user experience on their landing pages will see increases in their minimum bids. It is important to note, however, that the vast majority of advertisers will not be affected at all by this change, as they link to quality landing pages."

    Lots of furious advertisers can be found at http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/ (I hope it's okay to link to a mainstream forum).
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  • teksonline
    So Fucking Banned
    • Jan 2005
    • 2904

    #2
    there are, they were days ago, when they happened

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    • Gottis
      Confirmed User
      • May 2004
      • 1746

      #3
      You'd think Google would do something like this to collect more money from advertisers, but when they're uppin' the min. bids that much there's something else going on. Nobody can follow through and still make a profit on their PPC campaigns with such increases.

      Advertisers bidding real low (based on high CTR), on A LOT of KWs, are being hit real hard.
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      • Love Sex
        Confirmed User
        • Nov 2004
        • 1905

        #4
        adsense has been rockin as ussual

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        • Love Sex
          Confirmed User
          • Nov 2004
          • 1905

          #5
          adsense has been rockin as ussual

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          • Gottis
            Confirmed User
            • May 2004
            • 1746

            #6
            Originally posted by teksonline
            there are, they were days ago, when they happened
            lol, fuck. I knew I shouldn't have gone on vacation.
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            • czarina
              Webmaster Extraordinaire
              • Jul 2002
              • 10751

              #7
              that sucks for people who use adwords. Now, for us making money with adsense, it's good news.

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              • czarina
                Webmaster Extraordinaire
                • Jul 2002
                • 10751

                #8
                that sucks for people who use adwords. Now, for us making money with adsense, it's good news.

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                • Spudstr
                  Confirmed User
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 2321

                  #9
                  its easy to adjust to this, create more landing pages relavent to your terms. Its actully not hard to do this if you know some code and can see what keywords are comming in.

                  think about it if you have more focused landing page to the keywords overall your conversions will go up.
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                  • Tom_PM
                    Porn Meister
                    • Feb 2005
                    • 16443

                    #10
                    I first noticed it 3 nights ago.. yeah it sucks hairy ass.. A lot of us are awaiting reviews by their quality people. A lot more have said FU and moved on to other advertising methods I guess..
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                    • $5 submissions
                      I help you SUCCEED
                      • Nov 2003
                      • 32189

                      #11
                      If anyone needs CUSTOM TEXT for landing pages (we can do dozens to THOUSANDS of them!) hit me up. Email is info AT webmasterlabor D O T com

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                      • pornsearcher
                        Confirmed User
                        • Apr 2006
                        • 1735

                        #12
                        Originally posted by czarina
                        that sucks for people who use adwords. Now, for us making money with adsense, it's good news.
                        it will affect adsense indirectly ,no adverisers no no income for publishers

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                        • Doctor Dre
                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                          • Jan 2001
                          • 51692

                          #13
                          Do you even have an adword account ? lol
                          There have been at least 10 threads about this so far.
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                          • czarina
                            Webmaster Extraordinaire
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 10751

                            #14
                            that sucks for people who use adwords. Now, for us making money with adsense, it's good news.

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                            • Gottis
                              Confirmed User
                              • May 2004
                              • 1746

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Doctor Dre
                              Do you even have an adword account ? lol
                              There have been at least 10 threads about this so far.
                              Fucking idiot lol
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                              • Manowar
                                jellyfish  
                                • Dec 2003
                                • 71528

                                #16
                                they are on crack

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                                • milambur
                                  Mainstream since 2010
                                  • Jan 2003
                                  • 1327

                                  #17
                                  I'm so pissed at those fucker at the moment, wtf are they thinking. Lost over 90% of my adwords revenue in 1 day, both porn and mainstream..... No warning at all, just fucked me over.
                                  Alea iacta est

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                                  • Chris
                                    Too lazy to set a custom title
                                    • May 2003
                                    • 27880

                                    #18
                                    I am sure google will make this right
                                    some increases just do not make any sence to me :-/

                                    well .. hopefully
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                                    • czarina
                                      Webmaster Extraordinaire
                                      • Jul 2002
                                      • 10751

                                      #19
                                      oops, sorry, my browser got stuck or something

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                                      • WiredGuy
                                        Pounding Googlebot
                                        • Aug 2002
                                        • 34512

                                        #20
                                        Adwords can blow me, I'm fed up of their methodology.
                                        WG
                                        I play with Google.

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                                        • p1mpdogg
                                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                                          • Nov 2002
                                          • 16714

                                          #21
                                          i was counting on wiredguys response.

                                          i hope it doesnt hurt your bottom line charles,will you send me your traffic now please? thanks bud, i knew i could count on ya
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                                          • sacX
                                            Confirmed User
                                            • Dec 2002
                                            • 2998

                                            #22
                                            still unaffected here.
                                            Have Asian Language Traffic?

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                                            • camuseeme
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Feb 2006
                                              • 413

                                              #23
                                              I had a page disapproved for some bullshit reason and did loose a few good keywords. I sent them a email and told them i'd take my business elsewhere. I'm sure they will change there ways now.

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                                              • bdld
                                                $100,000
                                                • Dec 2001
                                                • 11452

                                                #24
                                                looks like ads that were most affected were ones with a lot of keywords, a high CTR, and a low CPC. basically if you were doing everything right (and making a killing), they raised your bids from ~$0.05 to $0.50, even if there's no other competition for the KW.

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