What kind of ratios do you get with Google's adwords?

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  • dropped9
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    • Jan 2001
    • 26727

    #1

    What kind of ratios do you get with Google's adwords?

    What kind of ratios do you get with Google's adwords? Is it as good as normal se stuff?
  • brizzad
    holla
    • Jul 2003
    • 11769

    #2
    Depends on the wording of your ads. I recently ran 2 campaigns for the same site, both at the same max CPC and daily budget, the only change was the wording of the ad. One converted 1:17, the other 1:97

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    • Headless
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      • Jan 2001
      • 26727

      #3
      Originally posted by brizzad
      Depends on the wording of your ads. I recently ran 2 campaigns for the same site, both at the same max CPC and daily budget, the only change was the wording of the ad. One converted 1:17, the other 1:97
      Not bad not bad... was that straight to the sponsor or?

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      • Headless
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        • Jan 2001
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        #4
        So I guess we should expect to see a 1 in couple hundred ratio as a norm right? Otherwise it wont be profitable...

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        • brizzad
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          • Jul 2003
          • 11769

          #5
          Originally posted by Headless
          Not bad not bad... was that straight to the sponsor or?
          Straight to an ebook site that I own

          Originally posted by Headless
          So I guess we should expect to see a 1 in couple hundred ratio as a norm right? Otherwise it wont be profitable...
          1 in a couple hundred at most.

          If its a very competitive market and you have to pay a high CPC, then try including the price in your ad.. or at least have it say "Buy X" somewhere in the ad.

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          • Headless
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            • Jan 2001
            • 26727

            #6
            Originally posted by brizzad
            Straight to an ebook site that I own



            1 in a couple hundred at most.

            If its a very competitive market and you have to pay a high CPC, then try including the price in your ad.. or at least have it say "Buy X" somewhere in the ad.
            Thanks for the tips! This is the first time I have really played with adwords...

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            • Harmon
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              • Mar 2004
              • 20012

              #7
              Biiiiiiiiiiiiiig balllllllllllllllla!!!

              HOLLLLLLLLLLLLA!!!
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              • Trent Edison
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                • Jun 2003
                • 6132

                #8
                Google AdWords is crack.

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                • Headless
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                  • Jan 2001
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Harmon
                  Biiiiiiiiiiiiiig balllllllllllllllla!!!

                  HOLLLLLLLLLLLLA!!!
                  Dont you have some shit surfer threads to start moron?

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                  • Harmon
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                    • Mar 2004
                    • 20012

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Headless
                    Dont you have some shit surfer threads to start moron?
                    Instead of Headless, it would be more fitting that they call you Clueless
                    [email protected]

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                    • brizzad
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                      • Jul 2003
                      • 11769

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Headless
                      Thanks for the tips! This is the first time I have really played with adwords...

                      no prob.

                      i love adwords... one more thing to remember, most of the keywords/phrases on adwords have a 0.05 max CPC, so if you made yours 0.06 it will show up a lot more, and you'll have a lot more potential clicks.

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                      • polish_aristocrat
                        Too lazy to set a custom title
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 40377

                        #12
                        to get better ratios you might target only US / Canada surfers and possibly also disable displaying your ads on content pages ( go to campaign -> settings etc... from what i remember )

                        i never made big money with it though, just a coupled hundred here and there

                        people like WG probably make constantly $1k+ daily from it
                        I don't use ICQ anymore.

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                        • Headless
                          Registered User
                          • Jan 2001
                          • 26727

                          #13
                          Thanks guys!!!!!!

                          I did set it up to only target us consumers so... Ill tell ya one thing, I love fucking with new traffic sources...

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                          • bigdog
                            Confirmed User
                            • Jul 2001
                            • 6964

                            #14
                            adwords can be great at times. and other time you can blow threw several thousand dollars easily

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                            • brizzad
                              holla
                              • Jul 2003
                              • 11769

                              #15
                              Originally posted by polish_aristocrat
                              i never made big money with it though, just a coupled hundred here and there

                              people like WG probably make constantly $1k+ daily from it

                              There's definitely A LOT to be made from adwords, that is, if you have money to get started and play around testing things. I'm planning on getting a 'real' job soon just so I can have money I don't need to test things out.. I can still live off of my websites, but with the income from this real job, i'll have $100's extra a week to play around with. I plan on doing adwords with about 90% of this money.

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                              • polish_aristocrat
                                Too lazy to set a custom title
                                • Jul 2002
                                • 40377

                                #16
                                Originally posted by brizzad
                                There's definitely A LOT to be made from adwords, that is, if you have money to get started and play around testing things.
                                just curious, when promoting ADULT sites, are you sending directly to sponsor tours, or landing pages?

                                I prefer straigh forward, sicne it saves time and you dont have to make the pages and it's easier to track IMO. But it might convert worse a little

                                actually tracking is a problem for me, let's say I promote nasty dollars with 3 different PPc Se's, then comparing all the stuff and checking where the sales come from can be a tough job ( or when you also send traffic f.e from galleries to nasty dollars and also from Adwords, and as u know sponsors often show "blank" for referring pages so you cant figure out where the sale came from and you cant tell exactly if the campaing is profitable )

                                and adwords also have all the BS rules and that's discouraging

                                or when they disable my keywords, becaue of too low CTR... or when i start a new campaign, submit keywords and some of them are already disabled from start,lol....

                                the whole thing may sound like spendign $30 daily and making easy $50, or spending $300, making $500 etc, but it's actually not that easy and you have to analyze a lot...

                                but after I wrote this.. well, maybe it's time to play with it more again, instead of wasting time on GFY
                                I don't use ICQ anymore.

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                                • polish_aristocrat
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • Jul 2002
                                  • 40377

                                  #17
                                  btw brizzad, werent you making money with adssense? that's the opposite of adwords

                                  or are you both buying and selling traffic to google?
                                  I don't use ICQ anymore.

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                                  • adonthenet
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                                    • Feb 2005
                                    • 16753

                                    #18
                                    not worth the $$

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                                    • brizzad
                                      holla
                                      • Jul 2003
                                      • 11769

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by polish_aristocrat
                                      just curious, when promoting ADULT sites, are you sending directly to sponsor tours, or landing pages?
                                      I don't promote adult sites via adwords.

                                      Originally posted by polish_aristocrat
                                      btw brizzad, werent you making money with adssense? that's the opposite of adwords

                                      or are you both buying and selling traffic to google?
                                      I was making money with adsense, but sold almost all of those sites so I could start earning per sale instead of click. It's a little harder to do, but it's more profitable to the right person.

                                      I'll start playing with adsense again whenever google decides it'd be a good idea to let me transfer my adsense earnings into my adwords account

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