I just finished creating an ad campaign for a gay site, and I was shocked to see that EVERY keyword was priced at $5 or $10, even though when I pre-checked the keywords, most did not have enough data to even estimate a price, and some of the keywords were so random or benign I could not understand how people were bidding so hotly for them.
Becoming suspicious, I then added the following meaningless keywords and received the minimum bids required to activate them:
Keyword........Cost Per Click
[hot dog love] $5
[keyword] $10
[made up word] $5
[uthengh] $5
[fubar rhubarb] $5
[ajkadiorewporew] $5
[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz] $10
[google] $10
[google keyword] $10
So to test the theory further, on another campaign, a straight site with the same PR, size, and theme (just less hot man-on-man action), I added thoese words as well. They were all around $0.20 a click.
Becoming suspicious, I then added the following meaningless keywords and received the minimum bids required to activate them:
Keyword........Cost Per Click
[hot dog love] $5
[keyword] $10
[made up word] $5
[uthengh] $5
[fubar rhubarb] $5
[ajkadiorewporew] $5
[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz] $10
[google] $10
[google keyword] $10
So to test the theory further, on another campaign, a straight site with the same PR, size, and theme (just less hot man-on-man action), I added thoese words as well. They were all around $0.20 a click.
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