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Grrr... Telephone #'s in Adsense Ads

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01-05-2005, 11:33 AM

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Grrr... Telephone #'s in Adsense Ads

Adwords, I love them.

They're still too restrictive, but now I'm getting burned by them not being restrictive enough.

I've seen a boat load of ads with phone numbers in them (Of course, it becomes a yellow page listing with no reason for folks to click, only a reason to call the number), and my CTR is 1/15th that of my overall average for sites :-(

Anyone else experience the same thing?

-Allan

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01-05-2005, 11:53 AM

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I haven't seen that yet, but I agree that it's sneaky. Google lets you remove ads that you don't want to show. You could always use that feature.

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01-05-2005, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by -RJ-

I haven't seen that yet, but I agree that it's sneaky. Google lets you remove ads that you don't want to show. You could always use that feature.

Yeah, I did do that, but it seems that all the top "performers" for the topic (travel) are using the same phone # tactic.

-Allan

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01-05-2005, 03:33 PM	· #4
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01-05-2005, 04:08 PM

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I've seen them go as far as to say - " Don't click here - Call US here xxx-xxx-xxxx ! "

Not on Goog I don't think but other PPC Engines ~ Now thats wanting some free Advertising

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