Adwords - I'm desperate!

[shamrock36]

Hello,

I've been using Adwords for two years now,

I'm using it to try and promote my affiliate marketing websites,

I've created a variety of campaigns for several products,

when I started, in the first year or so, it went pretty good, I've managed to get traffic at descent rates.



But for the last year or so, something happened, adwords turned hundreds of my keywords into an "inactive" status, since they request enormous amounts per clicks - between $1 per click, to $5 and even $10, which is absolutely ridiculous.



I've contacted adwords support several times, basically what I understood from them is that maybe If I'll change my ad text it would work, but that was useless, as most of my keywords are already optimized, some of them are four words phrases that are very specific, and still I'm required to bid these enormous amounts.



I've now opened a new adwords account, hoping maybe that would help, meanwhile I've copied one of my adgroups to my new account and paused it on the older one, and It's still requesting the same high bids....



I'm very frustrated with this situation, and google adwords support are plain useless about this.... can anyone help me understand what's going on and what can be done??



Thanks!

 

[Mark]

Have you tried bidding on related terms that have lower bids ? - I know what you mean though , It's been a while since I bought any PPC from them - but there always seemed to be a problem with the listings eventually.

 

[shamrock36]

That's the problem, I've tried dozens of different phrases and keywords for dozens of products, and they all require the same rates...!

I just don't get it... once I've paid google well (now it's either pay them $1,000,000/month or pay almost nothing), they gave me back traffic, I generated some sales, and everybody was happy.... why did they screw it?

I think the only traffic I currently get from them is not from their search engine but from the content network, that doesn't work as well

 

[shamrock36]

Ok, I've made a little experiment:
I've opened two identical adgroups under the same campagin, for the same product - on the first one, I've had it to lead to a page on my website, that has the same content as the original page that sells the product with the affiliate link, only that I deleted all links from the page, so I only had the text (whiche is relevant I guess ) and that's it.

Adwords kept asking me for $1 - $5 per click.

on the second adgroup, I've linked it to a page on a website that is not mine, a page that is ranked #1 on google in the regular search, for this search phrase.

Adwords asked me for only $0.03 as min Bid.

So what conclusions can I draw?

A. I'm still asked for high bids since my domain is blacklisted for being affiliate oriented and I should create a new one, and it would be worth the time.

B. I'm asked for low bids on the other site, not because its not an affiliate website (it sells the product independently) but because it's already doing great on the regular goolge search, and if I'll create a new domain I'll still won't be able to change anything since it wouldn't do as well on google (Even if I don't put any affiliate links)
but then what's the logic with adsense, if your'e paying them to appear on a certain search term because your'e not doing good for it on the regular search?

 

[zachbb]

Sorry to hear that this happened to you. Apparently google makes changes which, over the long term, raises bid prices (found this out here, or google 'adwords bid changes': http://www.domainsocial.com/showthread.php?t=180).

I do not really see what you can do about it (apart from those tips, but they arent anything amazing). Perhaps you should just go for less competative keywords.