Sep 16 2008

Adwords: New ‘First Page Bid Estimates’ Means Higher Prices

Category: pay-per-click advertisingJon Davis

Over the next couple days Google will be changing aspects of their Adwords algorithm that will likely have an effect on every advertiser currently using Adwords.  Quality Score will now be determined in real time, no keywords will be marked ‘inactive for search’ and most importantly ‘minimum bid’ will be replaced by ‘first page bid’.  The last change is likely to have the greatest effect on advertisers.

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Jun 19 2008

Not so Dynamic Insertion

Category: general,pay-per-click advertisingJon Davis

The dynamic keyword insertion tool for adwords is a great tool for managing large amounts of diverse keywords within an adgroup. For those of you who are not familiar the keyword insertion tool allows you to place a code combined with a generic keyword into your ads. This combination results in the actual keyword the searcher was searching for appearing in the ad. This has been proven to help with click-through-rates because searchers respond more to seeing the exact phrase or word that they typed in.

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