marketingpilgrim.com — Google is planning on providing advertisers more information, in preparation for a major change in the coming weeks. Google claims advertisers will see their minimum bids drop, however, the last time they tweaked these settings, many saw drastic increases to their spending. I guess time will tell.
Feb 14, 2007 View in Crawl 4
dontknowmuchFeb 15, 2007
I spoke to one today, and he wasn't too pleased. ;-)
anpheusFeb 15, 2007
If you read the subtitle, it says that the minimum bid will decrease, not increase.Isn't that a good thing for people advertising for niche markets?
Closed AccountFeb 15, 2007
Anyone else notice that Firefox users are exactly like Mac and Linux users? They can fit the shameless plug in every single comment, every time. I mean, the products are great in their own right but EVERY thread?
gophergodFeb 15, 2007
I have no idea what this ultimately means, but it sounds like the are going to make more money by forcing people to pay more money for percieved value. A high bid is a high bid... Sure it may cost less for its minimum bid, but because it is a quality keyword it will get more people bidding to use that word...It just seems like smoke and mirrors.They are not really showing you anything, and they are just going to drive bids up on quality keywords.This is just driving traffic to keywords where Google makes more money... plane and simple. And it is going to drive up the cost of those keywords.
skitzzoFeb 15, 2007Submitter
Tons of legit companies buy AdWords. There's definitely a lot of spam going on as well but there's a lot of legit businesses selling products or services via AdWords.