Today seems like the day for lurkers to give back, so...<p>I've been doing PPC for over 10 years. My focus has mainly been advertising large, retail catalogs, but I've also worked with info products and service businesses.<p>I'm happy to help in anyway I can including:<p>- long-tail keyword ideas
- account organization
- ad copy
- bidding strategy<p>If you have a general question or don't mind sharing the details with everyone, I can answer here. Otherwise, I'm available at the email address in my profile.
Hi, thanks for the offer.<p>A general question: I do some Google PPC, LinkedIn PPC and Facebook PPC. I point those ads to specific landing pages relevant to the ads and keywords on my site.<p>I also track everything with Analytics (i check visitors, referrals, time on page, page views, keywords, countries).<p>I have a very small number of conversions (contact email sent via form). But I guess it's a numbers (%) game: I have a small amount of visitors.<p>The thing is: I check almost every day my stats on Analytics, but after my routine check of the stats i mentioned earlier, i really don't know what else to do/check/verify and what sort of "next action" I have to do with all the data I gather.<p>I guess, my question is: what's next?
I have a question about the qual score, for one of my most visited and converting keyword I have a qual score of 2.. probably because it is a broad match term (most exacts are 5-7)
Is there a way to improve this, should I create a separate landing page, I already use the keyword but maybe not enough. loading time score reports no probs.
Google has again offered me a free £75 voucher. I run an info business. Is it worth it to spend their money? Is it like gambling, will I get addicted to it and loose in the long run? And just how do you promote an information business, I mean, basically, is it worth it to spend the time in spending their money?
Do reliable price competitors to AdWords exist for niche arbitrage?<p>What sorts of advertising opportunities are there to yield a CTR/CPC combination ultimately yielding more than AdWords CPC?<p>Of course, I truly admire Google, and doubt any would exist for any length of time. Thoughts?
Wow.<p>When I put up my thread ( <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826828" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826828</a> ) I had no clue that it would spark off something like this. This community truly is amazing.
Did you have experience with AdWords API?
I'd like to advertise large number of jobs (hundreds or thousands) from my job board www.postjobfree.com using few-cents bids on Google AdWords.
Would AdWords API be right tools for that?
As a developer and long time Mac user, I can only ask, "How is Adwords any different on PowerPC?"<p>[In other words, if your niche uses some obscure jargon or acronym, don't assume most people know what it means...]
I will email you now. Thanks for this. Our site is at <a href="http://commerce.exorbyte.com" rel="nofollow">http://commerce.exorbyte.com</a> and we need this type of help.
UPDATE => I received more emails than I had expected, but I'm going to work my way through them today. More emails are welcome, but it might take me a day to reply.