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Permalink Reply by James Scott on May 13, 2008 at 3:35pm

I'm still looking for information. I did some testing on Adwords, but have found it very frustrating. I don't see how my keywords, ads, and landing pages could be any more relevant than they are and yet AdWords says my minimum bid is 50 cents for what should be a low cost keyword.

I know a lot of people are frustrated. It is like trying to solve an intense mathematical equation that doesn't compute as it should.

One thing that really got me frustrated was that Google says my quality score is poor due to a lack of original content on my landing page. I did a chat with a Google representative and explained that all of the content is original relevant content. The Google rep then tells me that user submitted content in the form of blogs and discussions doesn't count as original content. What??? So I guess Google is telling me that my sites need to be less democratic and more authoritarian before I can buy traffic from them. This makes no sense.

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Permalink Reply by paul on May 16, 2008 at 10:52am

Google says their revenue is up from their AdWords program. I think one idea was to cut out some of the small time marketers by raising the minimum bid prices. That way, the big marketers can still afford to play in the system while many of the small marketers are taken out of the results. I think they wanted to take most of the small marketers out of the system because they felt they were less relevant since most small marketers are not the primary sellers of products, nor the authority sources for information.

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