SEM Tycoon

**ManicBoss** · 02-24-2007, 02:57 PM

Hello all:

As many of you know Google has tweaked the Adwords program and it has resulted in keywords jumping from $.40 (forty cents) to $10.00 per click, knocking many of us out of the game.

You may have seen this on your account:

Increase quality or bid $10.00 to activate

I've done a ton of reading (ShoeMoney, DP, even Google) and have heard several stories:

1) This was a momentary glitch, soon to be fixed.

2) Sites that link to affiliate landing pages are 'slapped' with the $10.00 click and remain shut down until the advertiser agrees to pay it.

3) Landing pages of poor quality cause the 'slap.' In other words, Google is spidering the landing pages and making quality judgments. If they don't like the page, slap slap slap.

So what's the story? Anyone got the straight answer? Google has been very evasive, and I find it hard to believe they would handicap their big earners based on 'site quality'.

**xharrisonx** · 02-24-2007, 05:40 PM

Could you please link me to an article about this?

**ManicBoss** · 02-24-2007, 05:50 PM

The boards won't let me post URLs.

(I was a frequent contributor here last year but got wrapped up in a non-internet project that took me out of the country. My laptop was knicked and I can't recall my previous username/password, thus the new one with 2 posts. :blush: )

Anyway, copy/paste this into Google:

Increase quality or bid $10.00 to activate

And go to Shoemoney.com and search for this post:

New Adwords Quality Score Bot Aims To Nuke Arbitragers

And that will give you a good start.

**imported_babyboy808** · 02-24-2007, 06:58 PM

Quote:

(I was a frequent contributor here last year but got wrapped up in a non-internet project that took me out of the country. My laptop was knicked and I can't recall my previous username/password, thus the new one with 2 posts. )

Let me guess CIA related... and when the job was finished they fried you memory :blink:

**ManicBoss** · 02-24-2007, 08:51 PM

Right! How did you guess?

I'm a spy from Google. My brain was erased in Belgium, and re-programmed to visit the Earner's Forum, memorize anonymous user names, and report them to the Google Reich Meister.

You, sir, are a genius on par with Oliver Stone.

Now, any adults care to respond?

**TimeIsMoney** · 02-25-2007, 03:05 AM

you sound like this guy:

**ManicBoss** · 02-25-2007, 05:20 PM

xharrisonx:

Found the answer..and man, is Google up to some tricks.

Hit me off line and I'll tell you what I learned. The smarta$$e$ above can keep guessing.

manicboss-at-yahoo

**cornetto** · 02-26-2007, 07:38 AM

No, come on, just post the info here. I experienced the price hike on my adwords account, and after a few days it went away again. I certainly wasn't going to raise my bids to $10. I wonder if anyone did?

**jesterx** · 02-28-2007, 12:05 AM

ha ha i loved that movie man...

regarding this topic, i heard from marketer ed dale that there has been another google slap.....yes the third one

some people have been affected and some havent.

it seems the ones that had the most problems were people promoting multiple websites with same sorts of keywords..if thats the case there are going to be some angry little critters out there at the moment.

**imported_colorless** · 03-08-2007, 07:43 PM

I've had this happen to me once or twice. I paused the campaign, re-added the words and I was good to go. Give it a try.

**SunShyne** · 03-20-2007, 03:35 PM

I got the same thing so I sent a scalding letter to their support. They told me it was becuase the words I chose were worded differently from my sites purpose and it appeared I was using words not related to my "purpose" so they branded me an affiliate type site and jacked up each word's pricing.

I find it all to be bs and just another attempt by google to increase their cashflow to fund the Reichs leader's summer home in Tahoe...

**jaydubs** · 03-27-2007, 05:44 AM

Hi,

The Adwords bid price hikes are supposed to be related to whether you have relative keywords to the wording of your ads, as well as whether the destination page is relevent to your keywords from what I have read.

So either you have to make your own landing pages/websites to send people to and make sure you have tightly focused keywords in your adgroups or you pay hugh money.

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**jesterx** · 04-10-2007, 09:39 PM

LOL I keep getting that email spam every day at about 6am.....dont think it is very appropriate time for that kind of stuff...other mates might disagree..LOL

**imported_Smaaz** · 04-11-2007, 08:03 AM

Yeah do that, just stop it for few days and reinstate things it works for many. Give it a try.