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barney · 07-31-2006, 01:43 PM

I've been dabbling with Goodle Adwords and discovered something that is
very irritating.
My goal was to come up with cheap key phrases, preferably $.01. As you
all know, you'd need 100 downloads to get 1 shareware sale or somewhere
thereabouts, and who knows how many clicks to get a download.

Not one of the over 100 phrases I came up with came in at $.01. All
were marked inactive by Google Adwords with minimum requirements over
$.01 to activate them.

In frustration I started doing regular Google searches on some of the
phrases hoping for ideas. I had assumed that all of my phrases had been
thought of by everyone already and that I needed something unique.

I was wrong.

I discovered that many of the phrases had NOT ONE adword ad. Not one!
And yet they will not allow a $.01 bid?

So apparently, there is something else I need to do to appease Google
for $.01 bids.

Has anybody done this successfully? I could swear I read a posting
somewhere that someone had done this.

07-31-2006, 01:43 PM	#1
barney Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: USA Posts: 203	Google Adwords oddity I've been dabbling with Goodle Adwords and discovered something that is very irritating. My goal was to come up with cheap key phrases, preferably $.01. As you all know, you'd need 100 downloads to get 1 shareware sale or somewhere thereabouts, and who knows how many clicks to get a download. Not one of the over 100 phrases I came up with came in at $.01. All were marked inactive by Google Adwords with minimum requirements over $.01 to activate them. In frustration I started doing regular Google searches on some of the phrases hoping for ideas. I had assumed that all of my phrases had been thought of by everyone already and that I needed something unique. I was wrong. I discovered that many of the phrases had NOT ONE adword ad. Not one! And yet they will not allow a $.01 bid? So apparently, there is something else I need to do to appease Google for $.01 bids. Has anybody done this successfully? I could swear I read a posting somewhere that someone had done this.