Comments on: Super Affiliate Bidding Strategies, Part II

By: D Legal

D Legal — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:37:00 +0000

Amit, those are some great tips. It’s always the little things that make a big difference.

I’m going to try and implement your bidding strategy next time I setup a new campaign.

thanks again!

By: tyler dewitt

tyler dewitt — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:22:48 +0000

Amit,

You have the best blog available thats for damn sure!

That makes a lot of sense I have been over looking the position thing for the last week now I’m finally starting to get somewhere if it wasn’t for your blog I’d probably be dead in the grass, but your blog has aloud me to speed thing up or get things done more fastly with out going down the pit falls.

A similar scenario would be organic search generally position 1 is click happy, but position 3 is the best position and I’d have to probably say the same about adwords because people get a more “selective thinking” when they get down to position 3-8, but then again sometimes people have a really selective thinking when they get to page two.

By: limpman

limpman — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:07:53 +0000

When I Set Avg Pos greater than 8 and press “search” nothing shows up???

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:12:35 +0000

UPDATE: I figured it out! In my case the individual keyword bids didn’t matter so I used AdWords Editor to remove individual keyword bids on my keywords in that campaign!

Yeee-haw!

Peter

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:41:52 +0000

Amit,

I am a little dissapointed that it doesn’t work if you have bids on individual keywords

The default adgroup bid does not override the individual keyword bids.

How can I use this technique if I have my keywords each with a different bid? Is it possible?

Peter

By: Al

Al — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:57:55 +0000

Hey Amit,

When it comes to your losses, how long does it take you to “lose” that money? 1 week? 1 month. You mentioned you’ll net 1K in losses before the campaign turns around. I’m trying to gauge how patient you are with an offer timewise…

By: Miles Baker

Miles Baker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:19:32 +0000

That’s a great tip Amit! I had no idea you could do that with Adwords Editor.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:29:23 +0000

Yes, those are about the same techniques I have used. And unless the product is super hot and people are looking, I don’t see an actual ROI until day three or later, especially if I am bidding on content too.
In the early days, I would bid up content before day three, and then bam, day 3 eats me alive in charges.
Not any more.

By: Dolly

Dolly — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:00:57 +0000

This is off topic but please advise when is your next presentation, Amit.? Thanks.Dolly

By: Charles Ngo

Charles Ngo — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:33:07 +0000

that’s because it’s an impossible question to answer. I usually go to the google adwords estimator tool. Plug in a few keywords and your max CPC, and it’ll give you a rough estimate of what you can expect to pay.

I found that $ is a concern for me in the beginning. What I do is focus on exact/phrase matches only. It’ll give me a higher CTR, AND more bang for my buck.

After some fine tuning and eliminating a lot of bad keywords, THEN I’ll go broad to expand my list.

Good post. I’m going to start playing with Adwords editor a lot more to try and discover nifty tricks.