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A comment on Ask HN: Is Google adwords totally useless?.

Re:Ask HN: Is Google adwords totally useless? by Gustomaximus on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @07:58PM (#13370846)
Heavy headline. There is reason companies spend ~$70 billion on Adwords annually. So yes you are missing something.

Sounds like you may have been doing display not search. I'd avoid this until you learn more about campaign setup. Search side is easier/safer. Display can have better returns but is harder to achieve.

If you really want to advertise I say get a few thousand $$ together and get someone who knows what they are doing to have a crack.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google adwords totally useless? by teddyuk on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:45AM (#13372620)
It isn't really the cost I am worried about it is the fact that apart from 2 which were from a loosely related site they looked like bogus clicks i.e. some were from non-existent sites - how can that be from 10 only 2 were valid?
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Re:Ask HN: Is Google adwords totally useless? by Gustomaximus on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @07:34AM (#13373481)
Do you have examples of non-existent sites. That is something new to me.

Spammy. Very much. Even more so if you advertise in mobile apps.

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