Re:Ask YC: your google adwords experience?
by jamiequint on Monday October 08, 2007 @12:38PM
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Yeah, the interface really really sucks. We actually thought of making an adwords campaign manager for our YC idea (making buying adwords mindless and simple) but if you drill down into the TOS for all the major networks they are anti-competitive to the level of being ridiculous. It took me a few hours to actually figure out the adwords interface and I still don't fully understand it.
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Re:Ask YC: your google adwords experience?
by mynameishere on Monday October 08, 2007 @01:11PM
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the interface really really sucks
I've found the interface very good. I think it took about 15 minutes to go from zero to a worldwide ad campaign. Let's keep perspective.
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I pay about 6 to 10 cents per click. I get about 1000 impressions a day with a very small monthly budget. Adsense, by contrast, is completely worthless...maybe one click every couple months. Make sure you aren't corrupting your view of adwords by accidentally targeting adsense (which google encourages).
Completely depends on the sector though. Some things fly on the content network (adsense), some things die.
Re:Ask YC: your google adwords experience?
by sharpshoot on Monday October 08, 2007 @01:14PM
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Re:Ask YC: your google adwords experience?
by jamiequint on Monday October 08, 2007 @01:36PM
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AdWords works great once you actually get it working. Its getting to that point that is nonintuitive, particularly "inactive for search keywords" which are by no means easy to activate intuitively.
Have you ever endured MSN adcenter? Yahoo?
Google adwords is a dream compared to them. Also the desktop adwords editor is excellent - makes big changes easy to do.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwordseditor/