I purchase Adwords on Google and when I look for myself I often don't appear. Google says I have set my cap at $30 and I have used up most of that by the time I check it out. Is that true? How does that work and how can I best optimize my return and appear more often in my selected words?

Have you bought Google AdWords Video [actually it's called "YouTube Promoted Videos" -dt] before? I'm confused about whether the CPM bid for 1000 "plays" or 1000 "opportunities to play" the video on YouTube? Thx for any help! Their explanations are both automated and opaque.

There's a domain name up for sale that claims to make 10-30 dollars a day in ad dollars, given an average of about 1,000 hits a day. The web site targets Unix. Is this a valid claim?

I'm a happy subscriber to your splendid Blogsmart News newsletter and was glad to get a link to the amazing results with adwords lecture you did with Joy in the latest news. But I can't save it? How the heck do I save an mp3 file when the link is in an email message?

I can't believe this, but I just heard that Google AdWords is going to be extended to allow us advertisers to slip video snippets into our advertising? Can that be true, and if so, when can we try it out? I'm really excited as my product is perfect for little video demos...

A friend of mine was telling me how he's making a ton of money doing what he called "adwords arbitrage", but was very coy when I asked him what it was all about and how it worked. Can you explain it please?

I have some affiliate websites and use adwords. I was paying 5 to 10 cents a click for most keywords. I just checked online and see that almost all keywords are not showing due to low quality score. My click through rate has been 2%-5%. I see they are now asking between $.50 and $10. Is there anything I can do? Do you know what factors go into a quality score?

I have a google adwords campaign. When I look at my keywords in each adgroup, they all say active, yet most of them carry zeros in every other column. When I do a search my ad is not appearing and often there is only one or sometimes no other sponsered ads. Why is this happening, and why would it still say my keyword is active?

I love selling things but am not that strong with numbers. Are there suggestions on ways to organize my SEO, cost per click and stuff, but is easy on my brain?

I logged into my Google AdWords account to explore the possibility of tying my advertisement to a few new keywords, but I can't figure out how to ascertain how much it costs to get to the #1 position for a given keyword. Can you help me out?

Dave, I've been dabbling with Google AdWords with mixed results, but I have found a few Web sites that I think are just perfect for my ad campaign. What I'd like to do is run ads just on those sites. Is that possible, and if so, how do I do it?

Dave, what's the best way to find out what competitors are paying on Google AdWords for specific keywords or related? I don't have an AdWords account, however, or I could just use that to find out, I imagine.

I have an online shopping website in which I have setup google's Adwords Conversion tracking mechanism at two places, namely, Signup Confirmation and in the Payment page. In the Signup Confirmation page, I wish to track the number of signups occurring as a result of google adwords. While in the payment page, I wish to track the amount of the order.

Accordingly, while generating the conversion tracking code for payment page, I have entered value for the (Advanced option: conversion value) field to be equal to the order value. This Advanced conversion value helps to measure how much each conversion is worth to you.

In the Create Report screen while generating a customized report, which of the Conversion columns will help me track my order value if a conversion has occurred?

I'm thinking about using Google AdWords, but I have the following
question. When someone Googles the name of my business my link come up as the top search result. If an ad for my site is also displayed, and someone clicks on that ad instead of the search result link, do I pay for that click? It seems like I might be paying for click-throughs on ads that aren't actually generating business. Can I prevent this?

I'm a long time interaction designer and web usability consultant looking to move more into web publishing to generate revenue. I have number areas of domain expertise that I'm considering writing about. I'd like to prioritize these based on AdSense value, but am not sure how. Can you offer any tips?

I'm involved with a local woman's shelter, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and we're constantly struggling to gain visibility so we can get more donations and help more women. Recently someone told me that Google offers non-profits free advertising on their huge AdSense [she means AdWords --DT] network but I can't find any info?

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I am an HR person but right now I have given a task about marketing one of our websites for business. I am kinda new to it, I need to know what is pay per click and how website advertising works? Simply said, how do I market a website and make it sponsored link on Google, Yahoo and other search engines?

Hey Dave, I've been told that Google doesn't like squeeze pages any more and that that is why my clicks now cost about 100 times more than they used to. What gives? How do I get my cheap clicks back?

Dave, I've been reading about various tricks that marketing folks use to gain more traffic for their Web site through paid advertising and just came across deceptive keyword bidding, but I'm not clear what that really is. Can you clarify for me, please? For that matter, I don't fully understand how keyword bidding is done on Google AdWords anyway.

Social Media Networks like Facebook and LinkedIn offer businesses new channels through which to conduct marketing and advertising. But how effective are these, really? Ask any SEO or online marketing expert and they will tell you that it's an organic process and it takes time to develop real results. The key is to have good content that turns people into repeat visitors to your website - eventually they will buy.

Really? "If you build it they will come?"

If you run a weblog (aka "blog") you've probably already figured out that you can add Google Adsense to all your pages and make a few bucks from visitors (though don't forget to read some of the many articles on Free Web Money that talk about ad placement, etc. Start with Improving your Adsense Click Thru).

What you might not have realized is that there's sufficient traffic in the world of Weblogs that some new networks are popping up targetted specifically to the weblog-reading crowd.

I wish to start my own computer repair service, i don't have any certs in that field, but i know what each piece of hardware is called and where it goes etc, should i get any certifications before it think about starting my own business?