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...

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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...

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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...

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I'm a bit confused: I'm seeing a different set of numbers for the referrals I've sent to Google for people who want to sign up for their AdSense program. I've never seen a $5 payout before, I thought that it...

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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...

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I'm a member of the Google AdSense program and find it a pretty decent way to earn some extra spending money from my Web site, but I'm wondering if there's a way for me to make a few bucks helping...

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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?...

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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?...

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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?...

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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...

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In light of Yahoo's move to ban trademark bidding, how long before Google follows suit? And how will Google's "quality score" component impact that decision?...

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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...

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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...

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