Trouble starts right off the bat

Submitted by chassm on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 07:01.

I think I may have a problem, I've been working on my site for a couple of months and only recently decided to start testing one of the landing pages, I chose highly related keywords and started to create my campaign on AdWords, as soon as I put the keywords in and clicked continue, AdWords said that none of my keywords were triggering ads and every one of them is set at $10 or improve quality.

I have the right keywords I know that, the main keyword which is "paid surveys" appears all over the place in the different keywords and the ad copies, as well as the landing page. If I click on a link that says details and recommendations, I get a message that says: "Check back occasionally. There's not enough information to provide accurate Quality Score data."

So I don't know if this is normal or if there's really something wrong.

Has anyone experienced this?

I've never had Google set

Submitted by mmuise on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 14:08.

I've never had Google set any of my keywords at $10, but I've read that when Google demands that much money per click, the problem is with the quality of the website (or lack of a website).

I'd assume that if you've been working on your site for a couple of months that it has a lot of good content, though, so your situation is puzzling...

Moe

I would have to take a wild

Submitted by Barry_G on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 17:12.

I would have to take a wild guess and say it is the "paid survey" niche period. End of story.

The claims made by these "paid survey", make money from home just for your opinion, type lists, which is really all the product is, a list of company's that alledgelly pay an individual or give them merchandise for filling out some type of survey, are nothing more than CRAP.

A person eventually must make several purchases along the way to reap any type of compensation from the "paid survey".

This infuriates people to not only return the products, but also complain to Google, letting them know what worthless information their search engine has provided.

Keywords like "paid survey",

Submitted by CT on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 03:57.

Keywords like "paid survey", "online survey", etc. are wildly competitive keywords due to clickbank's affiliates.

I think the competition kick in too for such a high cpc.

CT
https://twitter.com/ct2008

Dang! :(

Submitted by chassm on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 01:43.

Thanks for the feed back guys, I didn't know it would be such a difficult niche. The way I have the website structured is, the main theme of the site is online business, from there I branch off into these smaller sub-niches like paid surveys, ebay dropshipping and such. All clickbank stuff of course, but since it is all related to the topic of online business, I really didn't think this would be a problem, and the search volume is up there so people may have bad experiences with paid surveys, but there are tons of others looking for this info, so it's a bit of pickle now.

What experience do you guys have with clickbank overall? I know it's all mostly info products but there's got to be something worth promoting there.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
Charlie.

there are some topics that

Submitted by Stephen Carter on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 06:25.

there are some topics that Google considers "bad" in the AdWords context, and paid surveys is one of them. so is any free download type site. download free psp, ipod, mp3 files etc. these all fall into the scammy classification. ClickBank affiliates who try to promote these topics using AdWords always run into trouble.

but there are lots of ClickBank products that are entirely legitimate and won't cause you any AdWords grief. if you stay out of the internet marketing category you find lots of them. but as your niche is online business you probably just need to be selective in the products you consider.

Stephen Carter
creator of Review Foundry

Thanks

Submitted by chassm on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 04:22.

Well, I guess I'll be looking a little harder for better products, this was a good lesson though. I did overlook researching the niche, so I could have avoided this had I known earlier.

Thanks.

I would start afresh by

Submitted by mmuise on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 13:48.

I would start afresh by picking a target audience within the "online business" market, and then learning as much as possible about their needs. While doing this, keep in mind the kinds of affiliate products that audience might be interested in.

As one example, you could target stay-at-home moms who are looking to start a part-time business from home. (I know that's a competitive niche, but with a bit of creativity in your keyword research, you could probably find pockets of less competition.)

Moe

Thanks Moe. Yes I have not

Submitted by chassm on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 01:03.

Thanks Moe.
Yes I have not yet given up on the online business niche it is pretty big however, speaking of finding sub-niches, has anyone here used or heard good things about "micro niche finder", I almost bought it not long ago, but I'm skeptical about the overall usage and effectiveness.

Thanks guys.

I've been using Micro Niche

Submitted by richr on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 02:36.

I've been using Micro Niche Finder for about a year now. It's basically a wrapper for the free version of WordTracker and Google search. I find it extremely useful for SEO work and identifying low competition keywords to use for article topics for submitting to directories. I don't use it for PPC work though.

Rich

Interesting...

Submitted by chassm on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 03:00.

Thanks Rich,
So it's not necessarily a good PPC tool? Well, I did see the video demo and I was curious but not enough to spend the $67 for it.