Yes… 😉 is time for me to do some advertising!!!
Doing manual advertising such as comment at others blog, participate forum, submit article to social bookmarking website able to attract real traffic. All this method are 0 cost, and it take times.
I have been doing this manually to promote my blog since April 2007, and now, I planning to do some advertising.
Back to my previous post regarding to MIRC ICT week, I have mention about the
Complimentary Ebay Consultation and Google Adword free 30days trail. I have send email to Mr HanSon (Malsysia’s Google representative) for this 30days free trail. Very fast respond from Mr.HanSon, few email chit chat with the information require, I get the coupon code already, is MYR120.00
I followed the instruction and sign up the Google Adword, I has choose the Prepayment method instead of PostPaid. My purpose is to avoid over charges if I forgot to stop the advertising campaign.
1st Disappointed
And because of this method, the system show
Your AdWords prepaid funds have been exhausted.We have stopped running your ads until you transfer additional funds into your AdWords account. Please visit your Make Payments page to fund your account and trigger our system to begin serving your ads again. If you need to update your payment details before attempting another payment, please visit your Billing Preferences page.
I am require to paid another MYR40 (minumum) to enable my account.
Although my balance of the account is MYR100 [MYR120 (coupon) – MYR20(activation fees)]
I have send email for google adword support, and ask if I could change to the post paid method to avoid the MYR40 charges, their reply was no! advice is ask me to close existing account and creating another with my preferred payment method( mean the previous coupon will be wasted)
So no choice I need to paid the MYR40… I have started to make a new campaign, while i key in my campaign name and all the keyword I need, then the below come out
2nd Disappointed
See the min bid there is MYR0.04 , but my ads run for few days already also no click, and no impression at all. I send this weired question to the support, the support answer me:
Thank you for your email. I’ve reviewed your account, and I found that all your keywords are currently inactive for search. Your ads won’t show with search results on Google or the search network while your keywords are inactive. Your keywords may become inactive for search if they don’t have a high enough Quality Score and cost-per-click (CPC) bid. This is another way of saying that your keyword or ad group’s CPC bid doesn’t meet the minimum bid required to trigger ads on Google or the search network. (Keywords marked inactive for search may still trigger impressions, clicks and charges for content sites whenever you have the content network enabled.)
WTH! Need to spend more?
By the way, this is also a good experience for me!
Thanks for sharing.. actually, i was planning to use Adwords on my client’s product.. and this was great to read your experience, please keep posting stuff like this ..
Never try Adword before. Thanks for the info.
You may try to increase your CPC to 0.05 to see whether they have any improvements. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this good review on adwords. I almost try it last year. But I do not know how easily I forget about adwords 😉
I agree with liciece, maybe you can try increase your CPC to other closer number. and see if it improvement.
If you increase it, don’t forget to tell us the result ya 🙂
Hi, I have approved your request for EntreCard-Advertising at InspiritBlog.com
I had inspiritblog.com/?p=14 written about a service recently, that promises to bring you a ONE MILLION thick unique traffic. Any such system sounds an advert-spam unless it comes from market biggie, but when it is free, it is worth trying out, I believe.
Nice Blog, by the way.
that’s too bad…thanks for the info..
btw, linked you up!
never try b4.. but thanks 4 ur information…..
Hey Calvyn. You usually can’t get 4 cent clicks on the search network unless you are ranked so hight that you don’t need paid advertising (catch-22). I’ve written a couple of posts detailing how to setup an Adwords account. Also a big factor may be your keywords. Email me and I don’t mind helping you find out some.
wow ~ kind of complicated oh +_+
anyway, is a good experiences to share among bloggers too.
Ask for another coupon from Google lo 😛
Yeah I knew some tricky stuff going on with the free coupon. Seem we can’t really relay on them. Thanks Calvyn for the valuable info.
lol which menas Google used tricky stuff to interact you create an account first. Fulamak
Now i only know why google so rich
not going to do any sign up that needs money.
None of my bids have been that low except when I am just trying to target content. It’s the market that determines the price and competition is fierce for just about anything.
Dude, before you are using adwords, learn first. Did you attend the Google seminar? Have them tell you about Quality score and so on…
Learn all of this before using Adwords:
– CTR
– QS – Quality score
– Bid high first
– Daily budget
– etc
All of this influence your ads..
liciece && eL > I increase to 0.05 so to 0.08 also no improve, the min stated there was 0.18 for some particular key word, so i adjust to 0.15… until not no click, but few thousand impression just for 2 days
Geiger > hope to see your post soon
lukxiufung >my friend has apply the coupon too, but choose the postpaid method and avoid the RM40 charges, after that he buy exabytes hosting and get RM100 adwords coupon too, but unable to put in, only one code per account
Jawa > too bad, the seminar are at KL, and hope they organize at penang soon
i faced same problem with you.
Your AdWords prepaid funds have been exhausted.We have stopped running your ads until you transfer additional funds into your AdWords account. Please visit your Make Payments page to fund your account and trigger our system to begin serving your ads again. If you need to update your payment details before attempting another payment, please visit your Billing Preferences page
Havnt started the campaign already credit exchausted. GOOGLE ADWORD NO SUPPORT at all , email them no response to me.lousy google adword