There has been various lawsuits on trademark violations in adwords. competitors are usually tempted to advertise on more popular competitor brand names. We had a client ask us to advertise on a popular competitor name but we denied it since it might back fire . There are numourous lawsuits already against google as well as other companies which violate trademarks,

We dont want to get into all these problems, we did post recently about one lawsuit where one company won over the other about a million dollar

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Google's analytics don't show the exact data what adwords show in its clicks. We tried comparing it varios client sites and most of them dont match the results. We feel its most probably that analytics works on a different way than how adwords tracks clicks and all adwords clicks dont always end up in Google analytics statistics.

Couple of reasons given by analytics advice team

There is an important distinction between clicks (such as in your AdWords Campaigns reports) and visits (in your Search Engines and Visitors reports). The clicks column in your reports indicates how many times your advertisements were clicked by visitors, while visits indicates the number of unique sessions initiated by your visitors. There are several reasons why these two numbers may not match:
1. A visitor may click on your ad multiple times. When one person clicks on one advertisement multiple times in the same session, AdWords will record multiple clicks while Analytics recognises the separate page views as one visit. This is a common behaviour among visitors engaging in comparison shopping.
2. A user may click on an ad and then later, during a different session, return directly to the site through a bookmark. The referral information from the original visit will be retained in this case, so the one click will result in multiple visits.
3. A visitor may click on your advertisement, but prevent the page from fully loading by navigating to another page or by pressing their browser's Stop button. In this case, the Analytics tracking code is unable to execute and send tracking data to the Google servers. However, AdWords will still register a click.
To ensure more accurate billing, Google AdWords automatically filters invalid clicks from your reports. However, Analytics reports these clicks as visits to your website in order to show the complete set of traffic data.

I feel it should be one of the reasons to this,

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Adsense google's ad publishing programme has been one of the most successful online ad publishing for both google and website owners who publish adsense ads on their websites. We use adsense in couple of our information sites the revenue from adsense is pretty less we get about .20 cents for a click and it averages around 10 to 20$ of income per day. Though its not bad but its not sufficient enough to even run those websites because of the cost of constantly improving and maintaining those websites.
So is there an alternative to adsense it should be as good as it is though, We tried advertising.com, adbrite, amazon, fastclick none of them work even near to adsense we are serionsly looking for an alternative will continue to keep adsense till we find the right alternative for this.
Someone suggested CJ we will be trying them soon,

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We get offers all the time from this site contactthem.ws asking for us to place a ad link and they are willing to pay 4800$ for it. Is it true or is it a scam we just dont want to comment on it without any experience with them. I have seen various forums discuss this to be MLM scam and we don't have to fall for it.
Does anyone have any experience with this guys. Anyone got a pay check from them for placing the ad if yes please post your experience in our comment section.

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I read an interesting thread in webmasterworld where a newbie to internet wants to start a business and make 100$ a day in 3 months. So is it so easy to do? I feel it all comes down to hitting the right one for you and making the most out of it. I have seen people do it in a very short period of time without any previous experience,

My first and last suggestion will be to select the best interest for you and work towards it, try to understand what type of person you are and work towards what is best for you. In future ill be posting a major success story of myself. I am too busy to share my great experience now but will definetely do it in future,

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Comscore a industry leader in monitoring search engine paid advertising has reported reduction in paid search engine clicks in google. This is the first time there is a decrease in paid clicks for a continues 3 months.

This is a major worry for google's investors. Google has relied heavily on paid search revenue and this is a major draw back for them. A drop in paid revenue in something Google has to think about,

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Microsoft offered adobe a revenue sharing in its Ad programme. MSN Adcenter has offered Adobe sharing of its advertising revenue in exchange for promoting silverlight Microsoft's video hosting platform. Its a smart move by Microsoft since its very difficule to compete with Youtube and other major video hosting sites.

Silverlight Streaming service, was announced by Microsoft last april same time when its Silverlight service was launched is a platform that: encourages the spread of the client software, and it showcases what has so far been the technology's major strength: video. Free service provides more than 5 GB of hosting space for videos and about 5 Tera bytes of bandwidth usage which is much higher than youtube. This looks like a favourable move from Microsoft towards bringing potential users to its video streaming service.

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According to internal news from yahoo it seems to seek ways to increase the value of its bid from Microsoft. Current value of yahoo stands at 41 billion USD, Yahoo is planning to increase it to 45 billion. Yahoo has predicted its 2010 earnings from online advertising to be around 9 billion about 70% more than its 2007 earnings. If Yahoo is capable of pleasing its investors definetely it will win a increased bid from Billsoft.

But Many Wall Street Investors predict Microsoft will win Yahoo in the current bid. Seeing Yahoo's potential and the bid value they predict its the right bid from Microsoft to acquire Yahoo.

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We have seen some advertisers display wrong URLs in display URL but when we click on the URL it goes to a page completely different from what was mentioned in the URls. We reported some of these competitors and Adwords team did take things seriously and removed those ads or replaced them with them with the correct ads.
Advertisers do this mostly to cheat the Google's policy on 1 TLD URL per list of sponsored results. Say there are 10 affiliates having different IDs pointing to the same Merchant Google's policy is to allow only 1 affiliate mostly the highest bidder. To cheat this webmaster have a wrong display URL thinking that Google will ignore them. Now adwords quality team is very strict on this and they disallow ads doing this

PPC Management Team,

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We had some client PPC campaigns have inactive keywords but still they get impressions and clicks so what causes this, Most of the time this is caused when the keyword is inactive in search but still active in partner networks. Google has a range of partner sites which serve google results for their clients. GOogle's adwords campaign also serves sponsored results to these sites most probably keywords show impressions and clicks because of this. Though keywords are inactive in google search they are served in Google partner sites.
Other possible reason according to a Google Adwords support guy is that Due to various changes in bidding keywords jump between inactive and active status. Say suppose a advertise run out of funds then if our bid is low and the keyword is inactive it might get activated since the Competitor ads stop showing up. Similiarly if some high bidders reduce their Maximum bid or stop their keywords / campaign then the keywords even if they are low bidding and inactive will start showing up. A keyword will jump from Active to inactive and inactive to active if any ofthe above happens. This is an other reason keywords still has impressions / clicks even if they show inactive status

PPC Management TEAM ( Search Engine Genie )

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Is this a April fool Joke or a real change by google, When we recently logged into our client's adwords campaign management system we saw the following notice from google.

"Important Change to URL Policy Enforcement
Starting in April, display URLs for new ads will be required to match their destination / landing page URLs, without exception. Please adjust your URLs accordingly when creating new ads."

What the heck how can this be possible some of our clients have product URLs that are very long and cannot be matched with the display URLs. Also google adwords offer a limited space for display URLs and this is if true a ridiculous change and almost impossible to be implemented in our campaign.

Adwords advisor in webmaster world is giving some really funny suggestions. Does he really mean it or he is just playing the GOogle's April Fool prank which they always do every year. GOogle is the best search engine when it comes to playing users with their April Fool pranks. Most infamouse being the pigeon rank where google said it is gonna replace Pagerank their core algorithm with Pigeon rank
AWA says

"I would not necessarily recommend doing what I am going to suggest below, except in cases in which it is the only solution - because some folks think it looks weird, and thus maybe less 'trustworthy' somehow - but you could delete the www in the URL.

In other words you could use:

really-long-domain-name-for-the-company-i-work-at.com

Instead of:

www.really-long-domain-name-for-the-company-i-work-at.com

Would that do the trick for you?

If not, please contact AdWords support directly, and ask for advice using with the actual URL as an example. ;)
" LOL

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Recently we have seen an increasingly prompt answers from both adwords and the google adsense team. Usually google adsense team is slow to respond but now we got very quick answers. One of our adsense checks got stuck due to change of address we contacted the adsense support team they were quick to identify and solve the problem for us. Now our adsense pay checks are prompt

BTW we are eager to know anyone willing to share their adsense revenue here?

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