Not sure what the root cause of this is but today I noticed a few ads that I clicked on in adwords ( note: not my ad’s I was shopping :) ) I got this error :

When I tried the same search using IE8 it worked fine, I have seen it on 2 sites so far today ..

DaveN

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DaveN

when you first look at this you think Dave most be crazy, he is losing money by running PPC , but you start looking a little closer you see a pattern.

the next 2 screen shots show me the times and what happen in a organic sale.

and

You can see this visitor can to the Site at 7:40 for a model number keyword listed in the organic serps, later in the day he came back twice again via organic serps this time the keyword was the url of the site but this time he purchased.

but you see the yellow box that say supported, well that means that the customer originally came from a PPC click, but what I found interesting was:

Customer in the Research Mode

Searches for single keywords example “laptops” or “Mobile PCs” ( in fact I did that today lol ), I was looking at buying an eeePC change my mind and started my research with “ultra light laptop”.

once in the research mode I start collecting a list of Model Numbers or manufacturers.

Customer in Purchase Mode

I start searching for model numbers, Like so many other users I guess because a site I found originally advertising on PPC with Mobile PCs, when I saw them listed organically for the model number I wanted to by, I clicked the listing and purchased.

DaveN

If your adwords users you will already have noticed that you ads being displayed on Google have had the clickable area is reduced to just the Title tag

the red outline shows you where the clickable area is :

also I noticed that the Google checkout logo is still clickable :

what I didn’t like here was the the checkout logo for Europc is very close the the dell link ??

Now if this was SEO agencies i guess you wouldn’t give 2 cents for that information, but Google for what ever reason, decided to pull the advance search abilities for Ad Agencies.

I saw this in my Client Center..

The ‘Copy or Move Keywords and Ad Text’ and ‘Advanced Search and Editing’ tools will be removed from all AdWords accounts on August 20th, 2007. These features are still available in Adwords Editor, which you can download for free. Learn more

so I downloaded the adwords editor, which didn’t work on MY Vista Machine, so any ideas how I can take 10,000 keywords and quickly add Unique tracking ID’s and Url’s to each…

DaveN

Googles Adwords editor and Microsoft Vista just don’t work together, It’s really really annoying !

why can’t we just have an export all function to excel..

DaveN

How do I explain to a client that wanted to just use Google, that his Google Adwords say they sent 5 times the people his Google Analytic’s say the whole site received .. apart of HAHAHA told you so..

Btw In the UK yesterday’s Googles analytic reports where rubbish here.. just checked 4 sites all of them wrong

DaveN

I have been seeing this on and off all day today, if you refresh you get the ad delivered correctly, but how many people are going to refresh to get you compelling sales lines ??

DaveN

seems that this post is getting some people looking for credit cards so try knowyoumoney
Ok, First off the Natwest Bank is my company’s choice for Business Banking, and secondly who the hell is doing their PPC

Natwest Bank in Google
Natwest Bank in Yahoo
Natwest Bank in Live.com

@TOR at Adcenter this is what I was talking about at adchamps,

Natwest bank Loans - www.FastLoan24.com

Bad credit ok. Get an unbeatable 4.7%. Homeowners only.

That’s just bad and plain wrong, but the Google and Yahoo are just as bad with Trademarks on broad match.

DaveN

Update: this is a post to show how bad google broad matches adwords, we discussed this on webmasterradio

yes this surprised me a little I know that most people including Google know that Pron = Porn

I mean Look at the serps, they have it has a synonym search pron get porn in bold..

well search for it

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