Comments on: What Do You Want to Know About Google Adwords?

By: Paul Demers

Paul Demers — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:08:57 +0000

I restrict my key word serches to my home town area, but this is State College PA… is this a problem , as state and college can confuse serches.

By: mike mchugh

mike mchugh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:01:55 +0000

I tried to set up a number of links to my site to improve traffic. Number of clicks went to practically nothing. How much should be invested monthly to get at least a 3 to 1 return on investment?

By: Dan Foxx

Dan Foxx — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:18:19 +0000

One of the first things beginning with ad words everyone should know is customizing service area. Doing cleaning searches by zip code in PA, brings up sponsored links of companies across the county. As a cleaner, I like checking to see what they are doing in their area. Advertising outside their service area cannot do well for ROI.

Reading the comments and questions. One question
that comes to mind it; How many Quality Carpet Cleaners will be put out of business due to Google?

Suggest a blog going over Cost of Google vs. actual or percieved return. The return is actual or perceived money ($) brought in from this ad.
I see some outlandish costs, with little return suggested if any at all. Clicks on home page along suggests little if any return.

By: Tim Newell

Tim Newell — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:16:23 +0000

Hey John, I’ve done fairly well with setting up my website and tweaking keywords for better placement.

I just started fooling around with Google Adwords (after your webinar on Procleaners network)

I’m in Columbus Ohio, actually way out on the East Side… and I’d rather not clean on the far side of Columbus, due to traffic, time, etc…. So we have a handfull of smaller communities all around. I know with adwords you can select the metro areas. Have you had any luck focusing on the smaller communities? Or are you better of just advertising Carpet Cleaning Columbus Ohio?

In 1 week, I have had about 600+ impressoins, but no click… Trying to use catchy headlines, but no bites yet.

I do get a slow trickle of calls from the internet and they are QUALITY customers, very few price shoppers… but it just seems slow in my area.

It seems like some guys in certain locations of the country are doing very well with the internet, have you gotten word that some areas are still slow to warming up to the net ?

Thanks for your input! and Thanks for the Great material on your website.

Tim
Continental Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning

By: Steve Tringas

Steve Tringas — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:06:37 +0000

I’ve tried Adwords and had a little luck. But then my competition started using it and made my cost per click go to $4. How can I pay a lower amount?

By: Rick Nelson

Rick Nelson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:24:10 +0000

whats the difference or more profitable Google
add words or At&t’s so many clicks per month example 30 clicks you pay $90.00 a month a 1
year agreement your guaranteed 360 clicks?

By: az carpet cleaners

az carpet cleaners — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:16:29 +0000

I have tried Google adwords and had little success. I am sure there is a rhyme and reason to do it successfully.

By: Greg Lucas

Greg Lucas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:56:26 +0000

Another question I have John is about using negative keywords, have you found it helpful?, does it improve your score?.

By: James Richardson

James Richardson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:49 +0000

Ok, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the cheapest key word, or phrase, and tell me what you think. If the keywords carpet cleaning and carpet cleaners are the highest CPC, then if I do broad, exact phrase, and exact match with cc + my city, then google would charge me for that instead of the key word “carpet cleaning” or carpet cleaners alone.

CC + my city is definitely the cheapest way to go because I won’t be competing against everybody else in the country. I’ll just be competing against those in my area.

“Carpet cleaners” and “carpet cleaning” are the most expensive but if I add the city to it, which you have to do anyways, then the cost is dramatically reduced!!!

So, if this is correct, then I should be able to get the same number of impressions if I remove CC by itself?

Does this make sense?

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:32:24 +0000

I get around 60-80 unique visits per week. Most jsut go to the home page. With pay per click I am getting 2-3 clicks per day with the average cpc $3.50ish. My issue is getting those lookers to become callers. How do we do that?

thanks,

Glen