Typo keywords with adwords

[Dazza30]

Ive just started messing around with typo keywords.

Has anyone any experience of using these with google adwords. If so what are your conclusions?

[findlite]

I dont use adwords but I do target typo keywords in the serps with Google. They are a great way to obtain easy traffic and there is money to be made off the back of them.......

[Dazza30]

What id like to know is, does googles quality score system prevent or make the use of typo's irelevent?

[pete_m]

Typos can work very well, especially when you're using a typo of a non-dictionary word.

[grobinso]

Originally Posted by Dazza30 What id like to know is, does googles quality score system prevent or make the use of typo's irelevent?

Quality Score !, its a joke

Just got Google Slapped yesterday, 182 keywords wiped out including my main bread earners. The ones they left me with were mainly TYPO errors, you wouldnt find them anywhere in my ads or on my pages so what does that say about 'Quality Score'

Interestingly out of 5 Ad groups in the campaign, only 1 was active at the time, however as i slowly activated more groups they immediately (within a couple of minutes) miraculously changed from having 'Excellent' Qualiy Scores to 'Poor' and were hit with £5 minimum bids.

Now these Ad Groups of course promote different products to each other and therefore have different keywords so this proves to me that its a waste of time trying to improve your Ad's or your Pages as Google have obviously made a blanket decision about the site and whatever campaign you set up will be hit with rediculous minimum bids.

I purchased the domain as a 'throwaway' domain' and only intended it be used as a landing page for a short lived campaign so i'm not too upset about this (although it hurts not to feel loved by Google :-) so before i ditch it i've just put up new ad group and stuck some quality keywords in there, lets see how long its active before it gets slapped.

Also, is it just coincidence the slap came the same day i got a response back from Adwords 'support' ( i use that term loosely) to a query of mine? i think not !

Graham


Sorry if this post is in in the wrong area but it is loosely connected to the original post

[Dazza30]

Originally Posted by grobinso Quality Score !, its a joke Just got Google Slapped yesterday, 182 keywords wiped out including my main bread earners. The ones they left me with were mainly TYPO errors, you wouldnt find them anywhere in my ads or on my pages so what does that say about 'Quality Score'

I assumed that google would dissalow the use of typo's due to quality score.

[Marcus-Hill]

It is a good technique that I doubt alot of SEO use.
Give it a go on a few of your pages and test them

[tbp]

I assumed that google would dissalow the use of typo's due to quality score.

This was one of the stupidest things about the Google slap!

I had 5 keywords remaining out of 477... and all of these were for typo's that weren't found anyware on the landing page.

Totally goes against their so called "Quality Score"

[Dazza30]

Originally Posted by tbp This was one of the stupidest things about the Google slap! I had 5 keywords remaining out of 477... and all of these were for typo's that weren't found anyware on the landing page. Totally goes against their so called "Quality Score"

Hi tbp

So your relevent keywords where dissallowed and the typo's which arent on your landing page or your adds where allowed.

Weird!

[tbp]

So your relevent keywords where dissallowed and the typo's which arent on your landing page or your adds where allowed.

Yes, exactly that.

Thats why i`m so pissed off about the whole thing. If there was some logic there and you could see why they were doing it, even if I still lost my campaign I wouldn't of minded too much.

If there was logic behind it and a clear set of guidelines, I could of just updated my site, had my campaign restarted and everyones happy.

When none of it makes sense, and the end result is a much worse experience for surfers its just plain stupid.

[Dazza30]

I take it you sent google a nice email ?

[tbp]

I take it you sent google a nice email ?

LOL, well I did send Google an email, but bit my tongue and was polite, and asked what the problems were with the site, and explained if they could let me know what needed to be done to get the site up to their standard I would it.

However, all I got was a canned response, referring me to the FAQ's which are no help whatsover. It said to reply to the email if it hadn't answered my questions, so I did, but got no response.

I have to say their customer service is terrible. I got a very snotty email a couple of months ago asking why I had dared to do a chargeback on credit card for an adwords bill. It wasn't business like at all, and had a really nasty tone. The email wasn't meant for me however, when I read it again I found it was for a totally different adwords account, nothing to do with mine. I sent back and email explaining it had nothing to do with mine, and asking for an apology, but again got no reply.

I`ve always had a lot of respect for Google, but this is rapidly diminishing.

It seems to be the same with all big companies, they get to a certain size and then don't give a toss about anyone, and their customer service becomes none existant. They think that they rule the world and are too big too be toppled, but this isn't the case, you only have to piss off enough p