Interesting email from Google Adwords:

You currently have 2 pending proposals for 2 client accounts. You can view a complete analysis for these accounts by clicking the ‘Want more clicks?’ links on your My Client Center page:

For example, according to our analysis, the following campaigns would benefit from budget adjustments:

Account: XXXXXXXXXX: 
Campaign: YYYYYYYYYY
This campaign met its daily budget of GBP £64.50 on 10 of the last 15 days. Increasing the budget to GBP £143.28 would allow the ads to show more often and get approximately 11% more clicks per month.

So let’s look at that advice from Google… Increase the spend by 122% in order to increase the clicks by 11%.

Am I missing something – or does Google think I am a complete plank?


Dixon Jones

An award-winning Search and Internet Marketer. Search Personality of the year Lifetime achievement award Outstanding technology individual of the year International public speaker for 20 years in the field of SEO and Internet Marketing, including: Pubcon; Search Engine Strategies (SMX); Brighton SEO; Ungagged; Search Leeds; State of Search; RIMC and many more.

4 Comments

SimonR · 23rd October 2008 at 7:35 am

Incredible, looks like Google will do anything to squeeze extra revenue out of advertisers, even when it is patently obvious it is not beneficial.

Dan · 7th November 2008 at 6:35 pm

The joys of e-CRM. Not the best way to convince businesses that they can deal with a search engine direct.

Sam Nichols · 23rd December 2008 at 8:32 pm

They “advice” me to increase my budget every time I login..thank God they allow us to dismiss that message

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