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Well it’s been a while since a post has been made on here, so nonetheless it is time to wrap up my short experience with Google AdWords. It was a great couple of weeks, but all of the impressions just didn’t convert at all. This may have been attributed to the keywords I selected, maybe it was the time of year, or maybe it was some other unknown force that pushed potential customers away? My short experimentation with AdWords leaves me with a question.

First, how much is to much? It is a simple question, but when advertising it turns into a very complex problem. You want your ad to show up as much as possible, and the idea of competing with larger companies is great; but you must have the budget to do so. In trying to compete with others who were advertising on some of the same keywords we were after, our small budget quickly ran out in less than 2 weeks.

The turnover on AdWords, at least in my experience, is very minimal as well. In looking at the dispersion of impressions across the keywords, most of the impressions were served on the AdSense network, which yielded absolutely no hits let alone conversions. The remaining impressions were scattered across our selected keywords, any yielded some clicks but only a handful of conversions (a successful conversion was recorded whenever someone contacted us through the website). In my short experiment with AdWords, I find advertising on the AdSense network worthless, at least if you are offering a competitive service such as web design, the AdSense network just throws your ad onto anyone’s website that has content Google find to match what you’re wanting. With such little control, you’re just wasting time and money displaying ads on sites you don’t even know about.

So, to conclude my AdWords experiment, I must say I was let down by Google’s program. That isn’t to say it may not benefit a site that is selling goods, or targets a specific audience that isn’t currently being served, but if you wish to be found in a market that is already big then AdWords, in my opinion, is not worth it. I get the same exposure through a simple FREE Google search than I was getting through my AdWords campaign.

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The best advise for a small-business should come from a fellow small-business, so why should advise on your website or Internet advertising campaign be any different? Recently, we decided to try out Google AdWords for ourselves to see just what all the hype and excitement was all about; we think it would be beneficial information for any other small-business looking to advertise their website on the Internet.

We officially launched our AdWords Campaign only a couple of days ago on Friday. Initially our ad was to specific, there weren’t enough broad keywords; so after adding some keywords and adjusting our maximum cost per click, we were able to launch the campaign on a much more solid ground. Since Monday, we have received over 1500 impressions. Granted impressions aren’t clicks, and without clicks that doesn’t amount to any more traffic than we had before; but the impressions alone are far more exposure than we got with relying on search engines alone. Exposure like this is great for a small-business that can’t compete with the hundreds of huge websites that hog up the results of popular keywords.

Although it is early in the campaign, it is hard to make a definitive decision on whether AdWords is for us or not; but so far the exposure is great and Google’s interface is simple to use and manage several ads, keywords, and more information all from one website. Once our campaign is able to run longer, look for more articles on AdWords and our success (or possible failure) with this program.

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As it may be obvious, we just finished the redesign and restructuring of Fingertech. To promote our services, obviously being the Internet-based business we are, we are relying heavily on the Internet and specifically search engines like Google. After about a week of waiting to be reindexed, our site has yet to be recrawled or reindexed. Of course, this presents a problem, as they have the old version of our site cached, which doesn’t have nearly the content of our new site.

So, to try to overcome the monster known as Google, we have subscribed to a number of Google services if it wasn’t apparent from viewing our homepage. One of their services, Google Sitemaps, is supposed to be designed to allow easier submission of your website to their Bot. Another feature within the Sitemaps program, is the ability to remove your website, specific urls, the site in the cache, etc from their index. Being as our site has been completely redesigned, we thought it would be beneficial to request that our website be removed from the cache so that old, expired content isn’t being directed towards potential visitors. However, after requesting that our site be removed, we were presented with a spectacular “DENIED” from Google to remove our highly outdated website from their cache.

So, I suppose the discussion on this post is whether Google necessarily uses any user, subscriber, visitor, customer, or any other person’s input in making their decisions whether to index a website or not.

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