I'm at the last gate of being utterly rich but I MUST get my hits for only 1 to 3p.

I have gathered keywords which are shown as "0.04" for positions "1-3".

I started at 1p bids but in the end have raised it to 3p (I only want content hits).

I am trying to gather thousands of the stated keywords - so far just a few 100 and only just switched to 3p bid late on friday night, so not ideal for uk consumers of fmcgs.

I did similar keyword method before with business services, but at higher bids, which makes sense for business services though.

Does anyone think that I can definitely get my hits for 1 to 3p for basically ordinary 30 to 40 pound consumer items in one or two very broad very mainstream fields? And is this method I'm using going to work? It seemed to have no limit for the business I did it for, and they were only held back by impracticality of expansion.

ps I've decided against all foreign travel since I'm a lino salesman at heart... I'm moving to a luxury flat in canary wharf at about 25% the going rate for such places in my current neighbourhood. If you're rich, why spend it?

I am bidding at 4p now - I think I should still come out with above 100% ROI, I'll see. I think that the 4p bids are more likely to get me impressions - now when I use the keyword tool there's TONNES more words which are shown as 4p for the top 1-3 places, which means I've probably found to present bottom edge of bids within google, eh? Still, by 6pm today hopefully I'll know for sure (and then after that, as we all know, they'll go offline for 4 yours to polish their cats and eat burritos)

have you broken these down into small campaigns? So that you have a single keyword phrase (slight variations), 2-3 ads and a landing page ALL containing the keyword phrase? Google will then reward you, charge you less and place you higher.

Originally Posted by witnesstheday

I am trying to gather thousands of the stated keywords

If the page linked to from the ad box is irrelevant to the keyword the quality score will be low. If you quality score falls too low you will be slapped and forced to pay more for your keywords.

There was a very lucrative system of taking cheap clicks from google and filtering it thorugh into overtures content scheme that was all the rage a few years ago. It spammed out googles results so they introduced the google slap. If that sounds like a good idea don't even bother, Yaho SEM (the new overture) discontinue their content network at the end of the month (probably because it is a badly performing spam whore).