As some of you in the affiliate marketing world know, Google has decided recently to increase your minimum bid for keywords if they determine your site has a low quality score. Well, they finally got around to looking at my current ringtone landing page last night and jacked all of my keywords minimum bids up to $5.00 or $10.00 a click. So, since we will go broke quick paying 5 or 10 bucks per click we aren’t getting any Google traffic at the moment. The only Arbitrage traffic is coming from Adcenter and a sudden spike in clicks from Adbrite. I have changed the landing page for the Adbrite clicks to better get an idea what is happening there. I was sending the traffic straight to the Affiliate but now I am sending to one of my landing pages.
Tonight I will be working on adding some content to my ringtones landing page to try and improve my quality scores. My anger at Google was certainly tempered since I started adding Google Analytics to all my sites this week. I have been getting some very interesting data that way.
