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Spend is £5k pm , I guess that's low , will have a look at those tools thanks

Justin ,

We just had one done by our last ppc company who unfortunately I think have bigger fish to fry than us.

the main page gets upto 20% conversion from ppc. on a good day and 10% on a bad day.

Bruce

I wish I had the time to sit down and work out what the bloody hell is going on with adwords.
I shudda kept my phone off that day and just gone with the flow

thank

Thanks Cole

Yes our industry is a hard one, we just feel like google sent us a curveball and since then our account has gone downhill.
Our conversion rate has been 20% , so quite good we feel. Although on some days is drops .

It is a difficult one, and we are prepared to pay for someone to keep on top of this.
I don't mind a company saying NO , that's unreasonable, but spending months to prove this is soul destroying.

ps. Bruce, I asked a simple question , we are not cheapskates , just want a company that can deliver what they say for a fair price and not rip people off , but in the end deliver !!

I have a story , 18 months ago we had our own PPC adwords account, we had been running at £3.20 CPA for quite some time and we were very happy. Sometimes CPA would go up , sometimes down, but not my very much.

One unfortunate day google rang, and told us , that our CPA should ne £2.50 and that we needed expert advice that they couldn't actually give us, we needed an expert.

To cut a long story short and after 5 very expert companies have messed with our account, we had varying results. One company left us with 2 leads per day at £10 a lead !!!! , one did better than that and setup a £3k adwords account using their expert advice, blew it all and said "times are tough" sorry !!!

The last company was actually the best, great guy , but I think we are two small for him, we have varying results, one day we get 30 leads, the next we get 10 , one day its £3.50 CPA , next its £7.00 . But on the whole very happy with his initial work

We just want a company that doesn't Lie to us , tells us straight , and can use their expertise to get us a CPA of £3.50 and help us get upto 50 leads a day, if not more.

Thanks

Hope that makes sense

Nick
systems direct ltd

Thanks for your answer , but me deciding and deciding wrong costs me money at the end of the day. Hence why I'm asking

yes , its ended up one big mash up , needs an overhaul but so scared of losing rankings and money we are in a mess

i would be willing to pay for some help , but we have had some really bad experiences.

one company took our adwords account and ruined it , we were getting 40 apps a day and they managed to being it down to three , then blamed the world and its daughters .

we have employed an seo company who in three weeks has emailed us once ??

we employed an affiliate company , world leader who charged us a fortune to get 20 enquires a month and they blamed the world too.

Google changes have messed our home page , we don't know why as there have been so many changes to google we have lost the will to live.

Want to cry really

Ok the reason i wrote this is because I'm getting mixed messages and still as above , people contradict each other.

If we take a vanilla site and pack it full of 1000 articles and blogs and its about "pickled eggs" , i understand google will index this, but will it give my site any importance with zero back links ??? and therefore will my content be sat there getting no visits ?

Great tip about the newsletters , will be using that from now on, normally we send a full article to our 40k news readers.
however only 5% open the email which is heart breaking

Thank you that's very informative, do we need to link in content creation with link building .

or is link building dead ?

Thanks for for spending the time

I realise there is a wealth of information out there regarding content etc. But Im getting slightly confused about what to do with my articles for my site.

Each week we have 3 articles written, 2 x 300 word articles and 1 x newsletter

The question is what the heck do i do with these I apologies but I'm so confused.

Do I publish them to my site?
Get them on a blog?
Publish them on a forum

How many times do i get them published and whats the best way, and after all this , is this the right thing that Iam doing, and what else can i do to

a) attract back links with this content
b) get it published
c) get google to index this and benefit from the content

sorry if this has been repeated , but different people/companies offering different advice.

Thanks

Thanks Dan, worked out it was google account login which showed the funny listing

think i need someone to look at my links, as we always ranked well and had high listings, recently our pages have dropped off and being beaten by sites which dont have many inbounds and a less PR but ranking higher

thanks for the comments though and spending the time to reply

Our website is over 10 years old and has been very successful with google. We rank highly for our keywords, but recently a strange thing has happend. Google has indexed a video from our front page (which no longer exists) and shows this listing instead of the sub pages. This means the listing is irrelevant to the search term.

Term is "Junior Cricket Bats"
https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_en-GBGB377GB377&q=junior+cricket+bats

should some up with this page
http://www.cricketsupplies.com/junior-cricket-bats.asp

but shows the root domain
http://www.cricketsupplies.com/ with this video link which does not exist

We should be ranking really well , and were , but now not so good , even though SEOmoz loves our pages

if anybody can see anything obvious i would be thanksful.

regards