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What's The Best Way To Tell If A Competitors Adwords Ad Is Making Money?

by Steven Wagenheim
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Real quick.

I use Spyfu for this. Is there something better?

What's the best system for determining if a competitor's ad is making money?

I don't want to assume that just because an ad is in the top position that
it's profitable.

So hit me with your best system.

Thanks.
#adwords #competitors #making #money
  • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
    Steven,

    Aren't you a member of the War Room?

    This was laid out in minute detail a few months ago there.

    http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...rofitable.html

    Give it a look. There's even a video!
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by Chris Hunter View Post

      Steven,

      Aren't you a member of the War Room?

      This was laid out in minute detail a few months ago there.

      http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...rofitable.html

      Give it a look. There's even a video!
      Chris, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

      Yes, I am a member and have even contributed to the War Room. I have
      just been so busy I haven't had time to go there in a while and there is
      so much there, who can go through it all anyway?

      Talk about the bargain of the century.
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      • Profile picture of the author tommyp
        Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

        Chris, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

        Yes, I am a member and have even contributed to the War Room. I have
        just been so busy I haven't had time to go there in a while and there is
        so much there, who can go through it all anyway?

        Talk about the bargain of the century.
        I thought you already knew that since you use SpyFu. The tool in that thread doesn't seem to be working anymore.

        It's still not the best way. Unless best means balance between "knowing" and spending as little as possible.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fabian Tan
    Steven,

    I'm not sure if this will help you but WinningAdwordAds.com and Compete.com have worked well for me.

    Fabian
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  • Profile picture of the author tommyp
    The Most Accurate Way

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    • Profile picture of the author mr_banks
      I can see how that could add up pretty quickly.
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      • Profile picture of the author tommyp
        Originally Posted by mr_banks View Post

        I can see how that could add up pretty quickly.
        Well, the question was what's the best way not what's the cheapest or free way. You'd spend money taking a chance on an original campaign, too so what's the big difference. You're gonna spend money and you may or may not make a profit either way and if you do make a profit what's the problem?
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Another way is to use Project 5 in Keyword Elite, punch in the keywords you want, and the site you want to analyze, let it run for about a week and it'll tell you if they dropped the keyword or kept it.
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    • Profile picture of the author entrepenerd
      Originally Posted by askloz View Post

      Another way is to use Project 5 in Keyword Elite, punch in the keywords you want, and the site you want to analyze, let it run for about a week and it'll tell you if they dropped the keyword or kept it.
      That's exactly what I was thinking Loz. The best way to tell if an ad is making money is to see how long it stays. If it's up for any reasonable length of time, you can pretty much bet that it's making money somehow.
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      • Profile picture of the author hommi_16
        Originally Posted by entrepenerd View Post

        That's exactly what I was thinking Loz. The best way to tell if an ad is making money is to see how long it stays. If it's up for any reasonable length of time, you can pretty much bet that it's making money somehow.
        I dunno

        You could also assume that the ad is getting a ton of impressions but no clicks. If this were the case, the publisher may leave the ad running as it's not costing them any money (but not making any either).
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      • Profile picture of the author tommyp
        Originally Posted by entrepenerd View Post

        That's exactly what I was thinking Loz. The best way to tell if an ad is making money is to see how long it stays. If it's up for any reasonable length of time, you can pretty much bet that it's making money somehow.
        Not true. It could be somebody who doesn't know what they're doing, it could be someone who does know what they are doing but is in research/data gathering phase or it could be just about anything. You could use it as an indicator but you aren't guaranteed anything.

        The only way to know for sure is to clone and watch like I said unless you can peek into someone's Adwords account and affiliate stats.
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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        and to speed things up, use ppc web spy

        Originally Posted by entrepenerd View Post

        That's exactly what I was thinking Loz. The best way to tell if an ad is making money is to see how long it stays. If it's up for any reasonable length of time, you can pretty much bet that it's making money somehow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Li Weng
    I was kinda expecting this post to be some tutorial, guess I was wrong...
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  • Profile picture of the author jen.bas
    I agree in using compete.com .. it will help a lot in monitoring your competitors keywords.. one thing for sure, if your competitor is using a certain keyword for a long time then it is where they are reaping profits from..
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  • Profile picture of the author danto2
    Hi:
    I tried getting on your free report list. but apparently it already had my danto2@juno.com e-mail on your list. I don't remember getting it. But it's possible.
    Can you send me another.
    Thanx.
    Robert Leichter
    By the way: Since I joined I've been following your information. You seem to be very well informed.
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  • Profile picture of the author naonline
    Affiliate Espionage is good one and it's cheap! (no, it's not the tool in my sig!)
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