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Seems like many advertisers were hit with a major spike in minimum bids due to the AdWords landing page quality score update. This seems to have happened last night.
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from Feydakin 1312 Days ago #
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We actually just cancelled an adwords campaign where we ranked #1 in natural search for the phrase that they said our quality score wasn’t high enough.. MAkes no sense but it’s saving me money now..

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from daveforeman 1311 Days ago #
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Great job Google and thanks for the heads up.  This ranks up there with the one week gap in analytics data that they first denied was happening then admitted happened about a week later.  AdWords has paying customers who might like to know that thier business was about to be disrupted.   Wish that I could could change my billing rates over night and with no notice and no explaination -- isn’t this what a monopoly does? I keep forgetting that Google is not a monopoly... or maybe I missed that news too. 

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from seobro 1310 Days ago #
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I remember that AT&T would constantly change my 800 number totally disrupting my business. Google is hurting their customers. Last time I checked over 90% of their income comes from Adwords.This is not Microsoft that has the cash cow of OS to fall back on. When advertising rates drop because people get tired of the game their stock will drop like a rock. In a recession many business firms will fail, those that survive will look to SEO, not PPC.

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