eBay Claims Google Ads Don't Perform Well; Clearly eBay Needs New AdWords Specialists

Mar 14, 2013 - 8:11 am 12 by
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ebay googleBBC reports that eBay is questioning the real ROI and benefit of them spending millions of dollars with Google through their AdWords program.

eBay released a report claiming that paying for Google AdWords has little effect on sales. The Guardian has a copy of the 25-page PDF report.

"[In the absence of paid search links] consumers simply substitute to organic search links [the results Google's search algorithm brings back without companies having to pay]," said the report.

"This implies that brand keyword advertising has neither persuasive nor informative value to well-known corporations."

Um, well, have you ever seen some of eBay's search ads? Not the best looking, most convincing and highly crafted ads you've seen. Both on the ad copy side and on the keyword targeting side.

netmeg in WebmasteWorld isn't surprised, she said:

Of course, ebay's ads were beyond pathetic, but that couldn't have had anything to do with it... oh no.

How much does eBay spend with Google? Well, we try to answer that over here.

Update, Larry also wrote a blog post on this.

Forum discussion at WebmasteWorld.

 

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