Posts Tagged ‘Quality Score’

The BlackHatters have had confirmation from Google on the Quality Score glitches that advertisers saw both in October and then again in November of 2010 as reported in our post Google Quality Score Issue Today!!! Google states… – Known Technical Issue – Our engineers identified an issue that resulted in some advertisers seeing sudden Quality Score [...]

Google Quality Score Assessment Calculator

Posted: 27th October 2010 by blackhat in Google Innovations
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Nice little tool that we were sent the other day (thanks to our Greek BlackHatter) for checking Quality Score in your Google accounts. Originally developed by Wordstream we found this to be quite a handy little tool for checking the QS on your keywords, so whilst not being strictly Black Hat PPC, we thought we’d [...]

The dreaded Google Slap…every affiliates worse knightmare! Where Google determines that your campaign is in violation of its guidelines for some reason and then lowers all your keyword Quality Score to 1/10…pretty much putting your PPC campaign in the dustbin. Well if you do get Google slapped and manage to get the decision reversed by [...]

As we reported in our earlier article Google Sitelinks Update – Crazy Day for PPC ads! Google have rolled out sitelinks on Generic keywords. This change in Google’s policy can now allow those astute PPC analysts out there to work out what competitors Quality Score is on certain keywords. The Blackhatters have worked out that for [...]

Struggling with your Quality Score in Google? Here is a really simple trick that helps in most cases for 2 word keywords to improve Quality Score. If you have a keyword such as ‘black hat’ and have a QS of 4/10, try putting a ‘.’ between the two keywords as it resets the QS of [...]