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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Quality Score’
Google confirms Quality Score glitch
Posted: 2nd December 2010 by blackhat in Black Hat PPC, Google AdWordsTags: Google AdWords, Quality Score
Google Quality Score Assessment Calculator
Posted: 27th October 2010 by blackhat in Google InnovationsTags: Quality Score
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 [...]
Why a dam good Google Slap can be a good thing!
Posted: 8th October 2010 by blackhat in Black Hat PPC, Google AdWordsTags: Affiliate PPC, Black Hat PPC, Google AdWords, Quality Score
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 [...]
How to Tell Competitors Quality Score from Sitelinks
Posted: 7th July 2010 by blackhat in Affiliate PPC, Google Quality ScoreTags: Google Site Links, Quality Score
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 [...]
Instantly Improve Google Quality Score on Two Word Keywords
Posted: 26th May 2010 by blackhat in Google Quality ScoreTags: Quality Score
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 [...]


