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Originally Posted by Redfly  Depends on the redirect Gav. Is it a 302? |
Yes its a 302.
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Originally Posted by Redfly Also, are the terms you're bidding on TM terms that the site owner does not own? |
We own the terms, although they are not all directly trademarked, we have taken steps to register them as trademarks to prevent competitors bidding on the terms, however given the recent changes that seems futile now.
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Originally Posted by Redfly I have noticed that TM's cause a lot of problems. While it's possible to bid on them, Google keeps the TM owners happy by pricing competitors out and still remaining "open and fair" by letting competitors theoretically use them.
And I wouldn't consider 30 cents that bad in most markets. |
Yeah only a few are €0.30 cent, but most are in the ridiculous €4 mark. It shouldn't cost someone that much to bid on a domain name related term that is our domain name.
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Originally Posted by Redfly Finally, have you checked the loading page time factor in the QS diagnostic section? It's possible that the AdWords bot is experiencing delays going through your redirect and assigning a poor QS based on that. |
We recently revamped the website and it uses lots of compressed CSS and load times are way faster than before. Definately less than 10 seconds for most pages.
We do not even have a robots.txt file, so no bots should be blocked and as far as my IT manager is aware we are not actively blocking any bots from accessing the sites.