Did you get the dreaded Google Adwords slap last week? I did.

By slap I’m referring to having a good percentage of your Adwords keywords going inactive unless their minimum bids are raised from let’s say around .25 to well over $1 and sometimes even as high as $10, which is what i got whacked with. If you are trying to get low-cost clicks, good luck. If you are low margin, again, good luck. Basically, if you get slapped, good luck!

This isn’t the first time Google has hit me. They did it back in March, and I guess they …

Thanks Google, thanks for March Madness. For those of you not hit, or slapped, by the mighty G this month with elevated, outrageous $10+ minimum bids for your precious keywords, you can stop reading. If you know what I’m talking about, good luck.

Every so often Google updates their Adwords quality score algorithm and in doing so crushes the campaigns of many an affiliate marketer by finding fault in their method, and forcing them to pay 10 to 20 times their current bid to remain active.

Unfortunately, looks like The G ran another such update last week wiping out a few …