Yahoo Min Bids

[Jon12345]

What are the factors that go into how they set your Min Bid? How can you keep the mind bid low? Does the min bid change over time? If you lower your bid to below the min bid, is your advert ever likely to show?

Thanks,

Jon

[SteveL]

what is YSM min bids policy? can you shed some light for me?

not heard about it.

[mystickcal]

Yahoo min bids are simple....You ad must be related to your keywords and your landing pages must be related to your ads and you must keep a good CTR% (click though rate).

Do those things and you'll get low min bids.

[Jon12345]

Mystickcal, isn't what you described the quality score algo rather than min bids? I've read somewhere that min bids are nothing to do with CTR but rather the number of competitors bidding on that keyword. Can anyone shed any light on the validity of that claim?

[mystickcal]

Mystickcal, isn't what you described the quality score algo rather than min bids? I've read somewhere that min bids are nothing to do with CTR but rather the number of competitors bidding on that keyword. Can anyone shed any light on the validity of that claim?

No, that's not true...the bid is simply based on their quality score, suppose to be, I'll be the first to admit sometimes it a little (lot) whack, but it shouldn't have anything to do with the amount of competitors.

[Minisuit]

Hello Friend,

I have not understood your question completely, could you please elaborate with examples if possible?

Thanks,