Steve Janke provides the instructions;
Now look at the search results page served up when I type “stephane dion”:
stephane-dion-search
Now look to the right. The top bid for the search term “stephane dion” is JackLayton.ca, which redirects to the main NDP website.
Very clever. Not only is the NDP ignoring Stephane Dion and the Liberals on the campaign trail, the NDP is outbidding the Liberals on keyword search bids, bringing people looking for information on “stephane dion” to their website.
Look, this won’t win the election. But owning your own search terms is considered pretty important in this field. Letting your competitors grab traffic that was heading for your site based on a search of your own product’s name is the sort of thing that makes people in this business snicker.
Update: And those rotten Dippers are grabbing Conservative traffic too! Type in “stephen harper” and there is JackLayton.ca in the sponsored links. Clever little Dippers.
Well, yes and no. Robert Jago, via email;
I checked my adwords account, those keywords have a minimum bid of $12.00. So every time you click on an NDP ad, Google bills the dippers $10.
It’s classic NDP level stupid.
Calling the SDA Nation – got an hour to kill? With just a few dozen click$ of your mouse, you can help make Jack’s ad go horribly wrong!
Update – SDA today, MSM tomorrow. SDA gets results!
I checked out the cost of sponsored ads on google. This $6 a click is not for real. We are being duped,unless the dippers signed up for the stupidest contract in google history,this is a hoax. RUN AWAY. Though,I have been wrong before.
Just in case it is as it appears. I am going to laugh and click it 15-20 times anyways.
Searching for “Harper” does the same thing to me: a Jack Layton sponsored link.
What happened to `seperatiste`? Feeling a little frustrated? A little like Obamessiah worshippers and other failed, frustrated leftists?
Actually if you people click multiple times within a short time frame, it is very likely that your clicks will be flagged as spam clicking. At best it will be charged 1 time, at worst none.
Google has algorithm to prevent that kind of fraud.
Otherwise it would be too easy for competition to ruin the adsense money of other people.
doug: shut up
I just gave a 20 click $Bill to the socialist hordes bank account.
I feel good now.
I have been saying for a couple of elections now that the NDP – and more importantly Jacko – if they just would run a sensible campaign, a hole would open in the floor and the Liberal party would disappear.
Now it looks like they are getting the message (has Harper been coaching Jack? – they certainly have had lots of private meetings over the past couple of years) and like I said on Rutherford last week – the NDP is the party to watch in this election. Not that they will win large numbers of new seats, but that they will split the vote in dozens of key ridings in Que, Ont and BC enabling the CP to go up the middle and win dozens of new seats and thus a majority mandate.
2. Frustration on the part of our token quebecois poster is the next to last stage of emotions before he becomes resigned to the fact that the bosom of Canada is the best place for his nation to reside.
I was going to do all kinds of clicks but Obama bin Layton’s lofty gaze caused me to loose my lunch.
Wallyj is probably wrong,so lets all prove that we are idiots and click away.Has anyone ever heard the expresion ‘if it sounds too good to be true ,it probably isn’t’. I have.
The problem with the NDP is that their backrooms are filled with lunatic extremists who would wreck the country if they got the chance. It would be political correctness 24/7 for four years. All the conservatives would be in jail on trumped up charges through the human rights commissions. Bet on it. That’s what we would risk if the Liberal party disappeared.
10 clicks.
100 bucks.
Its like VLTs for Conservatives sponsored by Baked Lays: Betcha can’t click just one.
Thanks Jack Layton — its like Gary Doer’s Crocus Fund but without the stupid tax credit.
I tried Gilles Duceppe and the NDP ad came up. This is just too much fun.
1talkinghead:”I am going to laugh and click it 15-20 times anyways.” — Well, maybe I am a sap, but I think that’s mean. Personally I wish Jack well. As I see it, the more NDPers the fewer Liberals. And at least we know what the NDP stands for.
“Personally I wish Jack well.”
So do I. The Taliban just endorsed him I heard on the CBC today.
Mullah Jack. Time for some more clickety click.
You would think that a guy pulling for the 10 buck an hour crowd would be a little bit more sensitive on how he spent other people’s money. You would also think that a guy that has been around the political scene for so long would be aware of people taking advantage of his short sighted sleeves (oops) I mean decisions, and not put himself in this type of situation.
Please click responsibly.
Visit http://blackrod.blogspot.com/ for a glimpse of NDP brilliance. look for “The Wuskwatim power project”. The government there has gone off it’s rocker but good.
I just checked this in my Google Adwords account and see $0.05 as the minimum bid. Using their Traffic Estimator tool shows the average CPC is $0.22.
The Google Adwords Minimum bid for Stephen Harper is $0.50 and average CPC is $1.09. Heh
I did a little keywords research on the NDP.ca web site. Jack and his site scores pretty high on keys words ‘weak leader’. See screenshot of keywords over at http://www.nodemocraticprocess.com
A click a day and they’ll have to pay….With your traffic Kate.
I would be surprised if the keyword is $10.00 CPC. But even at .50 every little click hurts.
I just tagged the link and reset my browser 100 times. At $6 bucks a crack….do the math people.
If we all do this every day until the election. So much for the $1.75/ vote and the union unaccountable money bags.
Layton and his horde has committed to a redirect payment of $6 / hit with a Google search of the following names: Conservative Party, Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion, Liberal Party, Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Quebecois, Elizabeth May, and the Green Party.
So get on your key boards and give him his monies worth over and over and over and over and over and over….you get the picture. Let’s give the pro capitalist his full value
Truly it was fun 🙂
nv53. There are two certainties when election ends. There will a Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. Mr Layton is applying for the former while coveting the latter.
There’s no way NDP will gain power in the way you fear (well, I don’t think there’s a realistic chance). If you want a real ideological headache, just consider a Liberal NDP coalition or minority. Picture an explosion in government like we haven’t seen since Trudeau era. Well, that’s what happened last time these two parties got together.
But, if Layton wants opposition role, he will have to moderate his party’s policies. He doesn’t appear to have done that in this election. I thought he made a good start when he became leader, but he’s been treading water ever since.
If he continues to dance around the idea he wants Dion’s job, he will continue in third party status. Worse still, by ignoring Dion with all guns aimed at Harper (you know the guy who quit his job), he leaves the ground open for the Liberal worker to snipe away his moderate vote.
If Layton pulls off opposition, the way he is going now, it will be an accident.
LSI friends.
Google won’t charge them the full $10 per click. It is based on the maximum bid of the next bidder in the #2 spot. Smart pricing. If they bid $5.00 then the NDP will probably get charged $5.05 per click.
But I don’t see another bidder so they are probably getting charged $0.05.
Top that off with the fact that they can choose geography, time of day and other factors in the pricing and we’ll never know what they really pay. But for a term with no other bidders it won’t be $10 per click thanks to Google smart pricing.
Now that’s the old “in-‘n’-out”.
Altruistic Is see your point but what if it happens to be “That time of Day” when there are three to five bidders as what happened with me.
I get goose bumps just thinking about it 🙂
All the same, it’s worth the time to ensure Taliban Jack gets his monies worth.
Stop wasting your time. Adwords can cost as little as one cent per click. Also, there is no cost when it is displayed but not clicked.
here for more: http://tinyurl.com/5kwq68
Then you get to the NDP page itself, and there’s Jack “My Porn Name Was Moustache Phil” Layton saying something about doing it on the kitchen table. Or maybe I just need more coffee…
vonrock: “You would think that a guy pulling for the 10 buck an hour crowd would be a little bit more sensitive on how he spent other people’s money.”
Yeah, you’d think that, but this guy is Taliban Jack Laydown. He’s never comfortable when he’s NOT spending other people’s money. That’s the only money he and Olivia spend.
That’s why it’s a good thing they never win more than 19% of the vote-and even that’s way too high for Canadians’ pocketbooks. Most of us have to pay our own way, all the time.
Bart: Thanks for the link, I knew the cost couldn’t be very high. Then again, I do get a kick out of it first thing in the morning.
BTW – this also happens when searching for Elizabeth May as well as Duceppe, Dion et al. Funny thing, I first heard about this the other morning on CBC radio in Toronto.
I think it’s already been mentioned by other people posting, but those prices are per 1000 clicks. So it works out to about 0.012 cents per click if it’s 12$. The minimum mid is 10$, so 0.01 cents, so 12$ is pretty close to the minimum threshold for advertising with google. Ultimately, that works out to be a pretty cheap deal for the NDP to advertise with the most popular search engine in the world.
I just charged the NDP 25 clicks and it felt great.
Proof that the NDP intend to waste your money.
No Ace, it’s not. If you figure they’ll get 1,000,000 clicks because of this, you’ll see that they’re spending only 12,000$ to gain the attention of 1 million web users, and on top of that, they’re pretty much paying the minimum that Google allows in the first place, so they’re getting a pretty good deal in my opinion.
It’s just a shame that this SDA blog post is so unclear regarding how Google’s advertisement charges work.
Well, I just googled up Stephan Dion, and no NDP ad. Bummer. Maybe the meter was ticking faster than Jack liked? So I googled up Stephen Harper, and there’s -no- ads on that one now. None.
Interesting.