[st3ve445678]

My experience is similar. I tried on and off for several years to get some traction on adwords to suppliment my organic. I learned everything I could, tweaked campaigns over time. Nothing.

I then hired a reputable certified adwords company. Again, nothing. Literally almost zero conversions over a good period of time. I really wanted it to work, but had to stop the losses after many months of trying.

It could just be my industry though, I know some people do make it work for their business. So I guess try it, but watch for results and don't fool yourself for too long if nothing is working.

[com2kid]

> My experience is similar. I tried on and off for several years to get some traction on adwords to suppliment my organic. I learned everything I could, tweaked campaigns over time. Nothing.

When I was running my hyper-local startup, my best conversion rate was through reddit ads on the city subreddits.

Super targeted Facebook ads also worked.

I didn't even try adwords, wrong ad product for the job.

IIRC email sign ups were costing me like ~20-25 cents each. Reddit ads were obscenely effective.