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Open in hackernews

Why is Google charging me $5-10 per click for my own brand name searches

19•hypeaccount•4mo ago
It seems Google has made it extremely difficult for small businesses to rank. The only way is to pay for Google Ads to rank for your brand name search terms for which Google is milking the hell out.

Despite whatever I do the website wouldn't rank.

I feel like Google has some sort of big brand whitelist and systemically discriminates against small brands.

Comments

ocdtrekkie•4mo ago
Heh, this is one of the dark secrets of how they make their money: Even when people already know they are looking for you, you have to pay to "advertise" to them.
aurizon•4mo ago
Google do evil?
bko•4mo ago
Why can’t you rank? I had no trouble getting ranked if I did the search console stuff and I had a unique name (which I checked before picking a name). Or do you just mean that your organic result is below the paid results?

What’s more likely, someone searching for your small business and some other cash rich business buying the ad space and stealing your customer.

Or a small business buying the keyword for a large competitor and stealing their business?

As a small business,I would prefer the world in which I can bid on my larger competitors key words than not be allowed. How many small web apps are basically wrappers with a better UX on top of standard AWS services?

hypeaccount•4mo ago
All of the top 10 Google search results are third-party articles that link to my website. However, my actual website doesn’t even appear in the top 40 results.

As a result, I’m losing sales — people keep telling me they can’t find my site directly. The only current solution seems to be paying Google $5–$10 per click to show up in search.

rtpg•4mo ago
Is there maybe something more banal here? Like the google robot looking at your website and not seeing content so assuming it's not ranked?

I would scour the Google Search Console to see if there's just something off about your pages. Totally could not be this, but it could be!

Seems surprising if you have a bunch of third-party links that you wouldn't rank higher.

reilly3000•4mo ago
Try working on your quality score, and definitely add negative keywords for anything that might be confused with your brand name. Keep your brand keyword ad groups separate from any other keywords, and break out by match type. Brand keywords should be your cheapest traffic. Get professional help if you can.
sparrish•4mo ago
Because your competitors are paying up to $5-10 per click for your brand name.
NaOH•4mo ago
Previously:

Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201637 - 19 days ago (25 comments)

hypeaccount•4mo ago
Previously people suggested to use Google Ads to counter it.

But it's extremely expensive. I am paying sometimes $20-40 per click. Just to sell a $5 product.

It's insane.

gretch•4mo ago
Just don’t pay for it.

What you said implies your competitors pay the same $20 per click to sell a $5 commodity. You win

daft_pink•4mo ago
Isn’t it a reverse auction, so presumably your competitors would have a lower cost per click if they had a higher click through rate?
abxyz•4mo ago
You’ve been repeatedly asked to provide your website but you have not. There is almost certainly a problem with your website, whether it’s a banned domain or robots.txt misconfiguration or something more obscure. You need to either share your website so people here can investigate for you, or hire someone privately to investigate. There’s no other advice anyone can give.
lefstathiou•4mo ago
I bought a domain that was previously used for hentai in the 90s and 00s. It was blacklisted from search because Symantec site review and other similar site review services marked it as adult content. I emailed each of them directly and within 48-72 hours, all had manually changed it. This is the only path that I know of.
kentich•4mo ago
I've always felt like Google Ads is unclear about how they set their CPCs. Why not to clearly show who pays what in a clear transparent way? Do they have something to hide?