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The top 50 most expensive AdWords

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This list mostly just makes me sad.

Assuming it is a proxy for demand, most of it is student loans, other consumer debt refinancing, or branded commercial Education(tm) which is unlikely to ever actually recover cost for the user.

For-profit education/training, especially for "flashy" careers like cooking and art, basically seems like a scam. $20-40k/yr for a couple year to get a $30-50k/yr job? Really?

Maybe work happiness and satisfaction is more important to some people than their lifetime salary?

This site offers an interesting differentiation between the linked to top priced keywords, and a proposed list of the most profitable keywords:

http://www.xedant.com/researches/top_500_adsense_keywords.ph...

(It iss certainly dated, and does not cite sources, but provides food for thought nonetheless).

data is four years old and copied from an undisclosed source.

I purchased a list of the 50,000 paying keywords last March off of a shady looking website. Details here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1294483

And, the complete list is here for public consumption: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B2QExXr67OcTZjNlNDYwMTktNmE...

If that's the data off Adsense Heaven (which I suspect it is) a more recent dataset can be found as a direct download here - this is last month's data, I haven't yet stumbled across this months

http://www.adsenseheaven.com/zipped/pos5119664.zip

I use a simple perl script to attempt to grab the latest copy of the data each month as the naming convetion is always the same.

posXXXXXXX.zip - X's being numbers.

Enjoy.

this is last month's data

It's older than that. It's actually from a year ago last March. My bad. I should have been clearer.

No, I mean the link I posted is a link to directly download last months data from them, off their website.

Very interesting.. Shows what can bring a real money. Paying $70 per one click is insane or must be very profitable and pay you back...

Sending click for $70 is a way better than selling anything online... And who says that adsense is not profitable? When someone pays $70 - another person must earn similar amount on adsense... am I right?

That would be Google.

But if clicks come from adsense google takes only some %.

It depends where the ad shows up. If it is shown and clicked on a Google site, then all of that money goes to Google.

Also happens to be the most spam search results on google, what a coincidence.

I don't understand how "orlando culinary institute" can have 3 different slots in the top 50. They seem to be spelled the same.

They must be giving out DUIs in San Diego like cupcakes. Funny as someone that has lived there and still goes there regularly, I never noticed.

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