How To Avoid Adwords Bid Prices Of $1.00 Or Above?
You have a problem. You logged into your Google Adwords Account to discover that all your keywords are inactive and that you will need to bid $1.00, $5.00, or even $10.00 for these keywords. Unless bid prices in your niche market are that high by default due to high competition, you normally should not have to pay $1.00 to activate keywords. Your Google Adwords account has been flagged as not meeting the new Google Quality Score. You will need to address this problem accordingly to lower your overall bid prices and to avoid more problems down the road.
It can have several reasons why Google is adjusting your minimum bid prices. I got hit by the Quality Score myself not too long ago. I had recently started a few new Google Adwords campaigns and some campaigns just never got off the ground at all due to high bid prices required by Google. As a matter of fact I deleted these campaigns within a few hours after discovering the problem because there was no financial sense in keeping them active. These campaigns would not generate any clicks at the price I was willing to pay and Google deactivating all my keywords...