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by raldi 4164 days ago
The top keywords, by the price Google charges to advertise on, are: insurance, loans, mortgage, attorney, credit, lawyer, donate, degree, hosting, claim, conference call, trading, software, recovery, transfer, electricity, classes, rehab, treatment, and cord blood.

None of those are the sort of term you type into Amazon.

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Those are bigger ticket items with bigger margins than, say, a pair of sneakers so it makes sense for the market to command a higher price for those ads. Would be better to see total amount spent on ads for different categories, trended over the last 10 years.
cord blood? Who buys ads around that, and for what?

Edit- Apparently cord blood banking is a thing.

But what percentage of income do those keywords add up to? Eating away at the bottom can still cause quite a bit of loss.
Give Bezos time.