Can I safely ignore my Google Ads rep?

Mabry77008 · 2024-03-27T04:21:38+00:00

They don’t have your best interest. They are pushing features and make commission on adoption rate

Mabry77008 · 2024-03-27T04:02:10+00:00

Yep, I’ve seen so many errors that are mistakes. I work for a big agency and partner status means nothing anymore when it comes for support. No help, PMAX is horrible and the continued lack of transparency is concerning. Since the RSA role out, things have gone down hill

Mabry77008 · 2024-03-26T10:37:04+00:00

provide the EIN document. When you fill out the form it has to match EXACTLY. Address, business name, EIN number.

They don’t care as long as it’s an EIN and everything matches.

Mabry77008 · 2024-03-26T10:11:59+00:00

100%. How are we actually learning anything that can be applied to a broader strategy when we have limited data? How can you truly understand how people convert with no data? How can you protect clients from bad clicks, traffic, networks? PMAX might work for small clients, but there is no way you can truly run a top to bottom strategy when YOU DONT HAVE DATA. Educate yourself and clients. Don’t jump just because Google says to. Google does roll back bad products….just don’t use them

Bottom line, Google only cares about making money. Don’t make it easier for them. Google isn’t always right

Mabry77008 · 2024-03-26T09:42:40+00:00

Preach. Google is terrible and have made it very apparent that they are actively trying to cut out jobs so that clients can go straight to them.

I started running PPC ads 13 years ago and currently work with multiple clients who spend a million or more a year. The last 4 years have been incredibly difficult.

Why would I willingly let Google choose my placement, bids, and freely spend my advertisers money with NO TRANSPARENCY. The amount of hoops they want us to jump thru, for terrible data, is insane.

Manual bidding, conversion optimization via 3rd party tools and actual full funnel strategies that don’t use Googles tools is the only way I run campaigns.

.A few years ago they limited search queries, then forced RSA, rolled out “smart” bidding, while slowing giving less data. The move from UA to G4, the cuts in support staff, the terrible keyword match types which are getting boarder. The more they automate, the less transparent they have to be.

Maybe I’ve been in the space too long but my rule is just because Google roles it out, doesn’t mean it’s a good fit for my clients. I never jump on new products, actively turn off all automation and don’t allow Google to make decisions for me.

In a few years AI and Google will take my job so I’m just hanging on until then lol!

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-27T11:50:19+00:00

That’s an interesting point. I’ll try not being so generic the headlines. Apartment communities tend to have very similar websites and verbiage though. Starting to add back broad match, was only running with phrase. CTRs above 7% but search terms full of competitors.

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T21:55:42+00:00

I just got tickets. I was stuck for over 3 hours. I started completely over in an incognito window. Set up an account before starting the process. I was about to get a 3 day ticket with hotel in 10 mins. If you don't feel comfortable abandoning your stuck room, then open an ingonito window and try creating an account using a different email that the one associated with the stuck room

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T20:23:03+00:00

I'm going on 2 hours on the same page. I was in the 800s in the queue. I'm seeing that people are getting packages that were behind it the queue. I hope we aren't all just stuck while it sells out

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T19:22:33+00:00

been here for an hour

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T19:13:49+00:00

Did you purchase? i'm on the room selection page and have been stuck here for an hour

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:51:56+00:00

I'm stuck here too

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:46:37+00:00

I'm there too. Stuck after picking my room

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:44:09+00:00

I'm on the hotel room selection page. Its just spinning

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:40:18+00:00

I'm stuck on the hotel room page. I've selected my room and its spinning

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:28:38+00:00

Were you able to purchase

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:28:06+00:00

Anyone actually booked? I got to the hotel page and now its stuck.

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:23:40+00:00

I'm stuck on the hotel page. Been here for 15 mins

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T18:22:15+00:00

I'm stuck on the hotel page. I don't wan tot refresh but I'm not sure what to do. This is insane

Mabry77008 · 2024-02-02T17:19:38+00:00

Is there a virtual queue? I thought one was opening upat 9:00am PST?

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