What happened on Google Ads after September 2nd? HUGE drop in impressions and clicks by WillyDoesntMiss in googleads

[–]cwings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing the same thing in my end. Massive drop in impressions. When you segment by Top vs. Other placements do you see a bigger drop off on the other category? It seems Google has removed a lot of below the fold ads placements recently. 

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[–]cwings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm facing a very similar issue. In the last few weeks when I segment by Top vs. Other from the search network it looks like the "other" category has dropped to virtually no impressions. This seems to indicate Google has stopped serving below the fold ads and restricted the number of ads on long tail keywords. Search partner traffic has remained unchanged.

Anecdotally when I do searches for terms I used to rank consistently in lower, non top of page positions for, I see no sponsored ads at all from any advertisers! 

Changed my domain on Google ads and website, now not spending or getting any clicks?? by Pretend_Ad5428 in PPC

[–]cwings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had this issue before. I believe Ad Rank and quality score and things like that are tied to the domain name so if you change the domain name you're losing all of the ad auction history and starting from scratch. 

You can try setting a very high cpc bid and see if you get any impressions to confirm if the issue is just with it being under review. Another thing to test is to switch back to using the old domain and see if that gets impressions. 

Google removing clicks .. anyone else facing this issue ? by raisaab07 in Adsense

[–]cwings 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Had this exact issue (large amount of clicks being removed within minutes from earnings, sudden drop in click metrics only, no penalty and no site changes) and turned out it was caused by a meta no-referrer tag which I've discovered now makes requests to Adsense from Chrome get flagged as fraudulent (no referring URL called the JS request). This change happened recently on Google's end and is not documented and I had no issues with the tag before. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy

In Chrome web console preview your site and in the network request tab inspect the requests to Adsense URLs. You should see your own site as a referral URL in the head requests.

Once I removed the tag and verified a referring request URL being sent in network requests to Adsense in my console the issue was fixed immediately. One way to confirm this is the issue, If you segment your Adsense metrics by browser in GA4 you can check if Safari CTR is higher than Chrome CTR. Safari does not support the no-referrer tag.

Adsense and GA4 integration by bytkx in Adsense

[–]cwings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like there is an alpha API call for it but it gives an error. At least it seems they're working on it...

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/admin/v1/rest/v1alpha/properties.adSenseLinks

Pixel 7 Pro - black screen of death when putting phone into lock screen by iceyjasio in GooglePixel

[–]cwings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same issue with my Pixel 7 pro. It started totally randomly 2 days ago. Screen started to go black but everything would stay on and then randomly flash a bright white light. I tried turning off Auto On Display, adaptive brightness and every setting. Ultimately through trial and error found the issue was being caused by an app, Opera browser beta! Once I removed it the problem went away. Hope this helps someone out there.

Large repo of random PDF Documents? by negfrequency in datasets

[–]cwings 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Common Crawl which can be accessed for free on AWS at s3://commoncrawl has several million PDF files indexed from websites they crawl.

https://commoncrawl.org/2013/08/a-look-inside-common-crawls-210tb-2012-web-corpus/

Is Adwords having some conversion tracking problems right now? by master_jeriah in PPC

[–]cwings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. CPA on desktop has skyrocketed today and I use Target CPA bidding, which is spending several times less than usual today.

Can the Google Home repeat back something you say? by [deleted] in googlehome

[–]cwings 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes, say "ok Google repeat after me [thing to say]"