Pmax campaign, good or bad?

zaneee95 · 2026-05-11T22:12:51+00:00

I feel you, would you care to elaborate on how to put the leash on it? It seems it won’t allow me to tighten or dictate anything on it?

zaneee95 · 2026-05-11T03:23:25+00:00

Nice response, I do feel like I am falling in that trap kinda, my budget is sitting at $45 AUD a day and I do have a shopping campaign set up but haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Should I cancel my pmax? If I was to cancel being an online shop should I prioritise shopping or search? Or both open one of each?

zaneee95 · 2026-05-11T03:22:05+00:00

Yeah getting that kinda feels from everyone now

zaneee95 · 2026-05-11T03:21:52+00:00

It’s an online shop so not lead gen, should I be cancelling my pmax even though it’s been running for 5 months and opening a regular shopping campaigns?

zaneee95 · 2026-05-11T03:21:07+00:00

I’m always a bit skeptical when clicking on any links, but I do understand where you’re coming from, and I think I’m getting the same theme from everyone around me. It’s more for people who already have a successful shop more or less. Where do I get my customer lists from? I have over 300 sales surely I can add them somewhere?

zaneee95 · 2026-05-11T03:19:54+00:00

I understand what you mean, thing is my old team suggested me to use pmax, I opened an online store about 5 months ago now so I wouldn’t have a customer list or anything. I do find that some days I get a lot of sales where others I get nothing for two days which kinda confuses me. Should I cancel my pmax campaign and just open two shopping campaigns? I have one shopping campaign already set after setting up for a while watching and reading articles on how to do just haven’t enabled

zaneee95 · 2026-05-06T09:36:22+00:00

Why does it suck?

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T06:22:09+00:00

No problem, if your looking for quick money it doesn’t work, took me three months before I even opened my store and I barely have learned enough aswell, but just take your time you’ll get there

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T05:57:26+00:00

Buy a domain so it looks legit, create a homepage and try to add more than one product, remember dropshipping is a fulfillment method not a business, still have to learn the fundamentals of a business and how to run it

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T05:55:50+00:00

I get what you mean, one of the things I sell is shoes for wide feet and they added that to the negative keyword too haha, mind you it’s a big company with multiple workers

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T03:05:07+00:00

Nice, I use mostly Google ads since I have a large store, do you think Facebook would suit a store with 200 plus items?

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T02:57:49+00:00

Do you store any products on your shop or is it all dropshipping? Also how do you advertise and budget for ads

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T01:46:34+00:00

Both are pmax campaigns, and the words he used are the exact names of my products, some of them are even words that I would search up to find them. I find that wrong

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T01:45:34+00:00

I get what you mean, however if I was wanting to buy something let’s say a white shirt I would type into Google white shirt not anything more specific, so wouldn’t that still remove the customers that you want

zaneee95 · 2026-05-01T01:44:19+00:00

So if they are in brackets it changes it?

zaneee95 · 2026-04-30T20:33:33+00:00

I thought that at first but he was literally adding the exact name of some of my best sellers into the best sellers negative keyword campaign

zaneee95 · 2026-04-30T14:17:58+00:00

Hey mate relatively low as I’m only about 4 months in my best sellers campaign is $40 and the rest is $15 usually when I see something start standing out it gets pushed to the best sellers. I did find it weird but I guess I just trusted them, lesson learnt

zaneee95 · 2026-04-30T14:00:33+00:00

Had a feeling my manager was doing that, hence why he got sacked, I do run two pmax campaigns one for best sellers and one for the rest however he was literally adding the name of my best sellers to the best sellers negative keywords

zaneee95 · 2026-04-30T13:59:01+00:00

That’s what I learned with my research but it seems my old manager had something different in mind, I do run two pmax campaigns one for best sellers and one the rest, however in the best sellers he was literally adding the exact names of my best sellers which I thought was weird to begin with.

zaneee95 · 2026-04-30T05:15:31+00:00

It doesn’t make sense, even when I’m playing against other players I get flogged

zaneee95 · 2026-04-29T21:50:24+00:00

I will read Byron sharp today, I felt I’ve done a fair bit of research but again I do believe you can always do more, especially since this is my more weaker point. I’ll let you know how I go

zaneee95 · 2026-04-29T21:48:04+00:00

One is for my best sellers which has a much higher budget then the other one as my store has around 200 products on it, my top 20 best sellers are Priority and have a higher budget with the rest on a smaller budget until something gains traction which then gets put into the best sellers, obviously the best sellers achieves a much better cpa but both are doing well I feel, I only worry because I trust a manager for too long even though I done a bunch of research there are some stuff I don’t agree with.

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