I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
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I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
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Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#2Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding.
Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#3Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
I was always told that Google's real customers were advertisers and that they would be treated well. Guess that's not the case.
Google seems to be insistent on making it as hard as possible for people to utilize their products.
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#4Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
Facebook ads are like 90% scams. I don't even understand how any of them get accepted. It's also night and day difference from Instagram which is also owned by Meta, I don't get it.
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#5> expanded my audience to all first world countries, and got way more clicks, especially in India, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica and Argentina. I guess not a lot of companies pay for ads in those countries, so there's less competition for clicks? Who knows.
Seems just as likely they located the click fraud.
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#6Yea. I am selling a pretty honest product, nothing fishy about it. Not even naughty. Just an eink display for google calendar.
My Google Merchant account got banned immediately and I have no idea why.
For now, I have decided to not play this game and will look for marketing avenues outside google.
EDIT: In case you want to play a game of guess-what-got-him-banned, this is the product page: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#7Yea. I am selling a pretty honest product, nothing fishy about it. Not even naughty. Just an eink display for google calendar. My Google Merchant account got banned immediately and I have no idea why. For now, I have decided to not play this game and will look for marketing avenues outside google. EDIT: In case you want to play a game of guess-what-got-him-banned, this is the product page: https://shop.invisible-comp…
You’re probably better off shipping free hardware to appropriate bloggers, etc rather than burning cash at the altar of Google.
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#8Yea. I am selling a pretty honest product, nothing fishy about it. Not even naughty. Just an eink display for google calendar. My Google Merchant account got banned immediately and I have no idea why. For now, I have decided to not play this game and will look for marketing avenues outside google. EDIT: In case you want to play a game of guess-what-got-him-banned, this is the product page: https://shop.invisible-comp…
You’re probably better off shipping free hardware to appropriate bloggers, etc rather than burning cash at the altar of Google.
yes. That's what I will probably try.
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#9> expanded my audience to all first world countries, and got way more clicks, especially in India, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica and Argentina. I guess not a lot of companies pay for ads in those countries, so there's less competition for clicks? Who knows. Seems just as likely they located the click fraud.
It's quite possible.
Given that the author also seems to not understand what impressions are...
> I quickly learned that Google Ads has a minimum spend they’ll charge you just for impressions. So they put my ads on a bunch of websites no one ever goes to and charged me $50/day for it. Ugh.
(If nobody visits the website, you wouldn't be paying for impressions. The author's getting impressions, people are going to that website, people are seeing the ad, the website gets paid by Google for that ad space, it's just that none of them care about clicking on the ad.)
... I think this is more of an example of 'I've bought a $5,000 oscilloscope, and I'm using it to hammer screws.'
People definitely use oscilloscopes (and ad campaigns) to do profitable things, but as any non-trivial tool, it takes time, effort, and education to learn. For a tiny business, that time, effort, and money may or may not be worth it.
The author's other problem is that their business (A plugin for gmail) is kind of adjacent to a lot of really shady spyware/malware/etc. Ironically, when that spyware appears in ads, people on this forum then poo-poo the ad network for allowing harmful crap to be advertised...
Re: I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times
#10Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
I was always told that Google's real customers were advertisers and that they would be treated well. Guess that's not the case. Google seems to be insistent on making it as hard as possible for people to utilize their products.
The internet isn't just competitive, it's a combat zone.