Ask Me Anything About {Google Ads}

[jason haney]

Hey. How do I select operating system when making Google Ads? I searched everywhere and it seems there is no way to tell Google to only give impressions to a certain OS, which seem ludicrous to me because their Chrome is an app that knows with 100% reliability what OS anyone that runs it has, which is probably true for ¾ of all ads they show. They only let me select "desktop" but not Mac, Linux, Windows.



Next, how to get ad views only from selected country? Let’s say I "set" it to USA, but there actually is no explicit settings that I can find. The only thing I could do was select the harshest target option and the harshest exclude option for location. Take a look at the screenshot and let me know if this is the best I can do:

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Reason I am bringing this up is because even on tiny budget, Google is giving me mixed traffic when I am going for USA traffic. Some days half of the ad clicks come from 3rd world countries while paying same CPC, it is ridiculous. Thank you for reading.

Number 1
You cannot Select "Operating System" in Google ads, apart from Youtube Campaign wherein you can choose between IOS and Android Devices only.
Next in line
Nothing is perfect my friend, google ads does provide you unwanted traffic across the world if you want to filter it, USE CLOAKING services. You have to bear the cost of unwanted clicks if your are working with Google ads.
You can optimize your Campaign with IP Exclusion or Choose Third Party "Fraud Click Protection" Services
I would Really like to see Little more info of kind of unwanted clicks you're getting, Maybe your Keyword has limited reach, Or CPC is not enough to provide Genuine Clicks.


Thanks for Writing, Cheers

 

[jason haney]

I can’t edit my last post anymore and I got another big question for you. One of my campaigns has “low competition”, in fact there is no competition at all, nobody else is bidding for those keywords as strange as it sounds, at least the auction insights page and manual checking is indicating that.

Still, I am paying a whole dollar per click and my CTR is just under 10% and one some keywords up to 15%. “Targeting” USA, in quotes because look at my previous comment about geo-targeting. And I am positive if I remove my maximum bid limit, Google will rob me at even higher rates. It happened in a few short bursts when I increased limit. I hope you can comment on this one. Thanks again.

Well Google ads is there to Provide you Traffic, you want more traffic increase bids , budgets , optimize lander, campaign and boom you got your CTR
Also they giving you option to limit your bids is another way of them saying if you dont want to get robbed, Manage it yourself.

 

[jason haney]

Trying to run the ads for a local company who does surf lessons and moto rental .

What's the best way to engage them ? Straight up to the landing page or to the main page where is a quote form and all the prices ?

Also since a lot of traffic it's coming from Google maps what the veste at to combine the ads with Google map ?

It's a small as town... 40k people...but there is a huge amount of travelers coming in and out everyday. Whats the best advice on targeting the people who plan to travel here ??


Thank you so much already learned a lot from this thread!

List your Business on google maps
Enable location Extension on google Ads account.
Update your Google My business listings.
use location Targeting based on Suggested bids.
Optimize your Keywords, Add negatives as well.
use your main page to Engage with visitors
Always keep a check on your Click history details.

Best of Luck

 

[tester234]

Since Google is now pushing their automated strategies, how viable do you see manual CPC in this age? Do they have any specific use cases that they will perform better?
For the long term, which will be your go-to strategy?

 

[jason haney]

Since Google is now pushing their automated strategies, how viable do you see manual CPC in this age? Do they have any specific use cases that they will perform better?
For the long term, which will be your go-to strategy?

I am pretty positive about my own actions, i Choose Manual most of times and will always choose Manual.
its more flexible, you can adjust your own ads ranking.
However I strongly mention that bid strategy entirely depends on your niche, every niche has it own requirements.
Bang on Manual will be in Hall of Fame soon.

 

[godknowseverything]

Any good courses for beginners?

Thanks

 

[Indiangrubby]

Hi, I need a little help understanding what could be the cause of the suspension I got.

I was running 3 grants accounts, running CPA campaigns perfectly.... but since I wanted to increase the conversions & wanted to understand what keywords are brining the conversions. I wanted to track everything.

Met a guy who said who is good at it & he said he uses bemob for this purpose.

He setup everything perfectly, we edited the url on the CTA's of my landing page to the bemob url.


Then he asked me to make changes in the tracking template of the ads...... I did it & resubmitted ads.

BOOM! All 3 accounts gone in an instant - suspension reason - circumventing systems policy.

Do you think you can help me understand why did that happen?

 

[Harryw]

Do you have provide any google ads cloaking management service ?

I am looking for someone to help me set up and manage my campaigns (blackhat niche) using a cloaker. If you have any recommendations please let me know..

 

[oldguyjoe]

Number 1
You cannot Select "Operating System" in Google ads, apart from Youtube Campaign wherein you can choose between IOS and Android Devices only.
Next in line
Nothing is perfect my friend, google ads does provide you unwanted traffic across the world if you want to filter it, USE CLOAKING services. You have to bear the cost of unwanted clicks if your are working with Google ads.
You can optimize your Campaign with IP Exclusion or Choose Third Party "Fraud Click Protection" Services
I would Really like to see Little more info of kind of unwanted clicks you're getting, Maybe your Keyword has limited reach, Or CPC is not enough to provide Genuine Clicks.
Thanks for Writing, Cheers

You know what's funny, Google Ads won't let me target by desktop OS but Google Analytics *knows* how many of my visitors are from Windows, Linux and Mac. LOL greedy Google insist on selling me portions of traffic I don't want to buy.

 

[MIRANTHA]

I have a fiverr gig and i want to promote it using google ads..

but i don't want to drive traffic to fiverr from ads because of their huge fees
How can i get the customer details from ad ? or how can client order my service because i don't have a website for this

Thanks

 

[VitalyProkofiev]

Hi, I need a little help understanding what could be the cause of the suspension I got.

I was running 3 grants accounts, running CPA campaigns perfectly.... but since I wanted to increase the conversions & wanted to understand what keywords are brining the conversions. I wanted to track everything.

Met a guy who said who is good at it & he said he uses bemob for this purpose.

He setup everything perfectly, we edited the url on the CTA's of my landing page to the bemob url.


Then he asked me to make changes in the tracking template of the ads...... I did it & resubmitted ads.

BOOM! All 3 accounts gone in an instant - suspension reason - circumventing systems policy.

Do you think you can help me understand why did that happen?

BeMob caused it. It's either because you used their default subdomain (which is probably flagged so instant ban), you had more than one offer in campaign settings (like split test of offers, so 50% traffic was going to one offer, and 50% to another) - this, if caught, is basically a cloaking in Google's eyes. Or simply because they have whole Bemob scripts flagged.

I had similar problems with Bemob even with tracking pixel without any redirections on path, so I suspect that they have flagged whole system as a cloaker (even tho it's really not one.). I tried bunch of combinations, each one got me banned.

My solution: Don't use BeMob for Google Ads, use something hosted, without third party cookies - like Keitaro CDN (40$ a month plus some VPS to put it on), Binom (bit more expensive) - this two I can recommend, they are undetectable (there's no indicator for Google that you are using tracker at all - no scripts in html code - unless you rotate offers or do some cloaking, then they might find it), or, if you want SaaS, use Voluum - it has great API integration with G Ads, without redirects either

 

[Indiangrubby]

BeMob caused it. It's either because you used their default subdomain (which is probably flagged so instant ban), you had more than one offer in campaign settings (like split test of offers, so 50% traffic was going to one offer, and 50% to another) - this, if caught, is basically a cloaking in Google's eyes. Or simply because they have whole Bemob scripts flagged.

I had similar problems with Bemob even with tracking pixel without any redirections on path, so I suspect that they have flagged whole system as a cloaker (even tho it's really not one.). I tried bunch of combinations, each one got me banned.

My solution: Don't use BeMob for Google Ads, use something hosted, without third party cookies - like Keitaro CDN (40$ a month plus some VPS to put it on), Binom (bit more expensive) - this two I can recommend, they are undetectable (there's no indicator for Google that you are using tracker at all - no scripts in html code - unless you rotate offers or do some cloaking, then they might find it), or, if you want SaaS, use Voluum - it has great API integration with G Ads, without redirects either

cool thanks for coming up with perfectly summed up reply.

As far as tracking goes, I am pretty much noob at it but I really dont give a damn as far as my ads are running perfectly on grants, I just wanted to step up the game & got punished for being a noob on understanding technicalities that entails with all of the processes to set it up.

I wish, I should have tried that on my one account first...... sadly now they are gone.

thanks again for the reply.

It's either because you used their default subdomain (which is probably flagged so instant ban), you had more than one offer in campaign settings (like split test of offers, so 50% traffic was going to one offer, and 50% to another) -

Exactly this was done!

 

[NimaZeynali]

Hello,
does g-ads work for apps? like quotes or fitness.
whats the average CPC or CPI? thanks alot

 

[Mr H]

PM me you niche Related info. i will suggest according to my best knowledge. or you can also share info here in thread if you feel comfortable.

how can i contact you

 

[jennieblink]

Do you have any tips for put new kw. After adding bh keyword the key is approved but not showing in google search but showing in non-google serach search page. Tried to create several and still not working. But white keywords work normally on Google search pages.

 

[Mr H]

Do you have any tips for put new kw. After adding bh keyword the key is approved but not showing in google search but showing in non-google serach search page. Tried to create several and still not working. But white keywords work normally on Google search pages.

what are bh keywords!??

 

[engrfeda]

How do I run ads for CPA? Especially to fake generator

 

[Anton07]

I offer Tech services ([is something that is not fully allowed by Google Ads)
IS there any way to promote my tech remote services with Google ads?

 

[benjaminfr]

Hi,

I have a situation that seems weird to me. I created an Ads account to advertise a legitimate, regulated business in the UK. I created a few ads that ran ok for about 2 weeks. On week 3 my account got suspended for Circumventing systems policy. I filled the appeal form and it got reactivated in 2 days. A few hours later it got suspended again. This time I disabled all the ads, filled in the appeal again and the next day it got reactivated. I did NOT start any campaigns this time, wanted to make sure that all is ok. The account got suspended a third time after less than 24 hours passed. NO ads or campaigns were running.
I got sent a business operations verification which I filled in, I removed all the ads and campaigns from my account to make sure nothing was wrong, I paid the outstanding balance of around £70 for the ads, I filled another appeal to get my account reactivated and got refused this time by the message that my account was and still is violating the Circumventing systems policy and that the decision is final and I should not try to open another account with google.
Completely lost at this point.

1) What can I do now? I only was trying to advertise my legitimate business and as far as I am aware was not trying to circumvent anything.

2) Will I be ok to advertise my website if I create another account with a different CC, or will I get suspended for advertising the same domain?

 

[jason haney]

I just retuned i will try to answer everyone ASAP.

Thank you all.