r/GoogleAdsDiscussion

I have been running both and got leads from meta but colder ones and 0 leads from google

But budget was keeep going
I have a tattoo business in vadodara

Please suggest me or help me through it

My management asked me to create an awareness campaign using Google Search Ads. In addition to creating the ads, I added audience segments based on interests and detailed demographics.

My question is: Do these audience segments help us reach a broader audience, or do they actually make a difference in Google Search campaigns?

Hello - please rate my landing page - https://aigeoreport.com/lp/ - I'm aware that a comment will be to reduce text, which is fair, but to be fairer to me, is it possible that you please let me know which text to cut?

I’d be happy to take a look at your Google Ads account and give you a free audit with some suggestions on what could be improved.

Just looking to gain more experience and help a few businesses out in the process. Not trying to sell anything.

I just started running google ads on my pet store(pet products and accessories) after months of trying to get my GMC approved but my ROAS is so low any tips on how i can improve that.
Things like whether to switch to shopping instead of P-max, creating a better landing page/offer or how many days should i wait till i can know for sure the campaign isn’t working. Things like that would be quite helpful.
About the budget what is the normal ratio of budget to no of products being advertised.

Hey everyone I am new to Google Ads and my first campaign is having 'Impressions Upcoming' for 26 hours now, despite maximized clicks without a cap. Is it normal ? There is no restriction whatsoever. Everything eligible. Funds available. Payment method ok. 46 keywords.

Most Google Ads outreach fails before the first message even gets sent.

You’re either contacting someone who isn’t the decision maker, pitching a business that can’t afford your services, or reaching someone who already has an agency.

So I tried approaching it differently.
I started with 500 roofing companies from Google Maps and filtered them down to just 27 prospects that met three criteria:

Had the owner’s direct mobile number

Were already spending money on Facebook/Instagram ads

Weren’t currently running Google Ads

The logic is pretty simple.

If they’re already paying for Meta ads, they’ve demonstrated they’re willing to spend money on advertising.

If they’re not running Google Ads, there’s a potential opportunity.

And if they’re in an industry like roofing, where customers actively search Google when they need the service, the pitch becomes a lot easier to justify.
I recorded the entire process, including how I found and filtered the businesses.

Curious if anyone here is using a similar approach to find PPC clients, or if you’ve found a better way to qualify prospects before outreach.

Hey everyone!

I'm relatively new to managing Google Ads for a B2B manufacturing company, and I'd really appreciate some advice from more experienced advertisers.

A little context:

I recently joined a company that manufactures cardboard packaging for other businesses. I'm currently the entire marketing department, handling everything from market research and graphic design to video editing, website development, Meta Ads, Google Ads, and reporting to management.

Basically, I'm the marketing department, the agency, and the intern. LOL.

Originally, the company wanted to focus on e-commerce, but after evaluating production costs, we realized that selling individual products online wasn't financially viable for now.

So we shifted toward B2B lead generation.

Our ideal customers are companies looking for bulk orders, recurring supply, custom dimensions, and industrial packaging.

I built a landing page using Shopify, and we're now running a Google Search campaign to generate quote requests.

Campaign results so far (October 2–8):

Metric	Result
Campaign type	Google Search
Total spend	~$1,408 MXN (~$75 USD)
Impressions	312
Clicks	46
CTR	14.74%
Average CPC	$30.62 MXN (~$1.65 USD)
Reported conversions	3
Conversion rate	6.52%
Cost per conversion	~$469 MXN (~$25 USD)

USD amounts are approximate, and the sample is still very small.

One important detail about tracking:

We initially had some conversion tracking issues, but those have already been fixed.

There was also one real lead that Google Ads didn't attribute correctly.

I'm not counting that lead as an additional Google Ads conversion in the numbers above because I want to keep platform-reported conversions separate from actual CRM leads.

What I'm currently seeing:

The CTR seems encouraging, and the campaign is getting clicks from people searching for cardboard packaging.

Our ad copy emphasizes B2B manufacturing, bulk orders, custom dimensions, and industrial applications.

However, the CPC varies quite a bit from day to day, and I'm not sure whether that's normal given the low volume.

Our sales team is still evaluating lead quality, so I don't have enough information about qualified opportunities, closed deals, or profitability.

I know that 3 reported conversions are nowhere near enough to draw strong conclusions.

Here are my questions:

1. Bidding strategy: For a new B2B Search campaign with only 3 conversions, would you recommend Maximize Conversions, Maximize Clicks, or manual CPC? What factors would influence your decision?
2. Learning period: How long would you let a campaign like this run before making meaningful changes? Would you base that decision more on elapsed time, clicks, spend, or conversion volume?
3. Keywords and match types: For niche B2B manufacturing, would you start with phrase/exact match or include broad match? How would you approach search term analysis without accidentally excluding valuable business inquiries?
4. CPC fluctuations: Is it normal for average CPC to fluctuate significantly during the first week? At what point would you consider it a real problem rather than normal auction variability?
5. Negative keywords: How aggressively would you add negatives during the first few weeks? I'm concerned about blocking relevant B2B searches because some general terms can also have commercial intent.
6. Conversion optimization: Since actual qualified leads are relatively rare, would you initially optimize for submitted quote requests and later import qualified lead conversions from the CRM?
7. Landing page: Would you prioritize improving the landing page and lead qualification process before making changes to the campaign?
8. Overall: Based on these early results, what would you investigate first, and what would you deliberately leave unchanged?

I'm not trying to scale aggressively or chase the cheapest possible leads.

My priority is attracting companies with genuine purchasing potential, ideally recurring orders, rather than generating lots of low-quality form submissions.

I also don't want to make unnecessary changes just because the campaign is new and I'm impatient to see results.

I'm especially interested in hearing from people who have managed Google Ads for B2B manufacturing, industrial suppliers, packaging companies, or other businesses with longer sales cycles.

Any practical advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

And please, no agency pitches. I'm already doing the work of about five people here. LOL.

Small web design studio here (EU, Slovenia). Since Oct 3 every ad and asset in my account has the same status:
Eligible (limited) → Under re-review → "Not allowed in [country]", "Google found this issue with automated checks".
What I've noticed:
It follows whatever country I target. My Slovenian Search campaign says "Not allowed in Slovenia", and a test campaign for the US says "Not allowed in United States".
It hits every asset, even plain headlines like "Website design" and sitelinks to my pricing page.
My PMax campaign went from ~800 impressions/day to zero on Oct 3 and has been stuck since.
No specific policy is named. "Read the policy" just links to the generic ad review article.
Advertiser verification completed Oct 6. Billing is fine, no suspension, no warnings.
Google Ads support (email, AI-assisted reply) said the account is in good standing, there's no violation, it's a "routine automated safety evaluation", it takes 1–2 business days, and I shouldn't edit anything. But PMax has been limited for 5 days already.
Questions:
Has anyone had this "under re-review / not allowed in [country]" status on all ads at once? How long did it take to clear?
Did an appeal help, or does it just restart the review?
Could it be triggered by something account-level? For example, verification having just been completed, or a mismatch between the verified name, the business name in the website footer, and the brand name in ads.

A lot of our leads seem to follow a journey like:

Google Ad → Website → WhatsApp → sends a message

Once they move into WhatsApp though, it gets pretty difficult to connect the actual enquiry back to the ad.

Curious what everyone else sees.

Do most of your WhatsApp leads visit the website first, or are you sending people straight from the ad into WhatsApp?

And if they visit the website first, can you actually tell which visitor became the person messaging you?

Has anyone used Antigravity to run their paid google and social campaigns? I run a dealership and we do monthly advertising for new and used specials and currently use a 3rd party to manage our Google and social ads.

Hi,

So, youtube sent me an email saying I had to check my identity. So i click, and it says I have to tell them my Dun and Bradstreet information, and send any document proving I pay TVA taxes.
I have no idea what this is. I'm a small music creator, I just make music and post my music on youtube (they are mine, not covers, if that matters). I don't register anywhere. I don't have like a professionnal register something. I used to make ads sometimes but I really don't like how it works, I think it's just too complicated. But maybe for my next track I'd like to run a little campaign. And it says I won't be able to run any campaign if I don't prove my identity by sending the Dun and Bradstreet info.
What should I do ?

Hi, I am trying to run Youtube Ads campaigns for a legal client. These are lead gen campaigns. I have the videos and everything.

The client is a Real estate lawyer firm in a Latin American country I build two audiences with keywords that people would search, build some videos as ads and put together the campaigns but none of them is getting impressions.

The set up

I open a campaign with conversions objective and the algorithm put me in demand campaign automatically. But I am only interested in youtube so I have blocked different things trying that it don't send me junk traffic.

For example I have youtube shorts, maps, display and all other that is not normal youtube ads blocked. I have all type of mobile apps blocked plus TVs and Tablets.

An issue that I see is that the audiences even if when i build them it was showing 1-5 million in the US for example and other audience was in the hundreds od views in the latam country when i put in the campaign it says 30k and 50k impressions. I try to set a daily budget of $30 to $40 daily and set up the goal as conversions that I have in the account such as form fill, live chat etc. No impressions. Change to clicks no impressions.

This is an account where I run search campaigns in it and has history of conversions. But we don't spend a lot around $2500-$3000 month and we run campaigns in the US and generate leads. We try now to use Youtube but it has been proving to be a challenge to even got impressions.

My thesis is that I probably need a giant audience in terms of impressions or a big budget to see if in this way but this is a high ticket service to check real estate properties before buy so a giant audience probably bring me junk traffic.

One of my audiences with 1-5 million impressions reflect the demographics of age well for example.

Something that I have not try yet is delete these campaigns and launch them on video target CPV only. Probably works but then I will not be able to optimize for conversions. It's that difficult to test campaigns on youtube now with this thing of demand campaigns? What you do in these cases it has been a week with this.

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