r/GoogleAdsDiscussion

Hi everyone,

I need some advice regarding Google Merchant Center.

I recently opened a new Merchant Center account, but during the initial setup, I accidentally entered and linked the wrong website URL.

Please note that I haven't configured any other settings yet, nor have I added any products or completed the full verification process. I only put the wrong website during the very first steps of creating the account.

Now, I want to unlink that wrong website and connect this Merchant Center account to my actual, new online store.

What is the best and safest way to fix this since the account is still brand new? Should I just change the website URL inside the account settings and verify the correct one, or is there a better way to do it?

Thanks in advance for your help!

In Google Ads, I created a conversion action, which is first_open, from Google Analytics events. And I set that as a goal for the campaign. The ads link to App Store downloads.

Now, I can see first_open events from Google Analytics, I can see ads clicks from Google Ads, and I can see app downloads from Apple Connect. But from Google Ads, the conversion is always zero for all the ad groups of the campaign. So I am wondering are the downloads from organic traffic, or are they from the ads (click->app store->downloads) but Google Ads could not track it.

Any help is really appreciated

I am running ads in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and my competitors are running ads on the same keywords that I am targeting, but my ads are getting disapproved while their ads are running. What could be the reason?

Hi, so I have a clothing brand and we are running Google shopping ads for the first time ever. Now we want to promote only a certain products and not everything from a brand. So when I set up my shopping ad, I selected only the products from merchant account that I wanted to promote.

But when I tracked it after two days, all the keywords were wrong, they were not going to the product that we wanted to promote so I added some negative keywords and restarted my campaign, but after a certain time, also even till today when it’s been like two weeks, all the keywords are wrong, despite adding few of them on our negative keyword. How do we resolve this? Please help

Hey guys, I believe I’ve figured out how to not get suspended on merchant center.

Have any of you tried creating the account and letting it sit for 3 weeks? Connect it to ads but don’t run any campaigns.

LET ME KNOW!

I’ve tried this twice and it seems to be the trick

Hi, yesterday I changed my feed source to Google Shopping from Woocommerce. I started using a new app with far more flexibility. So everything in GMC looks fine - no disapproval or issues. But my Shopping ads are set up using Custom Labels, and all of my campaigns are showing no products. So, is there a waiting period for GMC to talk to Google Ads? Or do I need to look further into the setup?

I'm new to Google Ads. I built this store with SEO first but I've only got 2 sales so far, so now I want to run paid properly, and I'd rather hear I'm wrong here than find out with my money.

The product: physical thing, not cheap, the kind people think about before buying instead of grabbing on impulse. Sells for around €210. After payment fees I keep about €109. I've got roughly 100 products in the store, around 40 of them land near €100 profit each.

What the Keyword Planner actually says: the main keyword does about 50k searches a month. Top of page bid low is around €0.10, high is around €0.80. Competition shows as "high".

The math I ran before committing: assume only 0.5% of visitors buy, so I need 200 visitors per sale. 200 × CPC is what one sale costs me in ad spend. At a €0.45 CPC that's €90 a sale, under my €109 margin, so even with a pessimistic 0.5% it survives on paper.

What I actually need from you:

1. is 0.5% conversion too pessimistic for Shopping on a pricier product people think about before buying? what do you really see on this kind of thing

2. that high top of page bid is always sitting high. for Shopping do I need to factor that high number in, or can I basically ignore it since Shopping usually comes in cheaper

3. starting out, how many products do you actually put in the campaign? like I said I've got ~100, ~40 near €100 margin. all of them, or just a few

Big picture: at these CPCs and this margin, does this look like something worth running, or not really?

Please help me out, I genuinely want to know if I'm on the right track or just wasting my time. And if you've got other advice I'll take it, anything helps.

I’ve noticed this happening a lot lately and I’m curious if it’s just me.

I’ll launch a Google Ads campaign and everything looks great at first good CTR, conversions coming in, landing page performing well, etc. But once I start increasing the budget, the performance suddenly drops.

The ads still seem okay, but the landing page just stops converting the same way. Then I end up going down a rabbit hole changing headlines, CTAs, layouts, forms, mobile design… basically testing everything again 😅

Sometimes I can’t even tell what the real issue is:

• different traffic quality?
• page speed?
• mismatch between ad copy and landing page?
• audience fatigue?

It feels like scaling the ads creates a completely different situation for the landing page.

Would love to know how others deal with this.
Do you keep rebuilding pages and testing variants constantly, or is there a better workflow for this?

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I’m noticing a lot of users coming through Google Ads who:

- sign in with Google

- successfully create an account

- but never actually use the product at all

In my case, they don’t even complete the first meaningful action after signup.

What confuses me is:

why would someone go through Google Sign-In and then instantly disappear without even testing the core feature?

At first I thought my onboarding was the issue.

But after looking deeper, some of these signups almost feel like extremely low-intent traffic, accidental clicks, or possibly even low-quality automated traffic.

I’m curious if other founders/SaaS builders are seeing the same thing recently with Google Ads.

Especially with Display/App campaigns.

How are you filtering for actual intent now?

Google Ads account suspended for “violation of our circumvention and system interference.” Any idea on what I can say in the appeal? First appeal was denied.

Hi this is my first time trying to setup YT ads. For context we are arabic film distrubtion company and we help promoting arabic movies worldwide. We have been mainly doing facebook ads and I think this is the perfect time to look for new market using youtube ads. About the campaign I have set a traffic campaign with follwing details
Campaign type: Demand Gen
Bid Strategy: Maximize Clicks
Budget is 30usd
We are targeting cities in germany
I have connected 3 youtube videos they are unlisted on my youtube page and they are in 3 different aspect ratio 16x9, 1x1, 9x16
ad is scheduled for whole day
I have set 5 text for each headline, long headline, and description
My goal is to maximise website traffic and I have linked my website in ad level in the final URL section.
i only have one ad group and one ad
For language I have used arabic and channels i have only used yt
i did create custom audience with some general arabic keywords which had a lot of impressions and the final estimated impression by them in the ad level was 210k-360k
This google account has not been used for ads for few years.

Now coming to the real problem, its been 4 days we have 0 budget spent and no impression, Germany is one of the biggest market for us so thats not the problem its something to do with either my account or something in the setting I am missing please help out how I can fix this, I tried different country with different movie previously faced the same issue so here I am let me know what you think can be the reason and ill look into it.

Hi everyone, I made a classic rookie mistake and need some advice on how badly I’ve messed up the machine learning / algorithm optimization for my account.

By mistake, I set my homepage views as a primary purchase conversion goal, complete with an associated conversion value. This setup was active for about a month.

https://preview.redd.it/1ijzectnl12h1.png?width=1852&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a606d4e628ea5e7cb647ffcb494b45c3e30a98b

As you can see from the dashboard, the data is completely wild:

• Actual Spend: €161.06
• Recorded Conversions: 5,086.94 (fake, just standard page visits)
• Conversion Value: €106,874.39 (completely fake)

Fortunately, the budget was low, so I didn't lose real money out of pocket. However, I’m really worried about what's happening under the hood. My campaigns rely on Smart Bidding (Maximize Conversion Value / tROAS).

I have a few questions for the PPC experts here:

1. Algorithm Damage: The algorithm is now trained to look for users who just browse the homepage, thinking they are high-value buyers. How long will it take to unlearn this, or should I just blow up the campaigns and start fresh?
2. Data Exclusions: If I use the Data Exclusions tool in Google Ads for this specific one-month period, will the algorithm successfully ignore these fake conversions for future bidding optimization?
3. Reporting: Is there any way to retroactively fix or adjust historical data so my dashboard isn't polluted forever, or do I just have to live with this massive fake spike in my charts?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction!

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How long does it usually take for Google Ads to start generating traffic?I've been running it for three days, setting the maximum click-through rate. It's a $17 Shopping AD. I removed the partner network and only kept Google's own main network (I heard from others that this way the traffic is more precise), but it's already been three days. Why are there only four displays? My account was also opened three days ago. There is a balance of 50 US dollars in it. I'm sure.

Does anyone use this? Mine has lost its menu of sub-items - only shows “Help”. Which is in fact not helpful

Hey everyone,

I’m running a newer Shopify store and I recently got hit with a Google Merchant Center misrepresentation suspension. I’m trying to genuinely fix everything before requesting another review and would really appreciate advice from people who’ve dealt with this before.

So far, I’ve identified a few possible issues:

• mismatched currency in shipping/delivery info
• new domain/store with low trust history
• AI-generated product/lifestyle images
• imported/supplier review images
• inconsistent product specs on one product page
• possibly weak business transparency/contact info

I’ve already started fixing:

• shipping/currency settings
• policies/footer/contact pages
• business info consistency
• support email setup

A few questions:

1. Has anyone successfully recovered from a misrepresentation suspension on a newer Shopify store?
2. How strict is Google with AI-generated images if the product itself is real?
3. Do supplier/imported review photos commonly trigger suspensions?
4. How long should I wait after fixing issues before requesting another review?
5. Are there any hidden trust signals Google checks that most people miss?

I’d really appreciate any real experience or advice because I’m trying to build this properly and avoid making things worse with another failed review request.

Thanks.

I ran meta ads by myself for my toothpaste company and burned about $683 with no conversions at all. I’m not sure what exactly went wrong. I got 43 add to carts but no purchases. Ive since changed a lot on my website because I was able to identify key conversion mistakes but because of the nature of my product does it make sense to switch to Google Ads? I know meta is great for visuals etc but the fact that i’m selling toothpaste isn’t it best to go where there’s already intent?

Hey guys, I have a roofing company client in Texas. They are small company that spends about 1k/month in ads. The performance has gone down the last few months.
March - 6 leads
April - 2 leads
May - nothing yet.

Clicks have not dropped, no garbage keywords, impression share remained somewhat steady. However, the top of page rate has gone down a little bit.

I am thinking it can be one of the following:

1. Competitors entered the market. Spending more budget to get the top of page rate.
2. Our mix of keywords + landing page doesn't work anymore. This is weird because performance had been steady for 6 months.
3. I made some slight changes to ad copy but they were small. i.e: Instead of "Free Inspection" I added "Get A Free Inspection".

Any thoughts on what could be hurting performance?

Lately I’ve been seeing more cases where Google Ads campaigns show decent click volume, but conversions don’t line up at all.

After checking traffic logs on a few sites, a surprising amount of traffic turned out to be automated or suspicious bot activity hitting landing pages repeatedly.

What made it harder to spot:

• CTR looked normal
• Bounce rates were inconsistent
• Sessions appeared “real” in analytics
• Ad spend kept climbing without matching revenue

In some cases, filtering and challenging suspicious traffic at the edge significantly cleaned up campaign data.

Curious if others here have noticed an increase in low-quality or bot-like traffic recently, especially on Meta + Google campaigns?

Is there anyone who has good command on attributing right traffic to right channel.