r/Google_Ads

I’ve been testing GPL-1 offer as an affiliate and need insight b/c the economics to collect data seem like it can run you 30k just for enough data to optimize towards . The bids are $10-$38 and want know anyone has success and does the economics worth it with small budget of 3k.

Does it make sense to run Google store visit ads for places where my product is stocked? And if so, any tips for set up?

Hi there! Can anyone tell which one is better - Stape or Tracklution?
I have zero code experience but what I see the Tracklution is not good as Stape. While Stape is a bit more difficult with installation.
May there are better alternatives?

Hi everyone, my campaign (Performance Max) is fully active, no issues with billing, and the status shows 100% optimization. What do you think has caused it to suddenly stop entering auctions entirely? Has anyone experienced Adwords completely freezing delivery rather than just fluctuating, and what is the best way to kickstart impressions again?

I've been running it with average success for over 2 months, its been building up well (until it just stopped a few days ago)

Conversion goals - campaign specific
Bidding - Maximize conversions
Customer acquisition - new and existing
Value Rule - No rules

Any suggestion would be most welcome

Hi everyone,

I’m completely new to Google Ads and could really use some honest advice from people who have actually been through this.

I own a local business and I’m thinking about starting Google Ads with a budget of around ₹10,000–₹15,000 per month. I’m not expecting miracles overnight—I mainly want to learn, generate some leads, and understand whether Google Ads can work for my business.

The thing is, one of my friends owns an IT agency, and he’s been telling me that Google Ads is extremely difficult to manage on your own, that beginners usually waste their money, and that I probably won’t get any results unless I hire an agency. While I understand he has experience, I also can’t tell whether he’s giving genuine advice or trying to convince me to become a client.

I’d actually like to try running the campaigns myself first so I can learn the basics before paying someone else. I know I’ll probably make mistakes, but that’s part of the learning process.

So I have a few questions:

Is ₹10k–₹15k/month a reasonable budget to start with for a local business?

Is it realistic for a beginner to learn Google Ads well enough to get decent results?

At what point does it make sense to hire an agency instead of managing it yourself?

If you were starting from scratch today, what would you do differently to avoid wasting money?

I’d really appreciate a reality check from people who have managed Google Ads themselves or worked with agencies. I’m looking for honest opinions rather than sales pitches.
Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I have been trying to set up google ads for my local start up tutoring business. I am having trouble running the ads. If anyone with experience can hop on a call with me, would be very much appreciated!

Hey guys, would you recommend running Google Ads to a landing page on the website that's also used for organic, or would you separate it and buy a different domain strictly for Google Ads?

I've seen agencies and freelancers use both strategies, but I never really thought about it until now that I'm learning about Ad rank scores.

What's the biggest Google Ads optimization you stopped doing because automation made it irrelevant?

We’re running a Manual CPC Google Ads campaign for IT services for businesses. It used to generate qualified leads every month, but recently conversions have dried up.

We still have more than 75% impression share, a CTR around 4%, and keep increasing bids on our top keywords to maintain visibility. However, many visitors now seem to bounce almost immediately, even from keywords that previously produced a strong ROAS.

Would testing Maximize Conversions help improve traffic quality and get performance back to where it was, or does this sound more like a search intent or landing page issue?

My main concern is that we only generate a small number of conversions per month, so I am worried Maximize Conversions may not have enough data to work effectively. At least, that is what I have heard.

Would it also be worth creating a branded search campaign so we consistently appear at the top above the organic results, or is that usually unnecessary for a business like this?

Hey guys

As our company's performance marketing manager left, I, the GTM engineer had to take over paid campaign management

I'm now familiar and okay with Meta campaigns but Google Ads are confusing

Any tips and tricks on how to start

I run regular checks with Claude and do it’s recommendations fixed the conversion tracking but still campaigns are saying limited by budget even they have 220$/day but i can't go over as the company has a budget

I own a small ad agency. We’ve been running Google Ads for a dozen or so clients for multiple years now. We use Google tag manager call tracking dynamic number insertion all kinds of fun stuff. I’m thinking about testing out an AI platform to let it run all of my ads for one of our customers. I’m extremely skittish. Please feel free to chime in and help me with my decision.

Do YT Paid campaigns give better conversions for app based marketing? If yes, then why so?
Can anyone help here?

I am running google ads for the towing business everything is working well. I have worked by myself in my Google ads career and didn't have anyone to consult. I learned from YouTube and chatgpt. so now I want to know what is a good and best ROAS for towing business?

I run a pre-owned iPhone business in South Africa and I'm struggling to get Meta Ads profitable.

I've tested both manual Sales campaigns and Advantage+, spending around R14k total. Overall the campaigns generated good engagement (strong CTR, lots of add-to-carts and checkouts), but only 6 sales, which makes me think the problem isn't getting traffic—it's the quality of the traffic.

My website is competitive for my market, I offer good pricing, free shipping, a 6-month warranty, 7-day returns, BNPL, real customer reviews, and I've tested the checkout myself, so I don't think there's an obvious trust or technical issue.

I'm now considering switching most of my budget to Google Search Ads.

My plan is:

- Only target very high-intent keywords.

- Include the price in the headline to filter out low-intent clicks.

- Use Manual CPC bidding.

- My keyword estimates are around R3–R10 per click, so with my budget I should be able to get around 40 highly targeted clicks per day.

I'm intentionally avoiding Shopping Ads because, with my limited budget, I want full control over which searches trigger my ads. I worry Shopping will be similar to Meta, where Google decides who sees the ads and burns through my budget too quickly.

Does this sound like a better strategy than continuing with Meta? Or does it sound like I'm misdiagnosing the problem?

Hey there! 👋 I need help with a Google Ad Grant activation request.

My client submitted an activation request through Google for Nonprofits in early May. We waited for 3 weeks a received a rejection notice - specifically for not meeting the website policy, having commercial content on our website.

We do sell industry-related training courses ($35 and $65; not expensive by any means), but the rest of our site is mission-focused and has free resources and professional networks.

After receiving the rejection, we made the following changes on our website and training course page:

1. Added Privacy Policy to the site footer
2. Added free resources on the landing page
3. Added a blurb mentioning that they’re a nonprofit and how the courses tie back to their mission and how they serve the public
4. Added more FAQ answers in the same style as point 3

The appeal was submitted in early June, and we waited another 3 weeks to hear back. I received a series of email updates yesterday.

Four emails were inviting us to four separate (different ad account IDs) Google Grant accounts. 3 out of 4 of the invite links worked, and I was able to log into all of them.

The next email we received was a rejection notice for the same reason as before. Normally, after receiving the invite we would have gotten an invite to connect the payment profile.

I confirmed that all 3 accounts were Grants showing as active, but I couldn’t save the payment profile information in the billing section of the accounts.

I’m honestly very confused and have never encountered this before in all my years of managing the Grant for clients. I’m sure that there must have been an error on Google’s side, since they created 3 accounts and then sent a rejection notice.

I’m at a loss of what to do now. I know Google Grant support is pretty abysmal. Do I:

A) Make more changes to the landing page in hopes that we get approved and wait another 3 weeks?

B) Try to launch campaigns in one of the ad accounts to see if it works?

C) Do nothing and try to get in touch with Google support?

Any guidance would be SUPER helpful! I’m curious if anyone has encountered a similar situation before: either receiving multiple invites and then a rejection and/or being disapproved for commercial content. For reference, I’ve had another nonprofit client with more expensive training courses get approved for the Grant no problem.

Thank you! 🙏

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We currently pay a management company a considerable amount to do so on our behalf, however, I would like to assume the responsibility myself and use these funds towards our cause.

I've taught myself a great deal and have a basic understanding, but feel like I could use some coaching to be truly confident.

Unfortunately, I've had the hardest time sourcing such help. I've sent a proposal to Tap Root, and am currently enrolled in Google's Immersion Program, but thus far, neither have proved helpful.

(A Google Ads Grant is a much different beast than a paid account, and works entirely differently since you're trying to maximize the 10k in ad spend that they give you)

TIA!

I created Google search ads probably a month ago. Initially, I added phrase match and exact match keywords but the ads didn't serve. So, I moved all of the keywords match type to phrase match and some to broad match type. Still it didn't serve. I tried following;

1. Increasing daily budget

2. Checking for restrictions or policy violations

3. Changing the bid strategy to Max clicks from conversions

4. Duplicating the campaign

5. Increasing the geo targeting from certain locations to the entire country

6. No negative keywords are added to the account. I removed them

I tried everything I could. After multiple attempts to contact the Google support team, now I am posting this question here for help from any expert out there.

Any help or support or way out to fix this would be appreciated. Thanks!

P.S.

Thanks 🙏 to each one of you who responded and were helpful. I was finally able to resolve this issue. Eventually, the security check was stuck with Google.Which they attended today, unfortunately so late.

We've got 4 Google Ads campaigns with pretty small budgets, around $10-15/day per campaign.

Initially, all of them were running on Maximize Clicks. One campaign started generating conversions consistently (40+ in 30d), so we switched it to Maximize Conversion Value. That ended up increasing conversions 4x.

Our second campaign had only around 18 conversions in the previous 30 days when I decided to make the same switch. I know Google generally recommends waiting until you have around 30 conversions/30d before using automated bidding like this, but I figured I'd test it anyway. Since switching, it's climbed to around 48 conversions over the last 30 days, so that seems to have paid off.

Now I'm wondering where the actual tipping point is.

Our third campaign is sitting at about 14 conversions over the last 30 days, and the fourth is around 10-11.

Has anyone had good results switching to Maximize Conversion Value this early, or is it usually better to wait until you're closer to the 30 conversion recommendation? I'm especially curious whether anyone has made the switch around the 10-15 conversion mark and how it turned out.

BTW Our conversions are either free signups or paid subscriptions, with subscriptions being worth roughly 5x more than signups