(PS. Do we need a new thread soon? This one is getting rather large)I tend to agree, but have always highly valued the grass-roots nature of these threads - i.e. that they have been started by members other than myself. I really like what that says.
(Cough) So if there are any volunteers out there... ;)
AWA
Ok, I'll jump in.
Maybe it's me, but it seems like I'm getting more and more of these boxes popping up warning about secure and non-secure items, particularly in the Campaign Settings area. I can't edit a lot of those things in the Editor, so it's *really* annoying to have to keep clicking out of that box. Google, UR DOIN IT WRONG.
Also, while I was going through yet again unchecking boxes for Automatic Match (hint hint) I seem to get tons and tons of pink boxes saying my changes had not taken effect. Seemed to happen more the faster I got in doing these edits.
More of these campaign level options NEED to be available in the next version of the AdWords Editor. *please*.
I'm just now getting these posts into the Advertiser Feedback Report that'll go out in about six or seven hours.
Still plenty of time for additional feedback - so feel free.
Thanks!
AWA
Still about five hours until the report is sent to a lot of interested folks here at Google, so late-breaking additions to this thread are most welcome from any and all. There is lots of space left in the report, given that moderngamer's suggest was particularly brief!
Thanks - and best to you all.
AWA
It was the best way to control costs when there was a huge gap between Max CPC and Actual CPC. Having to bid $8 to pay $2.25, and then $10 to pay $2.50 is too large of a risk threshold.
At this moment ad group's performance statistics, such as impressions, conversions and clicks, are not transferred to the new location.
2. Option to change the landing URL without loosing all the data such as impressions, conversions and clicks.
Sometimes I need to add (or change) an extra paramater to the landing URL while the landingpage, text in the ad and display URL remains the same. At this moment Adwords will see this as an complete new ad.
[edited by: Dlocks at 3:05 pm (utc) on Jan. 18, 2009]
Traffic from Google search partners converts less then traffic from Google Search. When traffic converts less you would like to make lower bids. (same as with the content network where you can make a separate bid)
[edited by: Dlocks at 9:20 am (utc) on Jan. 20, 2009]
Anyway, the latest posts are now included and there is plenty of time (and room in the report) for additional feeback - before it goes out on Thursday evening.
Thanks in advance!
AWA
A feature I would like to see is the option to change currency. It would obviously need to update all your bids.
At the moment, I am being penalised for being an early customer as credit card companies tend to charge a fee for currency conversion. It also means what I pay actually varies according to conversion rates at the time the card is charged.
I could set up a UK Pounds account but I would lose all my keyword and advert history which again would be unfair especially as I had to put all my keywords and adverts in again when you went over to PPC.
Hope this isn't too late!
Not too late at all PCInk - the report goes out in about, oh, 13 hours or so. Thanks for the post. :)
I usually don't comment or editorialize on ideas in this thread, but I do have a follow up question for you - to help me to present the idea more accurately.
So. Would this feature still be useful to you if it applied only from the moment you changed the setting, forward?
Or would you need for it to also change everything back to the beginning of the account history, including billing history, past invoices, etc - taking into account currency conversion rates, etc.?
I think you can see where I am going with this - it is not nearly as straightforward as one might imagine at first. But, I'm really curious: In your opinion, would it be enough to apply only from the moment the the change was implemented in all servers worldwide, onwards - changing nothing that had already occurred?
AWA
PCInk - I'll include your idea, verbatim, whether you post again or not before the report goes out. Still, I am curious about your opinion on my question just above.
Thanks in advance!
AWA
Now the catch is i can see that search partner of my Few adgroup are eating cost but i can disable search partners only at campaign level not at adgroup level.
So I think this feature could be handy.
Thanks
I see what you mean about the billing history. However you see fit or easiest for the programmers I guess. Personally, I would even sacrifice access to older billing information as long as you made this clear before I changed currency. Then, I could print anything I need in $ and then swap my account to £.
My main concern was that keeping the click-through history, quality-scores and of course the whole advert campaigns in tact.
Now the catch is i can see that search partner of my Few adgroup are eating cost but i can disable search partners only at campaign level not at adgroup level.I have the same problem. Unfortunatly the only option is to disable Search Partners for the whole campaign.
One other option would be making a new campaign and move the ad groups with good Search Partners results into that ad group. However, then you will loose the performance statistics, such as impressions, conversions and clicks so that is not a good solution.
In order to use Search Partners efficiently we need:
- Option to disable Search Partners on an ad group level.
- And/or separate bidding option for Google Search Partners on an ad group level.
- And/or option to move adgroup X from campaign one to campaign two. Including performance statistics.
Would really like to see "Avg. Position" for each ad on the Ad Variations tab.
I have been putting this onto my "refresh" lists for some time. I would also add the average cost per click for ads, too.
With Avg. Position and Avg. CPC data for ads, AdWords would be much better as it would allow us to focus onto combined "keyword+ad" performance, rather than somewhat distracting separated view onto both.
Since the tremendous weight has been put onto ads themselves, these two parameters have become a must.
How about being able to have your adsense earnings posted to your adwords account ?
Are you talking about using AdSense income to pay for AdWords (which has been requested before) or something else?
I have a suggestion which I also made to AdWordsProSarah on twitter - and it's good not just for AdWords but for all Google entities that offer webinars - when the confirmation and reminder notices are mailed out, why not include a button that would add the event to the users' Google Calendar? If I can code one on my events site, you guys should be able to figure out how to drop it in an email (ork ork)
Still plenty of time for more - about nine hours to be more precise. I'd be pleased to add any late breaking additions to the report, and I will check back at least once before sending.
I have a suggestion which I also made to AdWordsProSarah...
Hey, I know Sarah! She's awesome. :)
AWA
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This {query} tag would be equivalent to the MSN tag {QueryString} and the Yahoo tag {YSMRAW}.
I know we can pull the raw queries from an adwords report, but this data set is not complete and it makes it hard for us to relate it to conversion data.
There are roughly 26 hours until the Advertiser Feedback Report goes out - and I will happily include any ideas posted here before then. :)
AWA
More control over time/budget settings.
We have a client who targets various different countries with his account. We would like to be able to set each campaign it's own time zone so we can accurately set times for the budget without having to create 2 campaigns, work out the time differences and use the ad scheduler to set it up.
We have another situation where clients want to spend x on Mon & Tues, Y on wed-Fri & Z on weekends.
We have to create additional campaigns to handle the clients daily budget requests. Why not let us set daily budgets for each day of the week? It is more work for us and also has a negative effect on the campaigns as they are taking longer to build up historical data individually.
I did have more for you, but I've completely forgotten what they were now. I'll come back later when I remember what they were.
Cheers
I did have more for you, but I've completely forgotten what they were now. I'll come back later when I remember what they were.
I sure know how that works!
I'll check back at least one more time just before I send the report (another 3 to 4 hours, I'd estimate) to see if any of them suddenly came to the surface.
And, as my Southern friend (the one with multiple Masters Degrees) used to say, "the resta all y'all" are welcome to post the features you'd like to see, too, of course. :)
Thanks in advance.
AWA
It would be really nice if you could expand the reports suite to let MCC managers send customised account reports to clients, similar to the sort of monthly reports agencies send to their clients, in PDF format.
Maybe let us include company logo etc on them. Still have the Google branding there, of course.
A few different design templates and give us the ability to choose things like, top keywords (clicks, impressions, conversions etc), top ads, etc.
It would also be really nice if it could automatically compare this to a previous date range and display the differences between them.
I know it's a really big ask, but it'd be very helpful.
Cheers buddy
I just remembered one of them AWA...
Excellent! Thanks briggidere. :)
I am actually running behind, and likely to be here another half hour at least. So if another one occurs to you...
Thanks again,
AWA
The Advertiser Feedback Report goes out in about six hours, and ideas/feature requests/etc. are most welcome from one and all.
I'll check back at least once before the report goes out.
Thanks in advance,
AWA
