Anyone else being forced into the new GUI?
I have 4 gigs of ram, this is crazy slow.
UPDATE: The issue is IE8. Apparently the new interface runs even slower in IE8 instead of firefox.
It's great to know that someone from google is listening. If I could pause my campaigns and still feed my family I'd do it in a second.
Because someone is listening I'm going to list some of the issues I can remember.
-The biggest is speed. It's incredibly slow.
-Multiple "Unresponsive Script" messages.
-About half the time...nothing I do will get the columns to fit my screen.
-A significant amount of time the bid changes I make don't take. This even happens when the inane message at the top of the screen assures me my changes have been saved. Tonight it took nearly 20 minutes to edit bids on an adgroup with 46 keywords. I finally ended up doing it one by one.
-When I edit all keywords in an adgroup by checking of the checkbox at the upper right, I get every column imaginable except CTR. In my system I can't do bidding without CTR in most of my adgroups. Because of this I can't use Editor as a work around as there is not CTR data there.
Actually there is a dropdown in the "edit screen" to customize columns, but it doesn't actually work. When you make changes it removes you from the edit screen.
This is all I can remember at this moment. There are a few ideas in the new interface that are good. But nothing makes up for the lack of speed.
IMO Google revolutionized the internet by making it easy to use. This product is so UNGOOGLE in that way.
I'm embarrassed to admit that ALL my clients use Google exclusively. Very few have the budgets to afford all the clicks they need. I've pushed them to use Google exclusively because even though clicks are more expensive...management fees are a significant cost. The embarrassing part is that I know deep down part of the reason I push them in that direction is (was) the ease of use. Not the most professional I admit but it is what it is. If these issues aren't resolved...either with the old interface or some other way...next year budgets are going to be assigned by market share. Yahoo/Bing will get whatever percent their marketshare dictates.
Harv
Not that I don't agree with what you say. But adCenter is worse.
Maybe that's a good thing, now I spend less time and money on Adwords because the new interface is giving me a severe headache.
Save a ton of money and am diverting them to other traffic channels and getting better results.
Always look on the bright side of life :)
Forced to switch today. Initial impressions are OK but for the life of me I can't find the section which used to let you specify which page types you didn't want your content ads appearing on (e.g. error pages, forums, video sharing sites etc.) Can anyone point me in the right direction? TIA!
I sure wish they wouldn't bury that one like they do (grumble grumble)
Go up to to Tools, and then More Tools, and there's the old Tools page with Site and Category Exclusion.
At this point, really specific feedback about things that are not working well for you would be very helpful. Or, if there are things that you find really useful, but which could be incrementally improved the team would like to hear those as well.
Also, if there is anything that the Editorial Team should know about the content related to the new UI in the AdWords Help Center, please let me know.
In another thread eWhisper and netmeg commented on the need to update the Learning Center and the Google Advertising Professsionals exam, and work is underway to do just that. Specific comments in this regard are welcome as well.
Or anything else related to the new UI, for that matter. ;)
Thanks in advance.
AWA
When you add keywords from the new Search Query tool you have to add quotes or parens yourself to get phrase or exact match. There's a match type button down there that LOOKS like it supposed to do that for you but it doesn't.
Many times I make bid changes in the batch format, it tells me they are saved, but they aren't.
The feature in the keyword tool where you could work off existing keywords is gone.
When you go into the keyword tool the new feature that lets you put keywords into ANY adgroup doesn't default to the adgroup you just came from. If you don't remember that you end up adding keywords into the wrong ad group.
I constantly get "unresponsive script" messages.
The user feedback feature is very slow.
The whole thing is just so slow. All the new ideas are great, but the speed is the overriding factor. I find at times the speed is tolerable (barely) and at other times it is atrocious.
I'm on a Mac using the latest version of Firefox.
A Google tech told me to switch to Chrome. She swore to me it was available for Mac. When I google it I get a message telling me to sign up for email to notify me when it will be ready for Mac.
This does not relate to the interface but Google as a whole:
We do travel advertising exclusively. For some reason that I cannot comprehend...if you exclude a geographic region it treats it like a NEGATIVE keyword. We have a resort in Hawaii. We've ELIMINATED hawaii from the geotargeting because click budgets are limited and people coming to the resort hawaii spend way less than those from the mainland. Because I've eliminated hawaii I can't get any impressions on keyword like (Brand name) Hawaii. Ridiculous.
Also we have a Florida resort. They can't sell ANY rooms to folks from outside of florida in the summer. 100% of conversions in the last two months have come from within 50 miles. Yet because my keywords are geospecific Google serves them outside of my Geotargeting costing me money and ROI.
That's all I can think of at this moment.
That'll help to fill things out very nicely in the WebmasterWorld section of the report. :)
AWA
AWA
I've still got to say though the old interface was a lot better.
1: there is no way to bulk upload adjustments to keyword bid rates. You can bulk load new terms in the spreadsheet, but as far as I could figure out, there is no way to bulk change bids the way we use to be able to with the keyword upload box.
A great way to fix this would be to restore the functionality of the kw upload box so that it recognized the old format where we could add terms like such...
"keyword phrase1" ** bid ** destination_url1
[keyword phrase2] ** bid ** destination_url2
2: both the spreadsheet and the download options crash if the keyword list is too big. Downloading data is a big deal for me, and I run large campaigns.
