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Add me on SphinnJust a heads up it looks like almighty Adwords changed something.
When you create a new campaign, the default targeting is now United States AND Canada. I think it used to just be US, so now if you’re running a US only offer, make sure to un-check those bloody Canadians. Oh also…
Dear Google,
When I’ve spent 5 minutes writing ads, picking placements, and adding keywords, please don’t ask for my bid, and then when I click continue log me out of Adwords and log me back in. I lose everything I just did. And it happened to me about 5 times in the last hour. Plz fix this <3.
kthxbye,
uber
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Weird, mines always default Canada anyways so I always have to change it.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Hmm, same here. Annoying as f**k.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
ahha candians are great hihihi :) ( cause i am one ) but yeah adwords got some bugs lately i thing they are in a test mode
November 11th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
lol rofl
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
It has been doing this for a while now. It is really annoying to blow a bunch of clicks in canada for US only offers. I guess its googles way of getting SOMEONE to buy canadian clicks.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
yea i noticed that too – strange cause I had to uncheck it and I as like hmmmm
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I hate that shit. It logs me out all the time… glad to know it’s not just me.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
That’s happened to me before as well. I can’t stand it when any site logs me out. You’d think sites like Adwords could do better.
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
i didnt notice that… thanks for the heads up…;-)
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Thanks for the heads up.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
No shit? Bastards. Thanks man.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
It’s always satisfying as a web developer myself that even the big boys with near unlimited resources get it wrong some times ;)
October 24th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Still defaults to UK for me…
October 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Writing a campaign in AdWords makes me feel like I’m at TicketMaster.com filling out my contact info for an exclusive concert or something. Rushing through to make sure I don’t lose my work (or tickets).
October 24th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
go leafs go! lol
October 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Don’t you just wish they had REAL competition….
October 24th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Anyone else having problems getting imps with adwords? What do clicks usually run for myspace? Bidding 1.30 as of right now. Wonder if myspace manually reviews adwords ads or regulates somehow.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Don’t worry I’m having trouble with adword’s as well say i reached my daily limit when i haven’t even gotten any traffic gotta move on to yahoo ads, adcenter
October 25th, 2008 at 8:51 am
google surely cares a lot bout uber…
October 25th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Thanks for the heads up! I will make sure to double check my next submissions. Does this means that it changes all the ones before?
October 25th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Are you using the web interface? Why not just use adwords editor – no timeout issues there.
October 26th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
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October 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
“Bloody Canadians”? I take offense to that and will raise you with “ignorant Americans”. :D
October 28th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Yo! Men, you cool!
October 28th, 2008 at 10:36 am
google surely cares a lot bout uber…
October 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am
%
October 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I used to get really annoyed typing in great long updates in Adwords to get that darn “your changes were not process, we had a confilct” message.
I switched to Adwords Editor and life had been very happy since! :)
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Thanks for pointing out this handy application. Slick!
October 29th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Google isn’t the only site to log people off after they’ve completed just about everything… though, it does piss me the hell off!
Oh, and LOL on “Bloody Canadians.” But they get free health care…
Jay
October 29th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Canada is included now, too? That’s interesting. Sorry to hear about the Google bug. That’s so frustrating. Hopefully it gets worked out for you. Good luck!
October 31st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
thanks for ur short answer, i believe we need more information abt adword.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I actually laughed at that comment… I think Digital Point has found your blog, Paul…
November 1st, 2008 at 5:34 am
The Canada change is interesting. I can see the benefit for Google: people will more often include Canada, which allows for more ads to be displayed and Google will make more money. I wonder if there is a benefit for the advertisers like us. Maybe people who would naturally include the United States would also naturally include Canada, so this saves the advertisers a little time (a few seconds) per campaign.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Oh man thanks for the info. Well I just entered adword campagin for my sites and this information really helps me.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 am
Did adwords ever fix this for ya let me know bro!
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
Thanks for the heads up bro :D
November 5th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Thank tpu man I thought tha only I have such problems
November 8th, 2008 at 3:29 am
How can you still be able to launch new campaigns?
I have 25 campaigns oin my adwords account all targeted to different areas. When I want to launch a new campaign I have to create a new set of adgroups in a canmpaign thats already existing because 25 campaigns seems to be the limit…
How do you work around this?
Erika
November 16th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Thanks for the heads up!
November 20th, 2008 at 6:06 am
This is typical of google, i wonder how much it increased there daily revenues from people not noticing.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hmmm very sneaky. Lucky for me Canadians are welcome on my site lol
November 30th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Thanks for the info. Luckily canadians carry american cash so it doesnt affect me lol
December 6th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
and newbies make sure that the content network is off…I made that mistake before..
December 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
i didnt notice that… thanks for the heads up…;-)
December 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Thanks for this, although I personly prefer bidvertiser.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 am
Well i think the us and canada will soon become one market.
Thanks for the heads up
August 18th, 2009 at 6:52 am
I setup an Adwords campaign and pick my keywords. But I DON’T want to pick keywords, I just want to target a website on the content network. How do I do this? Do I just delete my keywords, and also I don’t want to appear on SERPS pages.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:53 am
You can do it with Placement targeting, where you just need to find out the relevant website to your targeted ads and go live with. No need of any keywords because it works more on the basics of Contextual advertising.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Are you SURE they arnt already running. If you go into an adgroup and hover your pointer over the magnifying glass it will tell you.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Google adwords is an advertisement techniqe where you can register an account to google, and after successfull resgistation they will give a pice of html code to put in your website.