Rob Watson

Father to 2. Husband to 1. Marketing friend to online shop keepers. Heavy dabbler with Google Ads and suffering from a healthy obsession with Zombies.

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@mr_govindsingh @GoogleAds same here

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

is this working for you now?

I've not been able to update my campaigns all afternoon

[Jamie @JamieDigitall]

Happy Friday. Is Google Ads down for anyone else?

#ppcchat

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@JamieDigitall same - noticed it a few hours ago and figured it was google telling me to break for lunch - still getting the same message though

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

Can we exclude Google Vignette ads?

PMax placement reports are showing impressions from a lot of poor-quality GDN sites - most of which are using vignette ads.

This can't be good for users or advertisers. #ppcchat

[Blexb @blexbofficial]

🔔 #ClickCeasedown
Users indicate https://t.co/VmN4EKrQzf is down or having problems since 2023-01-18 18:56:37 PST.
Live Status: https://t.co/sejDHqrNo9
Details: https://t.co/kzwvcoOXDa
If you are also affected, please RT.
#ClickCeaseoutage #ClickCease

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@chi9465 @ClickCease sounds like the same issue. we turned clickcease off yesterday and will keep it off until we're confident it's working properly again. i have 2 clients using this and both lost business yesterday. they handling their maintenance very badly

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

any @clickcease users found their client's google ads campaigns have stopped working? this is what I get when I click on client's ad... #ppcchat

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@ClickCease has your service stopped my client's google ads from working? I click on their ads and get your URL with a Service unavailable message

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@hometree_uk are you guys answering phone calls today? 45 minutes on hold feels excessive

[Anu Adegbola aka PPC Live founder 🎙️🗣️ @TheMarketingAnu]

Thanks for a great talk @robpwatson!
Revenue is great (ROAS) - profit is better (ROI)! #BrightonSEO @brightonseo

[Anna Corbett @AnnaAppenzeller]

! @robpwatson showing off some very clever stuff on how to use ROI to evaluate and optimise your ad campaign at #SearchAdvertisingShow. Make sure to check out his deck if you’ve missed it! #BrightonSEO

[tor seacombe @torseacombe]

First speaker at Search Advertising Show @robpwatson kicking us of for #brightonSEO Fringe.

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

Q: Landing page reports in Smart shopping - do clicks on homepage come from the GDN? #PPCChat

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

Just 7 more days before i'm heading back to Brighton for #searchadvertisingshow and #brightonseo
It'll be my 4th time talking there - always such a great event

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@GollyJelly @CHLEGR Got this email update from google 8hrs ago

Between August 20th, 2021 and August 24th, 2021 a technical issue temporarily prevented some products from being served to shoppers on Shopping Ads. As a result, impressions and clicks for some of your products may have been impacted.

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

hey - i'm seeing 70% drops in google shopping impressions from yesterday morning - it's affecting about half my clients - all different GMC accounts & 2 different MCCs - anyone else seeing similar? Google support isn't much help! #ppcchat

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@TheMarketingAnu yes! I'm just getting a "something went wrong" message. it was like this around this time yesterday too

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@TheMarketingAnu @brightonseo hey Anu - looks we're talking at the same event again! looking forward to seeing you there :)

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@GollyJelly @CHLEGR its' definitely a lot better, but still feels like it's not totally back to normal. I've been adding a few seasonality adjusters to boost bids today to help make up ground!

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@CHLEGR @GollyJelly that's good to hear. some progress! one of my clients is with both Google and Comlyn CSS - their comlyn ads kept running while the google ones struggled. So I've got 2 other clients setup on comlyn today as it's free. now waiting for the google review as it's a new GMC

[Rob Watson @robpwatson]

@CHLEGR @GollyJelly client sent me this reddit link - looks like someones had feedback from a google rep that it is a known issue https://t.co/udFTIxChqi