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After Shock Media · 10-24-2007, 12:17 PM

Anyone else ever have an issue where you pause an add campaign and then out of the blue a few months latter you get an email along the lines of "you should increase your ad budget by x amount of cash because you have used your maximum per day for the past 15 days?

So then I log in and discover it appears my ads had to have gotten turned back on about 3 months ago that had been paused way back then. So needless to say it has been using its max for the past 100 days or so and there is a good sized bill sitting there.

First why the email now when I apparently had been using the max for way longer than 15 days. Most importantly why and how in the fuck do these ads get turned on again?

SCORE Ralph · 10-24-2007, 12:39 PM

I have heard from a few affiliates that are having this problem as well as having their ads showing up on 'content match' when they specifically set them to not show as 'content match'

HomerSimpson · 10-24-2007, 01:29 PM

G**gle is ripping you off

After Shock Media · 10-24-2007, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerSimpson

G**gle is ripping you off

Um I figured that out.
First time I have gotten plugged in the ass over a seasonal ad.

d-null · 10-24-2007, 03:02 PM

that's f-ed up

GrouchyAdmin · 10-24-2007, 03:05 PM

Google learned how to have these 'accidents' from AdBrite.

xmas13 · 10-24-2007, 04:21 PM

You should have bought GOOG stock

After Shock Media · 10-24-2007, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by xmas13

You should have bought GOOG stock

I have some, they just managed to steal a couple shares back.

d-null · 10-24-2007, 08:27 PM

WTF! IS RIGHT!!

I just looked at my adword account that I haven't used in months, and it shows 9000 ad impressions today?? I have no funds in the account, and haven't turned anything on or touched anything in months.

Is google's auditing software that fucked up?

it shows 1 click on 9000 impressions today, which is fucked up in itself.

papill0n · 10-24-2007, 08:29 PM

something is not right there thats for sure

pixiewillow · 10-24-2007, 08:31 PM

weird, I have never had that happen before

2012 · 10-24-2007, 08:33 PM

they charged me a bunch of hits "keywords" I didn't pay for. and credited me later ... you have to monitor your shit daily

even though thats impossible sometimes..

After Shock Media · 10-24-2007, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by fartfly

they charged me a bunch of hits "keywords" I didn't pay for. and credited me later ... you have to monitor your shit daily

even though thats impossible sometimes..

Why in the living hell should I have to log into google every single day for an add campaign I run seasonally? That makes zero fucking sense. I mean if you turn something off it should um stay off by default no? Then if they need to do some sort of odd fucking reboot or whatever that could cause it, maybe have it return ads to off and not on by default if thats the case. Hell I have no idea. I just need to vent and wait until sometime tomorrow when they claim they will respond and before I explain I will charge that shit back.

d-null · 10-25-2007, 12:16 AM

keep us posted in this thread on what they say

makes you wonder how the company that runs the whole internet can do that right when this kind of strange stuff happens, I always thought the whole adwords system is really clunky and the interfaces for adwords and adsense seem a little patchy

Vick! · 10-25-2007, 02:43 AM

It never happened to me, but I have heard a couple other people complaining. It sucks, anyways.

After Shock Media · 10-25-2007, 01:10 PM

Return email - Sorry for the inconvenience...yes we see that you paused ad XXXXX on June 23rd....blah blah.. then you turned it back on a few minutes latter.

blah blah blah hope to do more business with you... blah blah blah oh here is how you pause an ad... no shit really?

Vick! · 10-25-2007, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

then you turned it back on a few minutes latter.

fuckers ..

10-25-2007, 02:02 PM

Adsense stats have been fucked for a few days as well. Not showing channel data for some reason.

Subway · 10-25-2007, 02:46 PM

I got the same problem, i thought maybe my campaign was still running

$ 150 gone i guess ?

GatorB · 10-25-2007, 02:54 PM

To be honest if you're retarded enough not to monitor your adwords account for weeks or months at a time you almost deserve to get fucked over.

DamageX · 10-25-2007, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by GatorB

To be honest if you're retarded enough not to monitor your adwords account for weeks or months at a time you almost deserve to get fucked over.

To be honest, if you're retarded enough not to have a solid grasp of the English language then you shouldn't post. You obviously missed the part where he said it was a SEASONAL ad.

Furious_Male · 10-25-2007, 04:02 PM

Sorry to hear that happened to you. I haven't seen anything like that before with my account.

I do track my adwords account in stats remote so I would catch an increased spend like that. If you use stats remote be sure to add it so you can watch it on a regular basis.

After Shock Media · 10-25-2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DamageX

To be honest, if you're retarded enough not to have a solid grasp of the English language then you shouldn't post. You obviously missed the part where he said it was a SEASONAL ad.

Thanks for re explaining that. I have a few small seasonal ads I do. I have never had an issue like this pop up. I really do not use adwords in adult much at all anymore. So I tinkered with a few seasonal mainstream campaigns.

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Originally Posted by Furious_Male

Sorry to hear that happened to you. I haven't seen anything like that before with my account.

I do track my adwords account in stats remote so I would catch an increased spend like that. If you use stats remote be sure to add it so you can watch it on a regular basis.

Honestly never knew stats remote covered adwords, does it also cover any or most mainstream sponsors too? You never see that mentioned around here or other places much it seems. (Yes I lurk at many boards).

I will bug them about it until they either credit my account or show me how I somehow turned it back on by turning it off and loging out.

J B · 10-25-2007, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Honestly never knew stats remote covered adwords, does it also cover any or most mainstream sponsors too? You never see that mentioned around here or other places much it seems. (Yes I lurk at many boards).

We've been supporting AdWords, Adsense and many others for years

You can find all supported programs here:
http://www.statsremote.com/programs.php

One of the reasons StatsRemote was developed was to track the stats of ppcse. Back in 2001 I was spending $50K+ on ppcse traffic per month and it was crucial to monitor the traffic.

BTW it happened to me several times already that a paused campaign in AdWords was somhow reactivated automatically and it also happened that our ads were shown on content match eventhough we had unchecked that option. We also had problems with other settings (language, regions, etc.) in the past but AFAIK none of these errors happened recently anymore. The last time I remember was last year.

After Shock Media · 10-25-2007, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by J B

We've been supporting AdWords, Adsense and many others for years

You can find all supported programs here:
http://www.statsremote.com/programs.php

One of the reasons StatsRemote was developed was to track the stats of ppcse. Back in 2001 I was spending $50K+ on ppcse traffic per month and it was crucial to monitor the traffic.

BTW it happened to me several times already that a paused campaign in AdWords was somhow reactivated automatically and it also happened that our ads were shown on content match eventhough we had unchecked that option. We also had problems with other settings (language, regions, etc.) in the past but AFAIK none of these errors happened recently anymore. The last time I remember was last year.

Good to know on the first part, and as I suspected I was sure others would speak out about strangeness happening in the past or currently. It is software after all and it does have glitches. Or at least every piece of software I have ever owned has.

I will really think of picking up stats remote before I play with any more PPC.

J B · 10-25-2007, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Good to know on the first part, and as I suspected I was sure others would speak out about strangeness happening in the past or currently. It is software after all and it does have glitches. Or at least every piece of software I have ever owned has.

I will really think of picking up stats remote before I play with any more PPC.

You've got mail... let me know what you think and/or if you need anything

After Shock Media · 10-25-2007, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by J B

You've got mail... let me know what you think and/or if you need anything

Well damn wasnt expecting that. Saw email before post so I went clicked the billing link so I could see how much I should pay you all cause I was not looking for charity. Though one opps like I said about software. statsremote.com/clients Problem with connection to MySQL: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

J B · 10-25-2007, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Well damn wasnt expecting that. Saw email before post so I went clicked the billing link so I could see how much I should pay you all cause I was not looking for charity. Though one opps like I said about software. statsremote.com/clients Problem with connection to MySQL: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

No charity, just a free trial until the end of the month

As for the error you got... I just checked and everything looks fine from here. Do you still get the error?

After Shock Media · 10-25-2007, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by J B

No charity, just a free trial until the end of the month

As for the error you got... I just checked and everything looks fine from here. Do you still get the error?

Working fine now.

Ok guess I will check this out sooner than expected. Suppose I can plug in my own sites for now and see how it runs.

J B · 10-25-2007, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Working fine now.

Ok guess I will check this out sooner than expected. Suppose I can plug in my own sites for now and see how it runs.

It's the full version... you can add all your affiliate programs and ppcse

10-24-2007, 12:17 PM	#1
After Shock Media It's coming look busy Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". Posts: 35,299	Adwords - WTF? Anyone else ever have an issue where you pause an add campaign and then out of the blue a few months latter you get an email along the lines of "you should increase your ad budget by x amount of cash because you have used your maximum per day for the past 15 days? So then I log in and discover it appears my ads had to have gotten turned back on about 3 months ago that had been paused way back then. So needless to say it has been using its max for the past 100 days or so and there is a good sized bill sitting there. First why the email now when I apparently had been using the max for way longer than 15 days. Most importantly why and how in the fuck do these ads get turned on again? __________________ [email protected] ICQ:135982156 AIM: Aftershockmed1a MSN: [email protected]

10-24-2007, 12:39 PM	#2
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10-24-2007, 03:05 PM	#6
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10-24-2007, 04:21 PM	#7
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10-24-2007, 08:27 PM	#9
d-null . . . Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY Posts: 13,724	WTF! IS RIGHT!! I just looked at my adword account that I haven't used in months, and it shows 9000 ad impressions today?? I have no funds in the account, and haven't turned anything on or touched anything in months. Is google's auditing software that fucked up? it shows 1 click on 9000 impressions today, which is fucked up in itself. __________________ __________________ Looking for a custom TUBE SCRIPT that supports massive traffic, load balancing, billing support, and h264 encoding? Hit up Konrad! Looking for designs for your websites or custom tubesite design? Hit up Zuzana Designs Check out the #1 WordPress SEO Plugin: CyberSEO Suite

10-24-2007, 08:29 PM	#10
papill0n Unregistered Abuser Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 15,547	something is not right there thats for sure

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10-24-2007, 08:33 PM	#12
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10-25-2007, 12:16 AM	#14
d-null . . . Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY Posts: 13,724	keep us posted in this thread on what they say makes you wonder how the company that runs the whole internet can do that right when this kind of strange stuff happens, I always thought the whole adwords system is really clunky and the interfaces for adwords and adsense seem a little patchy __________________ __________________ Looking for a custom TUBE SCRIPT that supports massive traffic, load balancing, billing support, and h264 encoding? Hit up Konrad! Looking for designs for your websites or custom tubesite design? Hit up Zuzana Designs Check out the #1 WordPress SEO Plugin: CyberSEO Suite

10-25-2007, 02:43 AM	#15
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10-25-2007, 01:10 PM	#16
After Shock Media It's coming look busy Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". Posts: 35,299	Return email - Sorry for the inconvenience...yes we see that you paused ad XXXXX on June 23rd....blah blah.. then you turned it back on a few minutes latter. blah blah blah hope to do more business with you... blah blah blah oh here is how you pause an ad... no shit really? __________________ [email protected] ICQ:135982156 AIM: Aftershockmed1a MSN: [email protected]

10-25-2007, 02:02 PM	#18
evildick Guest Posts: n/a	Adsense stats have been fucked for a few days as well. Not showing channel data for some reason.

10-25-2007, 02:46 PM	#19
Subway Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Here Posts: 584	I got the same problem, i thought maybe my campaign was still running $ 150 gone i guess ?

10-25-2007, 02:54 PM	#20
GatorB The Demon & 12clicks Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: SallyRand is a FAGGOT Posts: 18,208	To be honest if you're retarded enough not to monitor your adwords account for weeks or months at a time you almost deserve to get fucked over.

10-25-2007, 04:02 PM	#22
Furious_Male Doing the grind since 99 Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Buffalo NY Posts: 16,883	Sorry to hear that happened to you. I haven't seen anything like that before with my account. I do track my adwords account in stats remote so I would catch an increased spend like that. If you use stats remote be sure to add it so you can watch it on a regular basis. __________________ Living in Virtual Reality Contact: Email (preferred): furiousmale .at. gmail - Skype: live:shanedws