Lately I've been making a lot of stupid mistakes

[sknydave]

Lately I've been screwing up bid amounts or my most recent stroke of genius, I filled in the url as http://http://url.com and of course all the clicks went to nowheresville.


sigh.. I hate it when my fuckups cost me money.

 

[DruSam]

I double check religiously when setting up campaigns now. i've had my fair share of money lost over stupid mistakes. Especially with overture.

 

[gdubs12345]

for pretty much every campaign in adcenter i forget to remove the http://.
so i get http://http://mysite.com
if they were smart they would just remove it like they do in adwords, but theyre not

 

[Juicify]

for pretty much every campaign in adcenter i forget to remove the http://.
so i get http://http://mysite.com
if they were smart they would just remove it like they do in adwords, but theyre not

But they don't accept domains typed that way anyway. I got an email telling me to correct it.

 

[Kurt Maine]

Happens to everyone man. I bet you'll never do it again though, now move on make up for your mistake

 

[dastuff]

Bad times.. I've made stupid little mistakes..

My feelings towards them is I won't make the same mistake twice.. and there can only be so many stupid things i can do before i learn it all.

 

[sknydave]

But they don't accept domains typed that way anyway. I got an email telling me to correct it.

Well this one slipped through the cracks because it went live and cost me some money :error:

 

[fenryr]

What also sucks is when you enter $3.5 instead of $0.35 for CPC

I got a lot of traffic though...:crap:

 

[cyberworkspace]

What also sucks is when you enter $3.5 instead of $0.35 for CPC

I got a lot of traffic though...:crap:

well, just today i made my fucking noob mistake

i redirect all target-url's from adwords via a .php-script. so, usually i setup the redirections in my script and then maintain my adgroups.

this time though, i forgot to maintain my script beforehand, edited my campaigns and found out an hour later that none of the clicks could have found its target

the darn thing is, that i could have found out about it pretty much earlier. each and every time i did setup a new adgroup, google suggested "parsing error" as the keyword for my landing page. HAHAHA.

 

[gdubs12345]

What also sucks is when you enter $3.5 instead of $0.35 for CPC

I got a lot of traffic though...:crap:

I did that once. i was spending $5.00 per click (instead of.50) on ringtone traffic and i put the wrong url in my ad. So i spent $500 and got no traffc

 

[sknydave]

One thing I started doing after making some of these mistakes was setting a low spend limit at first. I'll put something small like 10 dollars just in case I screw something up I wont end up losing a lot of money. After everything is fine I will increase the spend limit. The only downside to this is I've noticed my campaigns take FOREVER to be approved.

 

[Phazar]

on firefox not putting the domain extension when typing in URl and hitting enter

 

[aeiouy]

Its okay I once uploaded a keyword sheet to Yahoo! where I dragged the bid prices, and they incremented by a dollar. I had like 800 keywords, some keywords had $800+ bids.

I actually ended up paying $200 for 4 bids. Which means someone else had to be bidding like 49.99 for the same keyword.

 

[Jon]

Well, sometimes learning the hard way is the best way to learn. I can bet you won't make that type of mistake ever again, and if anything will warn others on making it too.

 

[ImagesAndWords]

I second what Jon says... learning from mistakes is the best way. Frustrating? Yes. Potentially expensive? Yes. But in the long term - you will still be a winner!

My most recent mistake: Not checking up on my arbi sites often enough. Turns out one of my pages were showing PSA ads.. D'oh!

 

[fenryr]

I did that once. i was spending $5.00 per click (instead of.50) on ringtone traffic and i put the wrong url in my ad. So i spent $500 and got no traffc

lol damn, that's even more than i lost :crap: