Friday, June 05, 2009

Inside AdWords: New Interface Thursdays: Exploring the Ads tab

Inside AdWords: New Interface Thursdays: Exploring the Ads tab
Well, I tried the new interface and due to multiple processing errors I meanwhile switched back to the old one, thanks G. :-) it is still available.
Working with Adwords-online this time, I found a strange limitation of maximum 50 ads in the same ad group. I believe it exists in both old and the new UI, seems that the limitation should be at the server side.

I just wanted to put in about 25 ads, each one delivered in 8 Google' banner formats - from 468x60 to 160x600. Yes, I wanted to put them all in the same adgroup but I could not do that because of this stupid 50-max limit.

Google forced me to open new ad groups in the same ad campaign (I never wanted that) and put my extra- banners there. I ended up with 3 ad groups instead of just one because of 50-ads max limitation. (3 but not 4 groups because not all the ads where delivered in all sizes).

Now, I have to manage separately these 3 ad groups - their keywords, bids etc. Obviously, this is not what I want to do - it wastes my time without any return.

So, dear Google, would you please remove this weird 50-max ads limit, letting me to do my job faster? I need it much more than WEB2-like new UI you guys have introduced. I do not say it is baaad, it is just still to young to work properly with all the AJAX involved. Is not it enough that Microsoft treat their users as testers, delivering them new OS that should never leave their lab, now Google is going the same way?