CA: Google Ads Performance Max

Nov. 12, 2018

Beware! App autostarts a bunch of campaigns without permission. I installed hoping to look into it later. This app burned through almost $50 with 9 different ad campaigns I don't even know how it decided on them all that they were ok to do. And I didn't even get any sales and hardly any clicks from their campaigns so not sure how they spent so much in such a short time.

Nov. 9, 2018

Might work well if you sell generic items. My products however are very niche specific. The keywords used for example are just 'tshirt'. 95% of people searching for t-shirts aren't interested in buying LGBT shirts. So this clever app doesn't work for me. Got 0 clicks in 24 hours. I guess I'll stick to manual ads.

Nov. 5, 2018

Part of the "setup" process is to review the app, - before it is even in use. Tons of FIVE star reviews by people they GAVE the premium plan to for FREE as part of the promotion. When someone gets a product for FREE they are expected to leave a 5 Star review, so... take all those 5 stars with a grain of salt. They are giving FIVE star reviews and talk about how easy it is to set up. But the purpose of the app is not easy installation - it's REVENUE. I'm not seeing ANY reviews for positive increase in conversions, which is the ENTIRE purpose of the app. Fake reviews are a HUGE turn off for a genuine bussiness owner and it gets ONE star for that bad practice. On the AP itself, like any real review, I reserve judgement until actually using it for 30 days.

Nov. 1, 2018

Hard to get a response. Updated to premium account but all 3 emails in last 4 days did not get a response. Need to work on support.

Oct. 8, 2018

For some reason it just went haywire with my budget. I somehow spent $185 in a few days with no sales. be very careful here, this app is not what it appears

Oct. 6, 2018

There ad response time 10 days was bad also their key words selection on the items uploaded was bad.

Oct. 1, 2018

would not recommended this app. The manager was not following the keywords set I have given and wasted thousands of dollar without one single conversion.

Sept. 11, 2018

save your money and do not get premium... bad support for campaigns. If you are just trying to get the standard, then you can set up your ads easily, but if you need a person that helps you to get the better traffic and optimize your campaigns this is not your app.

Sept. 8, 2018

Recently we moved away from our digital advertising agency because they were a little too pricey. So we signed up with Clever Google Adwords. After a few weeks we noticed we were not getting any conversions at all so we contacted them and they convinced us to upgrade to a higher price plan. Now we've paid them more money and in the past month have spent almost $1,000 and have had NO conversions (not one sale according to their tracking). We are doing okay with our website sales...but if the analytics are right...the thousands of clicks we've paid for have not resulted in one sale? So we went from a high priced digital advertising agency and were getting a lot of sales for a high marketing price...to this app where we are getting no sales from their computer generated PPC clicks. Not sure what to say...other than we've wasted a lot of time and money with this company.

Feb. 27, 2019

Useless app.Was used 12 days without any result!Even if uninstall the app they still charged you 49$ every month to rest of your life!

Aug. 20, 2018

app is a scam, i turned the campaign they made off at 12pm. I opened the app later in the day at 8pm and it was active and $6.00 was already spent. Mind you my min budget set $5. I am glad I checked in again, i probably would of woke up to a bill of $100.

Aug. 13, 2018

Google alsmost closed my account because of violation of their rules, good job guys!

July 28, 2018

i set my ads to run in the USA, the ad ran world wide. I set the ad to target women (we sell cosmetics)... my ads ran in Russia and Turkey, and when the users got to my site they searched for porn and sex toys. No thanks.

June 13, 2018

UPDATE: Carlos and Jose have both contacted me telling me that I actually made the mistakes that resulted in such poorly designed, poorly written ads. Then they asked me to re-download the app with premium freebies in exchange for changing my review. I spent time with the set-up, entered custom text and made selections in each field. The app just simply did not save my data and as a result made really bad google ads. I suggested that they both focus on fixing the errors in their interface rather than trying to convince intelligent customers that they're wrong. ALERT: When you delete the app from your store, they still have Manager access to your AdWords account. Be sure to remove their access separately. __ The banner ads do not look good, they look terrible in fact. The banner ads feature a font that is really stylized and hard to read. There are typos in nearly every ad; banner, display, search, text, etc - "Quality" is misspelled as "Qaulity". The ad text is generic, pulled from Google categories - so some of the search ads have the phrase "Arts & Entertainment" for my products which are coffee mugs and coasters. I'm not really even sure how that mistake happened. As a personal preference I didn't like that some ads ended with the phrase "satisfaction guaranteed" which does not apply directly to retail gifts and souvenirs. I only let the ads run for one day (it asks for 4 weeks to learn, which is fair) but I had 11,100 impressions and only 49 clicks. That's a .44% click through rate, which is absolutely terrible. It just verifies what other reviewers are saying - these ads do not get "qaulity" clicks or customers to your site because the ads themselves are not "qaulity". I did much better creating Google Ads on my own. I understand that the service was free, but the terrible ad spend was not.

Aug. 27, 2018

not good, at first i thought it is very easy, but no, we spent $2000 ads to make $2000 sales, which is lost money, we asked their team to help us to optimize, they said they will, later they did nothing, we asked again, they never response, so we decided to stop this app, we have keep emailing many times, they finally response, : You just have to delete or at least pause the remaining campaigns from your Adwords account. This way you will not be charged in the future.

April 27, 2018

My ad campaign has been under review for about 2 months.

April 20, 2018

When I added this app, I noticed a huge jump in traffic. BUT I started also noticing that the traffic wasn't converting at all- and we had previously had a good conversion rate. So I started watching the live traffic and I noticed that HUNDREDS of clicks went to one page and never moved. They'd sit there for a minute, then go away. At a cpc of $.47 and up, that adds up. No way. No thank you.

April 17, 2018

After almost 2 week, my campaign is still under construction. They need to automate more.

April 2, 2018

Didn't even install correctly. As soon as installation finished it produced an error message and won't load. Absolutely useless.

April 2, 2018

Surprised at how many 5-star reviews they had until I signed up myself and saw that they give away the 'Premium' version of this product after an immediate review. As most people have never used this application when then leave the review I can now see why so many talked about the setup and none of the actual service. I will leave a 1-star rating for now as I am not impressed with them 'buying' reviews, however, if the product works well then I will be back to improve my rating.