Google Changes Your Ads Without Permission—Stop It Here

Google automatically changes your ads unless you disable it. Go to Recommendations, uncheck the Auto-Apply boxes under both "Maintain your ads" and "Grow your business," and leave most turned off. A free cheat sheet is in the description.
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I hate Google Auto Apply recommendation. I hate when I see accounts get fleeced by Google because they turned them on without knowing what they actually are. Okay, so I am inside of an account now at the account level. So you see all the campaigns that are running to get to the Auto Apply recommendations and to be able to control whether you want to turn them on or turn them on, you're going to want to go over to this recommendations tab on the left side. Now this recommendations tab and this optimization score its own thing. However, with the Auto Apply recommendations going to want to actually go to this Auto Apply icon, you can really only get there from this Recommendations tab. Now if I click Auto Apply, if these are turned on, Google can actually automatically make changes and apply these changes in your account, which is what we want to avoid. So here you'll see Maintain your ads, there's nine recommendation types and grow your business. There's 14 recommendation types. This is where it's going to give you the recommendations and then these boxes next to them. If you have them checked, they basically give give Google full control then of making those changes automatically as they see fit. And if you have them turned off or not checked, then Google won't be able to do that. You'll notice in this particular account most of them are turned off. This is how we recommend most accounts. Look, there's only a few that should be enabled. I have an entire cheat sheet that I've built. This will be available in the description of the video for you to check out. We have generated over $50 million in revenue for our clients using Performance Max campaigns. We decided we're going to download knowledge of Performance Max campaigns into a free, easy, practical course and just give it away to the community. Comment PMAX below and I'll send you the free PMAX course directly to your DMs. Go grab this free course and I'll see you inside.
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