Austin LeClearPPC Marketing Leader Driving Profitable Growth

Why I Dismiss 90% of Google Ads Recommendations

Name: Why I Dismiss 90% of Google Ads Recommendations
Uploaded: 2025-12-15T16:45:16+00:00
Duration: 1 min 22 s
Channel: Austin LeClear
Description: In this video, the presenter walks through his monthly routine of reviewing Google Ads recommendations. He explains that he rarely follows the…

15 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this video, the presenter walks through his monthly routine of reviewing Google Ads recommendations. He explains that he rarely follows the suggestions, dismissing most of them while investigating only the ones that matter, such as missing sitelinks. He highlights a strategic hack: maintaining a high optimization score (by dismissing irrelevant recommendations) reduces the number of outreach calls from Google representatives, which is valuable for agencies, freelancers, and self‑managed accounts. The presenter also cites his experience with Performance Max campaigns, claiming they have generated over $50 million in client revenue, and offers a free, practical Performance Max course to viewers who comment “PMAX”. The content blends instructional advice with a promotional call‑to‑action.

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This is what I do with Google Ads recommendations every month. So here, all I'm doing on a monthly basis is looking at what Google's recommending. I have a YouTube video, so that will be in the description below. Most of the time I do not do what Google recommends. However, I do go through the recommendations on a monthly basis and if I don't like them. Okay, so like this one, finishing adding site links to a campaign, I would actually go investigate that. Wait, hold on. Why is there no site links on this campaign? But if I would go so create a new video reach campaign like this means nothing to me, then I go in here and dismiss them. Why is that important? Well, if you're an agency or you know, a freelancer, or even if you manage your own account, you're just sick of Google reps. If you have. Here's the hack that I have found. If you have a high optimization score, you will hear less from your Google rep. So I make sure to have a high optimization score by essentially dismissing most of it if I need to. Like listen, this is one I would go investigate. I'm just going to dismiss this. So it's a 96.2 because I know about it. So I'm going to hit dismiss. Boom. Look, I'm not 97.6. Right. We have generated over $50 million in revenue for our clients using Performance Max campaigns. We decided we're going to download our 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.