{"id":1717,"date":"2019-06-23T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/warning-google-is-not-your-friend"},"modified":"2020-02-15T21:21:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T21:21:37","slug":"warning-google-is-not-your-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/warning-google-is-not-your-friend","title":{"rendered":"WARNING! Google Is Not Your Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting with a Fire &#038; Security professional recently. He&#8217;d been sent a Google voucher to get started on paid ads.<\/p>\n<p>He was VERY EXCITED!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to rain on his parade. I didn&#8217;t want to be the voice of doom and gloom.<\/p>\n<p>BUT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A Fire &#038; Security company showed us a regular report from their Ads manager claiming lots of conversions. But the\u00a0director wasn&#8217;t so sure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/lead-generation-fire-and-security-companies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this data matched the number of enquiries<\/a> he was receiving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lollipop did an audit and added in some checks and balances.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was right. He was spending a lot of money for &#8216;awareness&#8217;. But it wasn&#8217;t translating into site surveys. Worse still, he was paying for clicks on ads by people who were outside the locations he wanted to serve.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/google-not-fire-security-friend.jpg\" alt=\"google-not-fire-security-friend\" width=\"600\" style=\"width: 600px; display: block; margin: 0px auto;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/google-not-fire-security-friend.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/google-not-fire-security-friend.jpg 600w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/google-not-fire-security-friend.jpg 900w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/google-not-fire-security-friend.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/google-not-fire-security-friend.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/google-not-fire-security-friend.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<h3>Google Ads for Fire &#038; Security<\/h3>\n<p>Most of you are local businesses. You have a very small target audience. That can make it very hard for Google&#8217;s algorithm to get the data she needs to give you the best results.<\/p>\n<p>And that means it can be an expensive mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you have things <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/google-adwords-consultant\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">set up by an expert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We wrote a little poem about it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>No matter what they tell you, Google&#8217;s not your friend<\/em><br \/><em>Her goal in life is really just to make you spend spend spend<\/em><br \/><em>She&#8221;ll send you special offers, cos you&#8217;re a V.I.P.<\/em><br \/><em>But it&#8217;s just a clever gambit to make you bid on P.P.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s Adwords to the rest of us mere mortals who will play<\/em><br \/><em>A game that&#8217;s stacked against us, the odds are you will pay<\/em><br \/><em>Being number one on Google parts your business from its cash<\/em><br \/><em>Your Cost Per Click bid payments increasing Google&#8217;s stash<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She&#8217;ll offer you an expert to set things up for free<\/em><br \/><em>It seems like such a good idea to have a try and see<\/em><br \/><em>You&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ll get some good results cos they&#8217;ve got all the facts<\/em><br \/><em>But the gurus call this concept the Ads&#8217; Stupidity Tax<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Whilst Adverts can be brilliant in certain circumstances<\/em><br \/><em>It&#8217;s down to expert planning and not taking any chances<\/em><br \/><em>So don&#8217;t go at it blindly, use a trustworthy resource<\/em><br \/><em>Or it could be more expensive than a celebrity divorce<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lollipop &#8211; Keeping Tabs on Google so you don&#8217;t have to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Choose the right expert to <a href=\"\/successful-digital-marketing-for-fire-and-security-companies-lp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">manage your Fire &#038; Security marketing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/tlc-checklist-how-to-get-more-fire-security-customers-lp'><img alt='How To Get More Fire And Security Clients' src='https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ca009161-dc1d-4106-ad8e-a78d26272320.png'><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting with a Fire &#038; Security professional recently. He&#8217;d been sent a Google voucher to get started on paid ads. He was VERY EXCITED! I didn&#8217;t want to rain on his parade. I didn&#8217;t want to be the voice of doom and gloom. BUT&#8230; A Fire &#038; Security company showed us a regular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/warning-google-is-not-your-friend\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WARNING! Google Is Not Your Friend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-security","category-google-adwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbound.lollipoplocal.co.uk\/inbound-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}