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Resolving Google Promotion Credit Issue on Google Ads

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In this blog post, I would like to share my experience of resolving a Google promotion credit issue on our Southern Cross Group company's Google Ads account. Our Google Ads agency was "First Rate (Aus) Pty Ltd" and we received a $600 credit for spending $600 on Google Ads with a condition to spend it before Dec 31, 2022. However, after spending the required amount, the remaining credit of $543.53 was not applied to our account. Promotions was Active I noticed the issue with the remaining credit before it expired and brought it to the attention of our Google Ads agency. They escalated the matter to the Google Support team, but the response was not satisfactory. The Google Support team advised us to wait until the end of December for the credit to appear. I sent several follow-up messages to our agency, but no updates were received. Promotion - Credit Expired Finally, on 10th February 2023, our ad agency informed me that they had resolved the issue with the help of a ...

Technical Challenges Faced After Migrating Website Server

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I want to share a real-time incident that I faced after migrating our website server from a Digital Pacific dedicated hosting (Linux server) to Godaddy shared hosting (Windows server) environment. As a SEO analyst, I noticed the following issues with our current shared hosting server that are impacting our website SEO activities, particularly website crawl: Blocked Googlebots: This is a common issue with our shared hosting where their firewalls block a part of legitimate traffic along with Googlebots. I reviewed the website firewall log and found that it has blocked Googlebot from crawling the site. Example: 66.249.73.29 - - [03/Aug/2021:23:52:19 -0400] "GET /invasivef6/ecce412002.htm HTTP/1.1" 403 2700 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.119 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" "PROXYBLOCKID:BNP003" "CACHES:-...