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posted Wed, Mar 26 2008 11:45AM

by Carolyn Miller - MSFT

Joined: Mar 06 2008

Points: 25,825 | Posts: 161

What features would you like to see in future iterations of adCenter? What's your top ten wish list? Please share your product feedback in this thread - we'll take your ideas back to the team for consideration, and then keep you posted on the feature request queue and any ETA's.

Past features we're released due to community feedback include negative keywords at a campaign level, daily budget target, bulk submit option after importing a campaign, the ability to copy an ad group, and more. So your feedback here can help to make an impact and help us shape the product to come.

Be sure to let us know "why" a certain feature is important to you, and if you have more than one request, let us know which would higher priority than others.

Thanks!
Carolyn

Carolyn Miller

adCenter Community Team PM

Filed under: feedback, feature requests

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posted Wed, Mar 26 2008 01:18PM

by byronm

Joined: Mar 18 2008

Points: 1,620 | Posts: 21

Keyword trigger/search report - I need to see which keywords initiated which ads so i can intelligently build a negative keyword report that fits the demographics particular to adcenter. Its also important to see what keyword calls what ad so you can manage those keywords better - Too often i find i bid on something i feel that is targeted and get clicks but see that someone searching for some town/city/name/business is seeing my ad and clicking on it. Adwords has such a report and its invaluable.

Byron Miller Moogr Home Theater, Electronics & Computers

Filed under: keywords

posted Mon, Apr 14 2008 09:05AM

by rsrathnaraj

Joined: Apr 14 2008

Points: 4,735 | Posts: 48

Features that i would like to see in future iterations of adCenter are :

* Provide the option for export entire campaign with keywords and ads

* Can incorporate adlab with adCenter for doing better research

* Increase the system speed

* Can introduce an Editor like adwords editors

* Can introduce image ads

* Can expand the "Distribute your ads by language and market" apart from English and French.

* Can provide an option to pause an adcopy/keywords

* Browser Compatability - Few options are not working in Firefox

Thanks,

Rathna

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posted Tue, Apr 29 2008 05:52PM

by TommyBoi

Joined: Apr 29 2008

Points: 150 | Posts: 2

Image Ads - Would be absolutely awesome in AdCenter.
AJax interface alternative - It's ungodly slow, prone to errors (my favorite being an alert saying "Empty." when trying to add keywords), and on slower computers causes them to just lock up. It would be so nice to have just a standard site that was fast and effecient.
Make the "Remember Me" button mean something. I've never had it actually remember me. In fact, I got logged out pretty quickly by default(especially given the slow interface), and then get to start over.
Targeted Placement is golden. Especially in combination with image ads.

posted Tue, Apr 29 2008 11:35PM

by artmacc

Joined: Apr 30 2008

Points: 305 | Posts: 3

HUGE REQUEST = Change geotargeting from adgroup to campaign level

posted Tue, Apr 29 2008 11:41PM

by artmacc

Joined: Apr 30 2008

Points: 305 | Posts: 3

Map provided for geo actually allow user to select state rather than image only

posted Wed, Apr 30 2008 12:53AM

by 1357

Joined: Apr 18 2008

Points: 445 | Posts: 4

Display of Alert messages on the interface when there is new updates on AdCenter and about the campaigns, ad groups in case any disapprovals. It would be helpful for an advertiser to know what is happening on AdCenter and in managing accounts.

posted Wed, Apr 30 2008 09:52AM

by fitnfree

Joined: Apr 10 2008

Points: 380 | Posts: 5

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posted Wed, Apr 30 2008 09:18PM

by TommyBoi

Joined: Apr 29 2008

Points: 150 | Posts: 2

Ah forgot one. The "relevance" bot is completely insane and needs to relax. The fact that the we are actually told by support to keyword stuff if our landing pages when our keywords(inevitably) get deactivated for relevance signals there's a real problem here. I've seen some truly bizarre deactivations.

posted Fri, May 02 2008 05:27AM

by adoffcenter

Joined: May 02 2008

Points: 335 | Posts: 4

A lot of the suggestions already mentioned are good ones.. i'll just go over my own list.

1) Ad Group > Keywords tab: Ever use Easynews? Use it and copy their checkbox technique. I should be able to select ranges of checkboxes and update the bids in those checkboxes.
2) Ad Group > Keywords tab: Do I really need an Actions button with a dropdown when there is only one action? Rename that button delete and make it do just that.
3) Ad Group > Keywords tab: This may be a Firefox thing but why can't I copy and paste in the bid textbox? When I want to update a handful of bids, normally I would just copy and paste the value to save keystrokes. This problem would be fixed if you implemented #1.
4) Ad Group > Keywords tab: Get rid of Export to excel and just give me a plaintext list.

5) Ad Group > Ads tab: Add some kind of unique identifier for each ad. Ad Title is useless when I have multiple ads with the same title. This would really help me with matching up my tracking data with ads.
6) Ad Group > Ads tab: Why can't I change how many ads I can see at once? If I can only create 20 ads in a group, is it really necessary to have pagination? Let me just see all 20 ads. In fact, being able to select how many rows are displayed on all the datatables would be nice -- and have it remember!
7) Ad Group > Ads tab: Please, please add a character count to the Create Ad fields. It doesn't have to take into account dynamic variables, it doesn't even really have to do much of anything except let me know how many characters are in that box. It's not helpful to get an error message that says "You typed 97 characters but can only type 75". I have better things to do then count characters.

8) Tell me the time the performance data was updated, and not just the date. I don't know if this would be possible, but it'd be nice.

9) Fix UI/Backend problems. Each day I use adCenter is another day I experience randomness. Whether it is data not showing up, forms that stop working, or just plain bugs.
10) Speed things up. Why am I waiting ~30 seconds to do simple things like update a bid for a keyword? And more importantly, why is it not even telling me its doing anything? If I didn't have Firefox with Firebug it would just seem like Save was a button that doesn't do anything.
11) I know you guys love your .net. But seriously. Speed things up.
12) EVERYTHING takes forever.

When I first started using adcenter I found myself lost quite a few times, but now I'm used to it and like the way things are organized, for the most part. Someday adCenter might be good but for the time being its a distant third.

Oh, and also... please add a little bit of Opera support. I know Opera is sometimes a pain to develop for, but right now, I can't even login. I would tolerate only being able to view and not edit information.

Thanks.

Off-topic... my post didn't have any spacing... why did I have to add my own HTML [br] tags?

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