18/09/2023
Tried Google Ads, our stack features updates
Hey-hey, we are 7 years old already! Time flies :)) We’ve been trying to register our business on Google maps for more than a year, and finally – BD present )) we managed it! It turned out this option for entrepreneurs from Ukraine was blocked because of war.
We decided to give a try to use Google Ads to advertise our site.
We, mostly engineers, do not understand marketing through Ads very well :), we were constantly told not to do Ads on our own, but we tried. We’ve got some interesting observations:
Dealing with the Ads service itself and getting clicks on the site turned out to be much easier than expected. And it is quite possible to do it independently without the involvement of third-party organizations.
The effectiveness of Ads for attracting clicks/impressions seems to be much higher than SEO. At least for our business.
But we are grateful to the existence of word-of-mouth marketing, thanks to which the business develops even without an active external search.
We registered the domain https://micrdevops.com.ua, mainly so that it is not registered by unkind people :). We also applied for trademark registration in Ukraine and the EU, the USA is next in line.
In our main backup utility rsnapshot_backup (https://github.com/microdevops-com/microdevops-formula/blob/master/rsnapshot_backup/pillar.example) for a long time there was a shortcoming that local backups, including copying multi-gigabyte database dumps, were performed via ssh on localhost. This behavior has finally been changed and rsync of local backups is now performed without ssh, which is better in terms of performance.
For our clients, we upgraded their gitlabs to version 16.2.
We received an interesting case with one of the new clients: the client used many virtual machines with an Admin panel, in which a vulnerability was found by hackers and malicious code was injected into the sites through it. Because of that these servers were blocked in Hetzner. When the client turned to us: we found a way to get the data from the servers, clean malicious injections and upload sites to a new separate dedicated server. Thus save the search reputation of these sites. Next, since our ideology of Infrastructure as Code is not compatible with any panels, but the client constantly and massively generates many sites, we implemented the Client – IaC connection for it. The client gives us a list and parameters of the sites to be created on its endpoint, and the deployment pipeline takes this list and deploys the sites (static, WordPress) on the server using IaC.
For more details you are welcome to visit our website https://microdevops.com/tried-google-ads-our-stack-features-updates/
