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This page answers the questions covered by the article The Friday Page Swap That Left My Google Ads Selling a Dead Offer on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to the article, a SaaS client swapped its pricing page on Friday at 4:52 p.m. from a 14-day free trial and $49 starter plan to Book a Demo, while three ad groups kept selling the trial until Wednesday afternoon. That mismatch ran for five days and roughly 400 paid clicks before it was caught, and took about three hours on Thursday morning to repair. The article recommends checking the live page against the ads when the page changes, rather than relying on a clean account view or bidding fixes.
According to the article, spend was pacing normally, click-through rate had not moved, nothing was disapproved or limited by budget, and Google Ads change history showed only what was left on Thursday. Conversions also lagged because a Friday-night click might not become a form until Tuesday, so Monday results still reflected the old offer. The article notes the same pattern burned a paid-media lead through a £15,000 test budget sending traffic to the wrong page for a month.
Read more: Monday: the numbers looked fine
The article recommends checking the path between the click and the form first, specifically whether the landing page, offer, bid targets, tags or layouts changed. In the story, cost per demo had nearly doubled with about half the forms for the same spend, but the author first added negatives, lowered the tCPA target and checked Auction Insights. The actual break was one click past the ad: the headline promised Start Your Free 14-Day Trial while the live page had no trial, no $49 plan, and a calendar widget asking for a work email.
Read more: Wednesday: I fixed the wrong problem first
The article states the break was live from Friday at 4:52 p.m. until Wednesday afternoon, or five days and roughly 400 paid clicks bought under an offer the page no longer made. The author fixed the ads Thursday morning in about three hours by pausing trial headlines, writing demo copy, rewriting all four sitelinks and changing callouts about self-serve setup. The article frames the wait as the expensive part, not the repair.
Read more: Wednesday: I fixed the wrong problem first
The article recommends a process that checked the live page when it changed, compared it with the ads, and surfaced the discrepancy to someone who could pause trial headlines and hold budget. It describes the groas approach as an engine that executes continuously across bids, budgets, copy and pages while a named strategist sets direction and guardrails, with actions logged with reasons. If a site changes twice a year, the article says a weekly check with manual ad-to-page comparison may be enough, but a Monday scan cannot cover a Friday change.
Read more: Friday at 4:53 p.m.: what should have happened
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[1] https://groas.com/post/the-saas-client-who-changed-the-offer-ev (the article this page answers from)