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Developer made $3,246 mistake that blew up our advertising budget.

(And the easy fix no one talks about)

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Brian Decoded
Dec 03, 2025
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When I worked at eTech, the SEO team pushed a site update in the middle of the day...

• No warning.
• No coordination.
• Just a routine update.

Except it crashed the website.

And our Google Ads kept spending.

For three straight hours, every click went to a dead page.

By the time the site came back up, we burned $3,246 on nothing.

That one screw-up taught me a r…

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