Google Ads Audit & Strategy Review

Find out what's
actually limiting
your growth.

A commercially grounded review of your Google Ads account. Not a surface checklist — a real diagnosis of what's working, what isn't, and what a clear path forward looks like.

Apply for a review

Tell us about your account

We review every application and follow up within 48 hours. Limited availability.

Response within 48 hours. No obligation to continue.

Commercially grounded We look at business economics, not just campaign settings
Founder-led Nik does every audit personally — no junior analysts
No obligation Honest output you can act on, whatever you decide next
8+ years eCommerce Pattern recognition across many account types and business models
What this is

Not a checklist.
A real diagnosis.

Most Google Ads audits are surface-level. They tell you whether your conversion tracking is set up, whether your ad copy follows best practices, whether your campaigns are using the right bid strategies. That's useful — but it's not where the real leverage is.

Our review goes deeper. We approach it like a commercial problem: what's this account actually optimised for, where is spend going relative to where revenue is generated, what are the product and margin dynamics, and what's the honest diagnosis of why performance is where it is?

The output isn't a report card. It's a prioritised action plan — with the reasoning behind each recommendation, so you can act on it confidently with or without us.

Typical audit

  • Surface-level checklist of settings and best practices
  • Generic recommendations not specific to your business
  • Focused only on what's inside the ad platform
  • Written to justify hiring the agency
  • Delivered by a junior analyst, reviewed by a senior

Our review

  • Commercial diagnosis tied to business economics
  • Specific to your account, your product mix, your margins
  • Looks beyond the platform at feed, funnel, offer, tracking
  • Written to give you clarity, not to sell
  • Every review done personally by Nik
Review areas

Every area that
could be limiting growth.

We don't look at everything with equal depth — we prioritise based on what we see in your specific account. But here's what's in scope:

01

Account structure & campaign architecture

Whether your setup is actually built to scale or just accumulated organically over time. Fragmentation, duplication, logic gaps, and whether the structure reflects your business priorities.

02

Spend allocation & budget distribution

Where money is going vs where revenue is being generated. Whether budget is concentrated in high-performers or spread too thin across too many campaigns.

03

Performance Max setup & signals

Asset group structure, audience signal quality, campaign segmentation logic, and whether PMax is working as intended or cannibalising other campaigns.

04

Google Shopping structure & bidding

How products are segmented, how bids are structured across the catalogue, and whether the bidding logic reflects your actual margin and priority mix.

05

Brand vs non-brand strategy

How branded and non-branded traffic is managed and separated. Whether you're over-investing in existing demand and underinvesting in new customer acquisition — or vice versa.

06

Search intent coverage & gaps

Whether your Search campaigns are capturing the right queries at the right stages of intent. Match type logic, negatives, and where coverage is missing or leaking.

07

Feed quality & Merchant Center health

Title logic, attribute completeness, category mapping, custom labels, product data quality, and how feed issues are affecting Shopping visibility and relevance.

08

Conversion tracking & data integrity

Whether your conversion tracking is accurate, what's being counted as a conversion and whether that's the right thing, and where data gaps are affecting bidding and reporting.

09

Attribution & measurement

How conversions are being attributed across channels and whether that model is giving you a reliable picture of what's actually driving revenue.

10

Product mix & margin considerations

Whether you're bidding in a way that reflects your actual margin contribution across products. High-volume doesn't always mean high-value — we look at whether your spend reflects that.

11

Landing page & funnel friction

Where traffic is landing, whether those pages match ad intent, and where obvious friction is suppressing conversion rate below what your ad spend deserves.

12

Offer strength & creative gaps

Whether the proposition in your ads is compelling enough to convert, and whether there are obvious gaps in creative, promotion, or messaging that are costing you.

What you get

Clear findings.
Prioritised actions.
No fluff.

The output is designed to give you genuine clarity — not a 60-slide deck that takes three hours to read and leaves you more confused than when you started.

Every recommendation comes with a rationale. You'll know why it matters, what the likely impact is, and what to do first. Whether you work with us after or not, the output is yours.

"I didn't realise how much we were leaving on the table until someone actually looked at the full picture — the account, the feed, the product margins, all of it together."

eCommerce founder, homewares brand
1

Written audit document

A structured, readable document covering key findings across every review area relevant to your account. Clear, specific, and direct — not padded out with generic advice.

2

Diagnosis & root cause analysis

Our honest read on what's driving current performance — and what's limiting it. This is the part most audits skip. It's also the most valuable.

3

Prioritised recommendations

A clear list of what to fix, restructure, or improve — in order of likely commercial impact. With the reasoning behind each recommendation, not just a list of tasks.

4

Walkthrough call

We walk through the findings together on a call. You can ask questions, push back, add context, and leave with a clear understanding of what to do next.

How it works

Simple process.
Clear output.

The process is designed to be low-friction on your end. We need access and context — then we do the work.

Step 1 · Day 1

Apply and get accepted

Fill in the application form. We review it and confirm within 48 hours whether we're a good fit and have availability. If yes, we'll book a brief intake call to gather context.

Step 2 · Day 2–3

Access and intake

You grant read access to your Google Ads account, Merchant Center, and GA4. We ask a few targeted questions about your business, margins, product priorities, and what you most want answered.

Step 3 · Days 3–10

The review

Nik conducts the full review. We go through the account in depth, pull the data we need, and build the findings document. We may reach out if we need clarification on something.

Step 4 · Day 10–12

Delivery and walkthrough

We send you the written output and book a call to walk through it together. You'll leave with a clear picture of what to prioritise and why.

After

Your call on what's next

No pressure to continue. Some clients take the output and act on it internally or with their existing team. Others use it as the basis for an ongoing engagement. Either is fine.

Is this right for you?

Who this works
best for.

The audit is most valuable when there's real substance to work with — an established account, meaningful spend, and a genuine growth ambition.

Good fit

  • Established eCommerce brand with proven product-market fit
  • Spending $10k+ per month on Google Ads
  • Feeling like performance has plateaued or underperformed
  • Unsure what's actually driving — or limiting — results
  • Recently switched agency and want a fresh outside view
  • Strong product and margins but Google Ads feels like a black box

Probably not the right moment

  • Very early-stage brand with limited data or budget
  • Tracking is completely broken with no plan to fix it
  • Looking for someone to validate a decision already made
  • Not willing to act on findings or make changes
  • Looking for a cheap option or a standard checklist report

Apply for a
Strategy Review

Limited availability. We review every application and respond within 48 hours. No obligation to continue after the audit.