How we rebuild a wasteful Google Ads account
Most Google Ads accounts we take over share the same structural problems: too many broad match keywords consuming budget on irrelevant queries, Performance Max campaigns running without curated audience signals, negative keyword lists that have not been updated in months, conversion tracking that double-counts or misses important actions, and bid strategies mismatched to the campaign goal.
Our rebuild follows a sequence. Week one: fix conversion tracking. You cannot optimise to the wrong destination. Week two: negative keyword audit plus search term review going back 90 days — usually kills 20–35% of spend immediately. Week three: restructure match types, move broad match where it does not belong to phrase or exact. Week four: Performance Max asset groups rebuilt with proper signals, audience-first rather than asset-first. Weeks five to eight: bid-strategy experiments using Google Ads' built-in experiments framework, so changes are statistically validated rather than guessed.
- Conversion tracking audit before any optimisation
- 90-day search term and negative keyword rebuild
- Match-type restructuring with exact match core
- Performance Max asset group rebuild with real signals
- Statistically-validated bid strategy experiments