Before increasing budget—or deciding whether to replace an agency—an e-commerce Google Ads audit should establish three things:

1. Can the performance data be trusted?
2. Is current spend producing incremental contribution profit?
3. Does the account have genuinely profitable room to scale?

Do not make a budget or agency decision from reported ROAS alone.

A strong audit connects Google Ads, Merchant Center, analytics and e-commerce data with the commercial realities of margin, stock, returns, customer value and fulfilment. It should explain not only what is wrong, but how much each issue matters, which changes should happen first and what evidence would justify additional investment.

For a marketing director or head of e-commerce, the audit should lead to one of three defensible decisions:

• Increase budget because profitable incremental demand is being missed.
• Retain and improve because the strategy is sound but specific issues need correcting.
• Change agency or operating model because measurement, transparency, capability or commercial accountability is materially inadequate.

What is the purpose of a Google Ads audit?

An audit is not a long list of platform recommendations or cosmetic account observations. Its purpose is to reduce uncertainty around a commercial decision.

Before approving more spend, it should answer:

• What is Google Ads genuinely contributing to revenue and profit?
• Which campaigns, products and customers create that value?
• Where is budget being wasted or over-credited?
• What prevents the account from scaling?
• What is the expected return from fixing those constraints?
• Is the current agency identifying and acting on these issues?

Before changing agency, it should distinguish between four very different causes of weak performance:

• A genuine media-management failure
• Faulty tracking or attribution
• A website, stock, pricing or merchandising problem
• Unrealistic expectations about available demand or economics

Replacing an agency will not repair an uncompetitive offer or broken checkout by itself. Equally, blaming the website should not protect an agency that has failed to detect obvious tracking, feed or campaign problems.

Begin with business objectives and commercial context

The auditor should understand the business before judging the account.

Record:

• Revenue and contribution-profit targets
• Monthly and seasonal media budgets
• Product margins and return rates
• New-customer acquisition objectives
• Acceptable payback period
• Stock depth and replenishment constraints
• Priority categories and products
• Geographic markets
• Promotional calendar
• Delivery proposition
• Competitor positioning
• Historical agency objectives and scope

Without this context, an auditor can optimise towards a number the business does not actually need.

For example, raising ROAS may reduce spend and absolute profit. Increasing revenue may direct more budget towards low-margin products. Lowering CPA may shift activity towards returning customers who were likely to purchase anyway.

The account must be assessed against the intended business outcome.

Audit area 1: Conversion tracking and measurement integrity

This is the first technical priority. If purchase tracking or values are wrong, every conclusion about bidding, campaign performance and agency capability becomes unreliable.

Confirm the primary bidding conversion

For a conventional e-commerce account, Purchase should normally be the primary conversion action used for retail bidding.

Check whether Google is also optimising towards:

• Page views
• Product views
• Add-to-baskets
• Checkout starts
• Newsletter subscriptions
• Telephone clicks
• Imported duplicate purchases

These actions can be valuable diagnostics, but they should not influence purchase-focused bidding unless the values and strategy deliberately account for their commercial importance.

Document which conversion goals each campaign uses. A conversion action can exist in the account without being used by a particular campaign, while custom goals can cause secondary actions to influence bidding.

Test purchase accuracy

Complete controlled transactions across the main checkout paths and verify:

• One purchase is recorded once
• Unique transaction IDs are passed
• Order value is dynamic and correct
• Currency is correct
• Tax and delivery treatment is understood
• Discounts are reflected consistently
• Cross-domain payment flows retain attribution
• Different payment methods complete tracking
• Consent choices behave as expected
• Test and cancelled orders are excluded from commercial reporting

Do not rely only on a successful tag firing. Confirm that the transaction appears correctly in Google Ads, GA4 and the commerce platform.

Reconcile reporting platforms

Compare, for the same order cohort and date logic:

Source	What to confirm
E-commerce platform	Completed orders, gross revenue, discounts, cancellations and refunds
Payment data	Settled transactions and failed payments
GA4	Purchase events, revenue, transaction IDs and channel classification
Google Ads	Conversions, conversion value, attribution model and conversion timing
Finance or BI	Realised revenue, margin and contribution

These systems will not match perfectly because they use different attribution and reporting rules. The audit should quantify and explain the gap rather than pretending it does not exist.

Review conversions with cart data

Cart data can support product-level reporting and profit-related metrics, but implementation errors undermine its value.

Check that:

• The items array is populated for every purchase.
• Product IDs passed in conversion events exactly match Merchant Center IDs.
• Unit price and quantity are correctly formatted.
• Discounts are passed consistently.
• All sold products exist in the linked Merchant Center account.
• Cost-of-goods data is available where the business intends to use it.

Google states that item IDs in cart data must match the id attribute in the linked Merchant Center feed and provides diagnostics for mismatches, missing cart parameters and unavailable COGS. Google Ads: Conversions with cart data

Validate enhanced conversions and consent

Review whether enhanced conversions are configured appropriately, whether diagnostics report errors and whether first-party customer data is handled lawfully and accurately.

Assess:

• Tag coverage
• Consent-management behaviour
• Hashing and data formatting
• Match-rate trends
• Recent website or consent-platform changes
• Differences by browser and device

Consent and observability can change measured conversions without an equivalent change in actual sales. The audit should separate measurement loss from commercial decline.

Document attribution settings

Record:

• Attribution model
• Click-through and engaged-view windows
• View-through reporting
• Cross-device behaviour
• Conversion inclusion settings
• Recent changes
• Imported versus native conversion sources

Attribution settings allocate credit. They do not prove that advertising caused the order. That distinction belongs in the audit conclusion.

Audit area 2: Profitability and economic guardrails

An account can report strong revenue while producing weak or negative profit.

Calculate the pre-ad contribution for each material product or economic group:

Pre-ad contribution = Revenue − cost of goods − fulfilment − payment fees − delivery subsidy − discounts − expected returns

Then calculate:

Break-even ROAS = 1 ÷ pre-ad contribution margin

If pre-ad contribution margin is 30%:

Break-even ROAS = 1 ÷ 0.30 = 3.33x

At 3.33x, advertising has consumed the full pre-ad contribution. A target must normally sit above break-even to contribute towards overhead and profit.

Pre-ad contribution margin	Break-even ROAS
20%	5.00x
25%	4.00x
30%	3.33x
40%	2.50x
50%	2.00x

One account-wide ROAS target can be misleading where margins vary. The audit should identify whether Google is directing spend towards high-revenue but low-profit products.

Calculate allowable CPA

Where order economics are relatively uniform:

Allowable CPA = Pre-ad contribution per order − required contribution after advertising

If a £100 order leaves £35 before advertising and the business requires £10 contribution, allowable CPA is £25.

Review realised rather than reported value

Compare Google’s attributed conversion value with:

• Refund-adjusted revenue
• Product-level gross contribution
• Contribution after advertising
• New-customer contribution
• Repeat-purchase value
• Payback period

The audit should state whether the bidding target reflects revenue, margin, profit or customer value—and whether that is appropriate.

Audit area 3: Merchant Center and product-feed health

For Shopping and Performance Max, the feed is not administrative housekeeping. It is a core targeting, relevance and reporting input.

Review Merchant Center alongside Google Ads.

Product approval and visibility

Check:

• Disapprovals
• Warnings
• Pending reviews
• Limited-performance items
• Destination eligibility
• Policy issues
• Account suspensions or historical warnings
• Sudden changes in approved product count

Quantify the commercial exposure. Ten disapproved products may be insignificant—or may include the retailer’s bestsellers.

Feed-to-site accuracy

Confirm that:

• Price and sale price match the landing page
• Availability is current
• Variants are selectable
• Shipping cost and delivery time are accurate
• Returns information is consistent
• Landing pages load and remain indexable
• Mobile pages work correctly
• Structured data supports the visible information

Product identifiers and attributes

Review completeness and validity of:

• GTIN
• Brand
• MPN
• Item ID
• Item group ID
• Product type
• Google product category
• Colour
• Size
• Gender and age group where relevant
• Material, pattern and other category attributes

Missing or incorrect attributes can reduce eligibility, relevance and the quality of product-level analysis.

Product titles and descriptions

Assess whether titles include the attributes customers use to search, in a natural and prioritised order.

Compare feed language with:

• Search-term data
• Site search
• Category terminology
• Competitor listings
• Product-page content
• High-converting attributes

Avoid keyword stuffing. The objective is clear product identification and relevant matching.

Images

Check image compliance, quality, cropping, background, resolution and variant accuracy. Review whether lifestyle or additional images improve the shopper’s understanding without misrepresenting the product.

Custom labels

The audit should determine whether products can be segmented by meaningful commercial attributes:

• Margin band
• Stock depth
• Bestseller status
• Season
• Price band
• Return-rate band
• New-customer value
• Clearance status
• Strategic priority

These labels allow campaign structure and reporting to follow the business model.

Commercial competitiveness

Feed quality alone cannot overcome an uncompetitive proposition.

Review priority products for:

• Price competitiveness
• Delivery cost and speed
• Stock availability
• Returns proposition
• Reviews
• Promotions
• Product uniqueness
• Landing-page quality

An agency should identify when the limiting factor is commercial rather than simply increasing bids.

Audit area 4: Account structure and control

The account should reflect materially different intent, economics and business priorities—not merely Google’s default setup path.

Brand versus non-brand

Assess whether brand demand is separated clearly enough to prevent it obscuring generic customer-acquisition performance.

Review:

• Exact brand queries
• Brand-plus-product queries
• Misspellings
• Competitor terms
• Brand exclusions
• Organic brand visibility
• Paid and organic click substitution

Brand campaigns can create and protect value, but their ROAS should not be presented as equivalent to non-brand growth without incrementality evidence.

New versus returning customers

Determine:

• New-customer order share
• Returning-customer revenue
• New-customer CPA
• First-order contribution
• Repeat-purchase rate
• Payback period
• Customer-acquisition goal settings

If the business brief is customer acquisition but most budget re-engages existing buyers, the account is not aligned with the objective.

Product-level segmentation

Check whether campaign and listing structures distinguish products where:

• Margin differs materially
• Stock is constrained
• Return rate is high
• Seasonality differs
• Strategic importance differs
• Customer lifetime value differs

Avoid excessive fragmentation. Separate products only when budgets, targets, creative or commercial treatment should genuinely differ.

Performance Max structure

Review:

• Asset-group logic
• Listing groups and exclusions
• Search themes
• Audience signals
• Brand exclusions
• Negative keywords
• Final URL expansion
• Page-feed use
• Customer-acquisition settings
• Asset quality and coverage
• Channel reporting
• Product-level spend
• Cannibalisation and overlap with other campaigns

Performance Max has more visibility and controls than its earliest versions. The audit should use them rather than dismissing the campaign as unknowable.

Search structure

Assess:

• Keyword and query intent
• Match types
• Negative keywords
• Keyword overlap
• Ad-group themes
• Responsive Search Ads
• Asset relevance
• Landing-page alignment
• Location settings
• Search partners
• Device and schedule patterns
• Brand contamination

High spend on technically relevant but commercially weak search terms should be quantified.

Shopping structure

Review product groups, campaign priorities where applicable, bid strategies, feed labels, exclusions and overlap with PMax. Confirm that priority inventory receives deliberate treatment.

Budget allocation

Identify:

• Profitable campaigns limited by budget
• Campaigns spending below budget because targets are restrictive
• Low-margin products absorbing spend
• Brand demand inflating account averages
• Unused budget in strategically important areas
• Shared budgets masking individual campaign constraints
• Seasonal budget decisions unsupported by stock

The audit must distinguish “able to spend more” from “able to spend more profitably.”

Bidding strategy

Check whether Target CPA, Target ROAS, Maximise Conversions or Maximise Conversion Value matches the business goal.

Review:

• Target derivation
• Target changes
• Conversion volume
• Learning disruption
• Portfolio versus campaign strategies
• Budget constraints
• Value quality
• Differences between target and realised performance

Targets should be derived from economics and growth objectives, not generic benchmarks.

Audit area 5: Search terms, placements and wasted spend

Quantify waste rather than listing isolated examples.

For Search, group terms into:

• High-intent commercial
• Brand
• Competitor
• Informational or research-led
• Irrelevant
• Ambiguous
• Existing customer service
• Job-seeking or non-buyer intent

Report cost, orders, value and contribution for each group.

For PMax, review available search-category insights, channel reporting, product performance, placements and brand exposure. For Display, YouTube or Demand Gen, inspect placement quality, audience strategy, creative and frequency where available.

Do not classify every non-converting click as waste. New campaigns and higher-value purchase journeys require sufficient volume and time. The audit should distinguish inadequate evidence from persistent inefficiency.

Audit area 6: Creative and landing-page effectiveness

Google Ads performance is partly determined outside the account.

Review:

• Ad-message relevance
• Product and promotional accuracy
• Creative coverage and quality
• Brand consistency
• Mobile rendering
• Landing-page speed
• Product availability
• Variant selection
• Delivery and returns clarity
• Trust and reviews
• Checkout completion
• Payment options
• Conversion rate by page and device

If traffic quality remains stable but conversion rate falls across paid and organic channels, the primary issue may sit on the website.

The audit should state ownership clearly: which actions belong to the agency, e-commerce team, developer, merchandising team or finance function?

Audit area 7: Performance trends and change history

Review enough history to understand seasonality and structural shifts—often at least 12 months where available.

Analyse:

• Spend
• Clicks and CPC
• Conversion rate
• Orders
• Average order value
• Revenue
• CPA and ROAS
• Contribution profit
• Impression share
• New-customer share
• Product mix
• Refunds

Annotate:

• Budget and target changes
• Bid-strategy changes
• Campaign launches
• Feed updates
• Tracking changes
• Website releases
• Promotions
• Stockouts
• Agency handovers
• Market events

Use Change History to verify major platform edits and who made them. A good agency should also maintain a commercial change log that includes factors outside Google Ads.

Audit area 8: Incrementality and total-business impact

Attribution tells you which ad interactions received credit. It does not prove the sale would not have happened without advertising.

Compare Google Ads with:

• Total store revenue
• Total contribution profit
• Blended MER
• New-customer acquisition
• Organic and direct revenue
• Branded-search trends
• Email and affiliate performance
• Overall marketing spend

High-overlap areas deserve particular scrutiny:

• Brand Search
• Remarketing
• Existing-customer campaigns
• Performance Max with substantial branded demand
• Promotional periods

Where volume and eligibility permit, use Conversion Lift or a credible geographic holdout.

Google defines incremental conversions as the difference between treatment and control conversions—sales estimated not to have happened without the campaigns. It also reports incremental CPA as total spend divided by incremental conversions. Google Ads: Conversion Lift metrics

The audit does not need a lift study for every campaign. It should identify which budget areas most need one and define the commercial outcome to measure.

Audit area 9: Experimentation and learning discipline

Review whether the agency or internal team runs meaningful tests.

For each major change, request:

• The hypothesis
• The treatment
• The control or comparison
• The primary metric
• Minimum duration or conversion volume
• Commercial guardrails
• Result
• Decision taken

Examples include:

• PMax versus Standard Shopping
• New customer-acquisition settings
• Brand exclusions
• Final URL expansion
• Feed-title variants
• Landing-page tests
• Budget-step tests
• Bid-target changes

Google Ads provides Performance Max experiments for testing campaign settings, features and comparisons, including uplift studies where eligible. Google Ads: Performance Max experiments

An agency that makes frequent account-wide changes without hypotheses or evaluation is managing activity, not building knowledge.

Audit area 10: Agency governance, access and transparency

A change of agency is justified less by one weak month than by persistent weaknesses in measurement, transparency, accountability or capability.

Account ownership

The client should have appropriate administrator access and ownership arrangements for:

• Google Ads
• Merchant Center
• GA4
• Tag Manager
• Search Console
• Business Profile where relevant
• Product-feed platforms
• Looker Studio or reporting systems
• Creative assets and landing pages

The agency should not use access control to make departure difficult.

Scope and responsibilities

Document who owns:

• Tracking
• Feed optimisation
• Merchant Center issues
• Campaign management
• Creative production
• Landing-page testing
• Reporting
• Profit data
• Incrementality testing
• Development requests

Performance problems often persist because every supplier assumes another party owns the issue.

Decision transparency

Request explanations for:

• Budget allocation
• Bidding targets
• Campaign structure
• Major exclusions
• Automated recommendations
• Feed changes
• Tests
• Poor-performing areas retained
• Opportunities not pursued

The agency should connect each material decision to a commercial objective.

Reporting quality

A credible monthly report should include:

• Comparison with previous period and previous year
• Spend, orders, revenue, CPA, ROAS and conversion rate
• New versus returning customers
• Brand versus non-brand
• Product and margin-group performance
• Contribution profit where data permits
• Refund or return context
• Total-store and blended measures
• Tests, decisions and next actions

A report consisting only of screenshots and percentage changes is insufficient for a meaningful budget decision.

The agency red-flag scorecard

Red flag	Why it matters
Client lacks administrator access	Creates dependency and handover risk
Purchase tracking has not been reconciled	Bidding and reporting may be unreliable
Agency cannot explain the ROAS target	Optimisation is disconnected from profit
Brand and non-brand are blended	Existing demand can obscure acquisition performance
No Merchant Center or feed ownership	Core Shopping performance input is neglected
No evidence of structured testing	Decisions rely on opinion or platform defaults
Reports exclude product margin and returns	Revenue may be mistaken for profit
Major changes lack documented rationale	Accountability and learning are weak
Recommendations focus only on more budget	Incentives may not align with profitable growth
Strategy is defended with attribution alone	Incremental business impact remains unknown

One red flag may be repairable. A repeated pattern across measurement, access and accountability is a stronger case for change.

What should the audit deliver?

A useful audit should produce more than observations.

Executive summary

Explain in plain language:

• Whether data is reliable
• Whether current activity is profitable
• Whether results appear incremental
• Whether room to scale exists
• Whether agency performance is acceptable

Prioritised findings

Classify each item by:

• Commercial impact
• Confidence
• Urgency
• Effort
• Owner
• Dependency

Quantified opportunities and risks

Estimate, with transparent assumptions:

• Revenue or profit at risk from tracking problems
• Spend exposed to weak queries or products
• Value of disapproved or missing priority inventory
• Profitable impression-share opportunity
• Potential conversion-rate impact
• Cost of continued inaction

90-day roadmap

Sequence fixes so measurement comes before bidding conclusions and foundations come before aggressive scale.

Decision recommendation

State clearly whether to:

• Increase budget
• Retain the agency with an improvement plan
• Place the agency under a defined review period
• Move to a specialist agency
• Build an in-house or hybrid model

A practical 90-day post-audit plan

Days 1–30: Repair and baseline

• Correct purchase and cart-data tracking.
• Reconcile platform and store revenue.
• Resolve critical Merchant Center issues.
• Calculate margin-based targets.
• Secure account ownership and access.
• Establish brand/non-brand and new/returning reporting.

Days 31–60: Restructure and test

• Correct material campaign overlap.
• Improve feed attributes and custom labels.
• Exclude clear query or product waste.
• Align bids and budgets with economic groups.
• Launch priority creative and landing-page tests.
• Begin a controlled incrementality or budget test where feasible.

Days 61–90: Scale or reallocate

• Calculate marginal CPA, ROAS and contribution.
• Increase budgets only in proven areas.
• Reallocate away from weak products or demand.
• Evaluate agency delivery against agreed actions.
• Confirm the next-quarter testing roadmap.

When should an e-commerce business increase Google Ads budget?

Increase budget when the audit shows:

• Measurement is sufficiently reliable.
• Current activity produces acceptable contribution profit.
• Additional qualified demand is being missed.
• Priority products have adequate margin and stock.
• Website conversion remains healthy.
• The marginal return from recent increases is acceptable.
• New-customer value and payback support growth.
• A controlled scaling plan and stop conditions exist.

Do not increase budget merely because a campaign is labelled “limited by budget.” That indicates missed eligible delivery, not guaranteed profit.

When should the business retain the current agency?

Retain and improve when:

• Measurement is transparent and broadly reliable.
• The agency understands the commercial model.
• Problems are identified honestly.
• Tests and decisions are documented.
• Account access and ownership are appropriate.
• Weak performance has a credible, evidenced explanation.
• The improvement plan has specific owners and deadlines.
• The team responds constructively to audit findings.

A strong agency does not need every historical decision to be perfect. It should demonstrate sound judgement, accountability and the ability to learn.

When is changing agency justified?

Consider changing agency when the audit identifies persistent evidence that the current partner:

• Cannot provide trustworthy measurement
• Restricts account ownership or access
• Does not understand product economics
• Reports attributed revenue as profit
• Allows material Merchant Center issues to persist
• Blends brand and non-brand to protect headline results
• Cannot explain major decisions
• Makes repeated changes without structured testing
• Recommends more budget without marginal analysis
• Fails to deliver an agreed corrective plan

Do not change agency solely because of one seasonal decline or algorithm update. Change when the operating model itself cannot provide credible measurement, transparent decisions and a path to improved incremental profit.

Questions to ask during the audit presentation

1. Which conclusions would change if the tracking is wrong?
2. What is our break-even ROAS by product group?
3. Which campaigns produce the most contribution profit?
4. How much spend is brand or returning-customer demand?
5. What proportion of revenue comes from new customers?
6. Which Merchant Center issues affect commercially important products?
7. What is the marginal return on our latest budget increase?
8. Where are we missing profitable demand?
9. Which problems sit outside Google Ads?
10. What evidence supports each proposed change?
11. What should happen in the first 30 days?
12. What result would justify changing agency or increasing budget?

Common audit mistakes

Starting with campaign settings

Tracking and commercial economics should come before tactical optimisation.

Treating recommendations as findings

Google’s recommendations can highlight opportunities, but each should be tested against margin, stock and business objectives.

Producing hundreds of low-impact observations

A useful audit prioritises the issues with the greatest commercial consequence.

Auditing Google Ads without Merchant Center

For retailers using Shopping or PMax, this omits a core part of targeting and eligibility.

Ignoring the website

The account cannot compensate indefinitely for weak conversion, stock or pricing.

Assuming high ROAS proves good management

Brand demand, remarketing and low spend can produce high ROAS without scalable incremental growth.

Recommending a rebuild without protecting learning

Not every imperfect account needs wholesale replacement. Preserve working structures and make changes according to evidence.

Letting the prospective agency grade itself

A free audit can be useful, but recommendations may reflect the services being sold. Ask for evidence, assumptions and commercial prioritisation.

The decision standard

Increase budget only when the audit shows that the next pound of spend is likely to produce acceptable incremental contribution profit—not simply because historic average ROAS is positive.

Retain the agency when it provides reliable measurement, commercial understanding, transparent decision-making and disciplined improvement.

Change agency when the audit demonstrates a repeated inability to provide those fundamentals—and when the replacement model has a credible, measurable plan rather than a different set of promises.

The best Google Ads audit does not end with “your account could be improved.” Almost every account could be improved.

It ends with a clear answer to a business decision:

Where should the next pound go, what result should it produce, and who is best equipped to deliver it?

Frequently asked questions

What should an e-commerce Google Ads audit include?

It should cover conversion tracking, profitability, Merchant Center, product feeds, campaign structure, bidding, budgets, search terms, creative, landing pages, incrementality, reporting and agency governance.

How often should a Google Ads account be audited?

Conduct a strategic audit before material budget increases, an agency change, a major migration or a significant performance decline. Large or rapidly changing accounts also benefit from periodic independent reviews.

How long does a proper Google Ads audit take?

It depends on spend, catalogue size, markets, campaign complexity and data access. A credible audit needs enough time to reconcile measurement, inspect Merchant Center, understand seasonality and quantify findings—not merely scan campaign settings.

Should we increase budget if campaigns are limited by budget?

Only when existing and marginal performance meet the required economics. The status indicates missed eligible demand, not that the extra demand will be profitable.

Is a low ROAS enough reason to change agency?

No. Low ROAS may reflect tracking, margin, stock, competition, seasonality or website issues. Change agency when weak performance is combined with poor diagnosis, transparency, accountability or implementation.

Should a new agency rebuild the entire account?

Not automatically. A full rebuild can discard useful learning and make cause and effect difficult to judge. Preserve what works, prioritise material issues and change structures where the commercial benefit is clear.

Who should own the Google Ads and Merchant Center accounts?

The e-commerce business should retain appropriate ownership and administrator access. Agencies should work within client-owned assets rather than create avoidable dependency.

What is the most important output from an audit?

A prioritised commercial roadmap showing what to fix, expected impact, ownership, measurement and the evidence required before increasing budget or changing agency.

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