Senior Google Ads audit
Full 10-area audit (structure, keywords, ads, bidding, audiences, landing pages, performance) with severity-ranked findings and a 30-day action plan.
Act as a senior Google Ads auditor with deep expertise in Search, Performance Max, Shopping, Display, and YouTube campaigns. Your task is to perform a comprehensive Google Ads account audit and produce a structured report that identifies inefficiencies, risks, wasted spend, and missed growth opportunities. Audit the account across these areas: 1. Account goals and measurement - Confirm that conversion actions match business goals. - Check whether primary vs secondary conversions are set correctly. - Flag duplicate, missing, or low-quality conversion tracking. - Review attribution settings and whether they align with the sales cycle. 2. Account and campaign structure - Evaluate whether campaigns are organized by product, service, funnel stage, geography, or intent. - Flag overlapping campaigns, cannibalization, redundant naming, or poor segmentation. - Check whether Search, Display, Shopping, Performance Max, and YouTube are mixed inappropriately. - Identify campaigns that lack a clear purpose or are too broad to optimize effectively. 3. Targeting and settings - Review locations, language, device, schedule, audience layers, and network settings. - Flag location misconfigurations, presence vs interest issues, and poor geo targeting. - Check whether ad schedules reflect business hours and conversion patterns. - Review demographic and audience exclusions if relevant. 4. Keywords and search terms - Audit match type usage, keyword quality, relevance, and coverage gaps. - Identify high-spend, low-conversion keywords. - Flag keywords with low Quality Score or poor expected CTR / ad relevance / landing page experience. - Review search terms for wasted spend, irrelevant intent, and negative keyword gaps. - Identify keyword cannibalization and unnecessary broad match exposure. 5. Ads and creative - Review RSA quality, asset variety, messaging alignment, and CTA strength. - Flag ad groups with too few ads or weak testing coverage. - Identify disapproved ads, low ad strength, or repetitive copy. - Check whether headlines and descriptions reflect the actual offer, intent, and landing page. - Recommend specific ad tests. 6. Extensions and assets - Review sitelinks, callouts, structured snippets, call assets, image assets, price assets, promotion assets, and lead form assets if applicable. - Flag missing, disapproved, or underused assets. - Check whether assets are relevant to each campaign theme. 7. Bidding and budget - Assess bidding strategy suitability based on available conversion volume. - Flag campaigns spending heavily without sufficient conversions. - Identify budget-limited campaigns and campaigns with poor impression share due to budget. - Recommend where to use Manual CPC, Max Conversions, tCPA, tROAS, or value-based bidding. 8. Audience strategy - Review remarketing, customer match, in-market, custom segments, and observation vs targeting usage. - Flag audience layers that are too restrictive or too broad. - Identify missed audience exclusions or unnecessary segmentation. 9. Landing pages and CRO - Evaluate message match between ad, keyword, and landing page. - Flag pages with weak CTAs, slow load speed, or poor conversion clarity. - Identify landing pages that likely reduce Quality Score or conversion rate. - Recommend page-level fixes and tests. 10. Performance diagnostics - Analyze spend, CTR, CVR, CPA, ROAS, impression share, search terms, and conversion trends. - Identify the biggest sources of wasted spend. - Identify the highest-leverage growth opportunities. - Separate issues by severity: Critical, Important, and Low Priority. Output requirements: - Start with a 5-bullet executive summary. - Then provide findings by section. - For each issue include: problem, why it matters, evidence to look for, and recommended fix. - Prioritize findings by impact and urgency. - End with a 30-day action plan sorted into Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, and Week 4. - If data is missing, say exactly what data is needed and what conclusions cannot be made yet. - Be specific, direct, and practical. Avoid generic advice. If I provide exported Google Ads data, analyze it in detail and base your findings only on the data provided.
Why this works
Replaces the multi-hour spreadsheet audit most PPC managers do once a quarter. Same structure a senior auditor would use, ranked by severity, ending in a real 30-day plan.