Google Ads Audit That Shows Where Your Spend Leaks

A free, hands-on review of your Google Search and Shopping account, with a plain-language findings report and a prioritized 90-day plan built for your Shopify store.

Most Google Ads accounts we open are quietly paying for searches that were never going to buy, and the owner has no way to see it from the dashboard.

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Shopify brands we’ve helped turn performance around

148%
online sales growth
$729K
ad revenue in 90 days
48%
Shopify sales growth

Growth-stage Shopify and DTC brands, client-reported results

The Sausage Maker

6.6
average Google ROAS while reversing a
30%
year-over-year decline

Sticky Brand

6.3
average Google ROAS across a 90-day stretch

Big Daddy Garden Co.

$0 to $70K+
in sales with improved search
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Where Your Google Ads Budget Is Leaking

Are you frustrated with your Google Ads over the past six months? We get it. Here's what we usually find when we open an account:
You're paying for search terms that were never going to buy. Broad match keywords open the door to searches with no buying intent, and the spend adds up fast when no one is watching the search-terms report.
Your Shopping feed is neglected. Missing titles, thin product data, and the wrong categories mean Google shows your products less often, and to people who were never going to add to cart.
Performance Max is a black box. Google's automated campaign type, called Performance Max, spends across Search, Shopping, YouTube, and Gmail at once, and reports almost nothing about where the money actually went.
You can't trust the conversion numbers. Double-counted purchases, broken tags, or counted view-throughs make your return on ad spend (ROAS) look far better on the dashboard than it does in the bank.
Nobody owns the account structure. Campaigns pile up year over year, budgets overlap, and no one has cleaned up what the last agency or freelancer left behind.
Each of these has a specific fix. The audit is where we find them and show you the cost.

What the Google Ads Audit Covers

The audit is hands-on. Our team goes through your live account with you, line by line, instead of running an automated scan and emailing you a score. Here is what we inspect.

Search terms and keywords

Wasted spend on irrelevant searches, and broad match running with no guardrails

Shopping and Performance Max

Feed quality, product coverage, and where your automated spend is really going

Account and campaign structure

Overlapping budgets, buried campaigns, and the mess a prior agency left

Conversion tracking

Whether your purchase and revenue data is honest and counted only once

Bidding and budgets

Bid strategies working against your margins, and budget stuck on the wrong campaigns

Landing pages

Whether the pages your paid traffic lands on are built to turn a click into a sale

Search terms and keywords

The search-terms report is usually the fastest place to find money. In most accounts a real share of spend is going to searches that were never a fit, because broad match was left running without the negative keywords that keep it honest. We flag every one, and we total the spend so you can see it in dollars.

Shopping and Performance Max

Then we look at your Shopping feed, since that is what decides whether Google shows your products at all. A neglected feed with weak titles and missing product data gets shown less and priced worse against competitors who keep theirs clean. Performance Max sits on top of that feed, so a weak feed quietly drags down the campaign type most brands now spend the most on.

What You Get From the Audit

Two things, and both are yours to keep whether or not we ever manage the account for you.

A Plain-Language Findings Report

You get a written report of what we found, in language you can actually read, ranked by how much each problem is costing you. Not a wall of platform metrics. We show you the wasted search-term spend in dollars, the gaps in your Shopping feed, where Performance Max is spending blind, and whether your conversion tracking is telling you the truth. Every finding names the fix.
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A Prioritized 90-Day Plan

The findings report shows you what is wrong, and the plan puts the fixes in order. We lay out the changes worth making over the next 90 days, ranked so the ones that save or make the most money come first: the negative keywords to add, the feed fixes to ship, the tracking to correct, the structure to rebuild. It is written to be run, whether your own team runs it or ours does.

How the Google Ads Audit Works

Four steps take you from account access to a plan you can act on.

You Give Us Access

You grant read-only access to your Google Ads and Merchant Center. We never need to touch your spend or your live campaigns to run the audit.

We Audit the Account

Our team goes through the account by hand, pulls the search-terms and spend data, checks the feed and the tracking, and totals what is leaking. This is the part an automated tool cannot do.
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You Get the Report and Plan

We deliver the findings report and the 90-day plan, and we walk you through both on a call so nothing is left as jargon. You see exactly where the money is going and what we would change.
You Decide What's Next

You Decide What's Next

From there, the plan is yours. Some brands run it with their own team, and some ask us to manage the account and execute it. There is no obligation either way.

Why Brands Trust Our Google Ads Audit

Why Interlace

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We audit by hand, not by script

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We total the waste in dollars

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We check tracking before anything else

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Shopping and Performance Max are covered

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The plan is yours to keep

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Named results, not a logo wall

What It Means for You

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Real people read your search-terms report and feed, so you get findings a tool would miss

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You see wasted spend as a number, not a vague warning about "optimization"

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Niagara Chocolates came to us averaging a 0.32 ROAS, and honest numbers were the first fix

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We open the black box and show you where automated budget actually went

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Findings and 90-day plan are yours whether you hire us or not

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Every figure here belongs to a brand you can look up, reported by that brand

Results From Growing Shopify Brands

Every result below is client-reported for that named brand, never typical or guaranteed. These are Google outcomes from brands whose accounts we audited and then managed. See the full Interlace case studies.

Bonnies

4.7x

St. Bonaventure was searching for a new paid media partner to revamp their digital strategy during the NCAA Basketball Season.

Susan Ciminelli Skin care

48% more Shopify sales

on 35% less ad spend, with partner Mr. Smith Agency.

Marigold Gourmet Popcorn

148%

increase in online sales on a personalized performance-marketing plan
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What clients say (in their own words)

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Erin

Marketing Associate, Longpoint

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Interlace is a dynamic, fun group of individuals who are dedicated to their clients.

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Savannah

Business Development, CDR

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From working with Interlace, our company was able to achieve and surpass its marketing goals.

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Casey

Mister Sizzle's

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We have absolutely loved our experience with Interlace. We wouldn't be where we are without them.

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Questions I get every week

Yes. The audit, the findings report, and the 90-day plan are free, and they are yours to keep whether or not you ever hire us. We run it because it is the honest way to show a Shopify store what we would actually do with the account before anyone signs anything.

Read-only access to your Google Ads account and your Google Merchant Center, and a few minutes to tell us your best sellers and your margins. That's it. We do not need to touch your live spend or pause anything to complete the audit.

No. The audit is read-only. We look, we total what is leaking, and we hand you the report and the plan. Nothing changes in your account unless you decide to have us manage it and you approve the work.

Yes. We review Search, Shopping, and Performance Max together, because on a Shopify store they feed each other. We check your product feed, your product coverage, and where your automated Performance Max budget is going, which is the part most other audits skip.

You get your report and plan, and then it is your call. Some brands take the plan and run it in-house. Others ask us to manage the account and execute the 90 days ourselves. The audit stands on its own either way.

Google's recommendations push you toward spending more and automating more, because that is Google's business. Our audit works for you, not for Google. We look at what your store keeps after the sale and what a new customer really costs, and we flag the spend that is not paying for itself.

Ready to See Where Your Google Budget Is Going?

Book your free Google Ads audit. Our team will go through your Search and Shopping account, show you where spend is leaking, and hand you a prioritized plan for the next 90 days.
Brands we've worked with have reported results like a 6.6 average Google ROAS while reversing a year-over-year decline. Let's build something great together.
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