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Free guides for e-commerce stores.

The checklists and playbooks we use on every account: Google Shopping, Merchant Center, Performance Max, tracking and planning. Read them here or download the PDF. No email needed.

PDF · Start hereHow profitable small shops run Google Shopping

The 4-step playbook: be there, rank before you spend, set the traps, check every morning.

Growth and planningSix bottlenecks that stop an e-commerce store from scaling

When spend stops growing, or each extra euro buys a more expensive order, the cause sits in one of six levers. Find the one that binds first...

Performance Max and SearchGoogle Ads account teardown: 20 checks

This is how the Scaling Audit starts. Run the 20 checks in order and mark each one Yes, No or Unknown. Unknown counts as a finding. Make no ...

Google Shopping and feedMerchant Center feed checklist

Shopping and Performance Max build their product ads from your feed. A disapproved product cannot show, and a weak title shows for the wrong...

Performance Max and SearchPerformance Max setup SOP and cheat sheet

Setup steps for a Performance Max campaign that finds new customers and leaves your brand traffic alone, then the weekly check and the red f...

Growth and planning

Growth and planningAI Max for Search: setup, controls and the weekly review

AI Max is a setting on Search campaigns. It matches your ads to searches beyond your keyword list, can rewrite ad text to fit the search, an...

Growth and planningCompetitor research for Google Ads in one hour

Most shops guess who their competitors are. Google shows you who you actually meet in the auction, and what they run. This file is a one-hou...

Growth and planningCustomer lists and remarketing for e-commerce

Your own customer data tells Google who already buys from you. Used well, it keeps prospecting campaigns away from people who would buy anyw...

Growth and planningAdsaru Google Ads playbook: every resource in one place

The reading order for every Adsaru resource, in the order we review an account. Read this page once, then open each file as a checklist when...

Growth and planningNew product launch checklist for Google Ads

Run this before a new product goes into paid campaigns. Most launches stall on the data: a missing GTIN, a page without stock, or a title no...

Growth and planningGoogle Ads optimization checklist: daily, weekly, monthly

The daily part takes 5 minutes, the weekly part an hour, the monthly part half a day. Change one thing at a time and log it with a date.

Growth and planningProfit and MER tracking for e-commerce

Google Ads reports revenue and ROAS for its own campaigns. Your bank account reports profit for the whole shop. The two drift apart: each pl...

Growth and planningProspecting on Google Ads without leaning on brand traffic

Brand search flatters an account. People who type your name would often buy anyway. Split brand from everything else, then measure what paid...

Growth and planningQ4 peak checklist for e-commerce

Q4 brings more traffic, more competitors and higher click prices at the same time. In 2026 Black Friday falls on Friday 27 November and Cybe...

Growth and planningSales event playbook for Google Ads

A sale is a short window with a known cost: the discount. Plan it with a start, a peak and an end, and work out before launch what each orde...

Growth and planning90-day scaling roadmap for an e-commerce store

A 13-week plan to take a store from "ads work a bit" to "we can add budget and know what it returns". It covers the whole store, with a gate...

Growth and planningSearch ad copy for e-commerce: from customer research to responsive search ads

A responsive search ad has up to 15 headlines of 30 characters and 4 descriptions of 90. Most shops fill them with the product name and "fre...

Growth and planningSmart Bidding targets: when to set one and how to move it

Target ROAS and target CPA decide how hard Google bids on every search. A target set too early, or moved too far in one step, costs more tha...

Google Shopping and feed

Google Shopping and feedComparison Shopping Services (CSS) for EU Shopping ads

If you sell in the EU, Shopping ads run through a Comparison Shopping Service. By default that is Google's own, which keeps a margin on ever...

Google Shopping and feedMerchant Center suspension checklist

An account-level suspension stops all your products from showing in Shopping and Performance Max. Fix the cause first, then request one revi...

Google Shopping and feedShopping campaign setup SOP and checklist

Setup steps for a Standard Shopping campaign that uses the feed well and reports cleanly. Use it for every new account or market.

Google Shopping and feedMore Shopping slots for one product: variants, bundles and multipacks

Some advertisers copy a product under a new ID with a different title, to take two slots on one search. Google's product data rules ask for ...

Google Shopping and feedShopping ranking cheat sheet

Shopping ads are ordered by Ad Rank: your bid, or the bid Smart Bidding sets, together with how likely Google thinks the product is to be cl...

Google Shopping and feedShopping product title guide

The title decides which searches a product shows for and what the shopper reads first. Here is one formula, the rules, a way to change title...

Performance Max and Search

Performance Max and SearchComparison pages for Google Ads: how to build a fair one

A comparison page answers "this or that" for a buyer who already has an alternative in mind. Send competitor and "vs" searches there. It wor...

Performance Max and SearchKeyword research for e-commerce Google Ads

Keyword research for a shop has three jobs: find the terms that sell, block the terms that waste money, and decide which terms deserve their...

Performance Max and SearchGoogle Ads in 2026: what changed for e-commerce and what to check

Seven changes from 2025 and 2026 that affect a shop's Google Ads account, each with the check to run. Rollout differs by country and account...

Performance Max and SearchSearch ads cheat sheet for e-commerce

Search ads catch people who already type what they want. Build the account around how close each search is to buying.

Tracking

TrackingConversion tracking SOP and checklist

Set conversion tracking up once, then check it every month. Smart Bidding sets every bid from these numbers, so a wrong value moves real mon...

Landing pages

Landing pagesAdvertorial landing page playbook for cold traffic

An advertorial is a page that reads like an article, answers the question the ad raised, and only then sells. Use it for cold traffic from M...

Landing pagesLanding page formats for paid traffic

Each campaign type sends a different visitor. Match the page to what the click expects. This file gives seven formats, where each one fits, ...

AI and automation

AI and automationChatGPT product visibility: a 30-minute check

This check shows whether ChatGPT names your shop when buyers ask about your products, and whether your site lets OpenAI's search crawler in....

AI and automationThree automation workflows for an e-commerce team

Automate the checks someone does by hand every week, and give each workflow one owner. Start with the first one, run it for two weeks, then ...

Other channels

Other channelsDemand Gen playbook for e-commerce

Demand Gen shows image, video and product ads on YouTube (including Shorts), Discover, Gmail and, since 2025, the Google Display Network. Us...

Other channelsMicrosoft Ads playbook: running it next to Google Ads

Microsoft Ads shows your ads on Bing, Microsoft's partner sites and Copilot. It has less traffic than Google and clicks are often cheaper. W...

Other channelsYouTube ads playbook for e-commerce

YouTube sells products a buyer needs to see working. Since 2025 Google runs YouTube campaigns that bid for purchases as Demand Gen, and Vide...

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