Most Google Ads campaigns are set up once and left running. The person who set them up moved on, the business owner doesn't understand what they're looking at in the dashboard, and the budget quietly burns at mediocre efficiency for months. Here's how to actually build a campaign that compounds.
The Most Common Google Ads Mistakes
Targeting too broadly: Bidding on generic keywords like 'marketing agency' instead of 'digital marketing agency for restaurants Delhi' means you're paying for clicks from people who will never convert. No negative keyword list: Without a robust negative keyword list, you're showing ads for searches that are completely irrelevant to your business. Poor landing page alignment: If someone clicks an ad about 'SEO services' and lands on your homepage, they leave. The landing page must match the ad exactly. Ignoring Quality Score: Google's Quality Score determines how much you pay per click. A high Quality Score means you pay less for the same position.
Campaign Structure That Maximises ROAS
One campaign per objective. One ad group per tightly clustered keyword theme. Three to five ads per ad group to allow for testing. Separate campaigns for branded (your company name) and non-branded keywords, with different bid strategies for each. A dedicated remarketing campaign to recapture people who visited your site but didn't convert. Performance Max campaigns for e-commerce, used alongside well-structured Search campaigns, not instead of them.
What 4× ROAS Actually Looks Like
For a ₹1,00,000 monthly budget generating 4× ROAS, you're producing ₹4,00,000 in revenue or equivalent lead value. Getting there typically requires 60-90 days of optimisation: building out negative keywords, testing ad variations, improving landing pages, and letting Smart Bidding algorithms collect enough data to optimise effectively. The businesses that achieve strong ROAS commit to the process. They don't give up in month one.
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