Why do most Google Ads accounts lose money?
Over 10 years of managing Google Ads campaigns, I've seen hundreds of accounts - from small businesses to enterprises. And the statistic is relentless: on an average account, 40-60% of the budget is spent on clicks that will never turn into a customer. Broad match keywords capturing irrelevant queries, lack of negative keyword lists, ads displayed outside business hours, lack of exclusions for inefficient locations, auto-applied recommendations from Google that increase costs under the guise of "optimization."
Google profits when you spend more - not when you convert better. Google-generated recommendations (Auto-Applied Recommendations), Performance Max "black boxes," budget extensions, suggestions for new campaigns - all have one goal: to increase your spending. It's not a bad platform - it's an excellent platform - but it requires an experienced operator who protects your budget from algorithms optimizing for Google's revenue, not your sales.
Our approach is radically different. We optimize for ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) and CPA (Cost per Acquisition), not for CTR or impressions. We don't take a percentage of the advertising budget - because we have no interest in artificially increasing it. We treat every campaign like our own business: profit matters, not turnover. If reducing the budget by 30% while maintaining the same number of conversions is the best strategy - we do it, without hesitation.