"We tried Google Ads, it didn't work"
How long did you run for
"About 2 months"
What did you run
"Brand search and shopping"
That's not Google not working,
That's YOU not working Google
If you're running Google ads at scale here's a tip for you:
Instead of letting Google auto-apply recommendations, turn them all off and review them manually every week
You've now stopped Google from automatically raising your bids, adding broad match keywords, and expanding your targeting every time they want to spend more of your budget
Auto-apply recommendations exist to increase Google's revenue, not yours...
Takes 30 seconds to turn off but the difference in wasted spend over 90 days is not small
5 minute audit that will tell you everything about your Google team:
Open your campaign breakdown and look at branded vs non-branded spend
if 60-70%+ is going to branded keywords (people typing your actual brand name) stop reading this and message them right now
That ROAS is just your Meta ads driving awareness and Google collecting the credit at the BOF
Your team isn't acquiring new customers, they're standing at the finish line of the race that Meta already ran
Real Google performance shows up in non-branded TOF cold traffic
Ask for that number specifically in your weekly reports and see what happens...
This audit is free but the information is worth whatever you're currently paying them monthly
Met a killer in Miami who was doing $10M/m with his brand
Asked him what his google setup looked like "honestly we don't really touch Google. Meta is just working so well, we haven't needed it"
2 months later he DM’d me... all his Meta ad accounts went down, and revenue dropped over 80% in 7 days.
The backup didn't exist because it wasn't built while he "didn't need it"
That's the thing about platform dependency, it never feels like a problem until it is one
And by the time it is, you're already cooked
Google's ad transparency centre is public, every ad any brand is actively running right now is searchable to the public
Brand names, creative formats, headlines, offers, and exactly how long ads have been live…
Find a competitor with high volume and search their domain, see exactly which creatives they've been running for 60+ days, those are the profitable ones, Google starves underperformers automatically
Look at their headline structure, offer angles, and urgency mechanisms, go to Google shopping and search their category, their product title structure is their feed optimization strategy sitting in plain sight
Run their proven structures and creative angles. You’re not guessing, you’re using approaches that a competitor has already spent thousands of dollars to validate
This takes 30 minutes and is completely free, there’s no reason to guess when the data is just a few clicks away
Some dude came to us after going through 3 Google agencies in 12 months
Each one showed a great ROAS, but none delivered any revenue
We pulled the account history and every single agency had done the exact same thing
Poured budget into branded search, set up one shopping campaign, and sent a monthly report with a high ROAS on paper
But nobody had ever touched cold traffic, in 12 months
We restructured the account with TOF campaigns; PMAX, DSA's, DGEN, YouTube, Display
60 days later we added 50% new revenue without their Meta spend increasing at all
The money was just sitting there the entire time,
3 agencies, none of them could pick it up
Your Google team hasn't mentioned your merchant centre health to you once
It doesn’t matter to them, they're waiting for it to break before they take action
But by then you've already lost
Had a call today with a brand doing $650k/month on Meta only
Asked about their Google ads "yeah we're running with an 8 ROAS"
Pulled up their account to run an audit
90% of spend was on branded keywords, people searching the brand name on Google after seeing their Meta ads lol
Bros paying their Google guys to catch customers that Meta already acquired
Sure the 8 ROAS is real, but the results are completely fake
Real Google scale is what happens on TOF non-branded traffic
Everything else is just paying a middleman to stand at the finish line for you...
The brands doing $300k+/month on Meta only are the most exposed in the room
One account ban, one policy update, one algo shift and you’re cooked
Google fixes this not as a “backup” but as its own acquisition channel
We've had brands add over 50% new revenue in 30 days just by scaling TOF on Google
Stop building a brand on a single point of failure
"What makes More Than Scaling different from other Google agencies"
Simply put, we run our own brands through the same team that we offer as a service
One of them does $6M/month
We test with our own capital first, then bring the knowledge to our partners accounts
A "Meta only" store is worth less when you try to exit
Acquirers look at traffic diversification
If 100% of your revenue runs through one platform, the risk premium hurts your valuation
Brands with Google scaling are more stable, more profitable, and way more exit-able
You're not just adding extra revenue, but enterprise value
The "red zone" is what happens without the right chargeback protection
- 20-30% reserves on your payouts
- Shopify payments shut down (no processing)
- Account termination / blacklist
In 60 days, Disputely prevented 2,312 chargebacks and saved this merchant $150.3K, bringing their ratio down to just 0.3%
Highest coverage. Lowest rates. See the gap for yourself.
A misrep on your GMC isn't the end of the world
It's just a problem 99% of people have no idea how to solve
While you wait weeks for support, our partners are back live in 24 hours
Google's search intent data could be sharpening your Meta targeting
Meta's creative data could be powering your TOF Youtube ads
Most brands don't let these two channels work together…
But if you do, it’s the most slept on W
Meta catches people while they're scrolling
Google catches people while they're searching
one is interruption, one is intent
And you need both to scale
Most brands treat their GMC like a set-and-forget type thing
Until it gets suspended and 6 figs/month in shopping revenue vanishes overnight
Your GMC is your digital storefront on Google
If it goes down, you lose the entire shopping network, not just one campaign
We've unbanned over 2,000+ GMCs in the past 3 years, the suspension is never the end. Ignoring it is