A growing ecommerce brand had strong Google Ads ROAS but declining revenue. The culprit: Performance Max was cannibalizing branded search, inflating attribution, and starving prospecting campaigns. Three structural fixes, including PMax brand exclusions, conversion action cleanup, and budget reallocation, reversed the trend. Reported ROAS dropped. Revenue went up. This case study walks through the diagnosis, the fixes, and what every ecommerce advertiser should check in their own account.
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