PAID ADS AUDIT

Your UK Paid Ads Are Probably Spending More Than They Should

Most UK businesses trust their reported ROAS without questioning what it is actually measuring. Broken conversion tracking, inflated brand search data, and campaigns running in silos are routinely hiding the real cost of paid acquisition.

5-day turnaround · Written report + 30-day fix list · No retainer required
This is for you if

Who This Is For

Marketing leads at UK businesses spending £5,000–£100,000/month on paid — You have Google Ads, Meta, and possibly LinkedIn running, but the numbers from each platform never quite reconcile. Your agency or internal team reports positive ROAS figures, yet revenue growth does not reflect what the dashboards suggest. You need an independent read of what is actually happening across your accounts.

Founders and commercial directors who inherited a paid ads setup — You have taken over a business or a new role and inherited accounts that were set up by someone else. You do not know whether the conversion tracking is reliable, whether the account structure makes sense, or whether you are paying for audiences that have no commercial value. You need clarity before committing further budget.

E-commerce and B2B operators preparing to scale paid spend — You are planning to increase paid budgets significantly over the next quarter and need to know whether the existing account foundations can support that scale. Scaling a broken account amplifies the losses. The audit establishes what needs to be fixed before spend increases.

What's broken

What we find in 90% of accounts

Conversion tracking errors

Duplicate conversion actions, misconfigured GA4 events, and conversions that fire on page load rather than on a genuine user action are endemic across UK accounts. When the data feeding Smart Bidding is wrong, every bidding decision the algorithm makes is calibrated against fiction. The accounts that look most efficient on paper are often the ones with the most severe tracking errors.

Brand search inflation

Brand search campaigns capture users who were already going to convert. When brand and non-brand performance is not separated cleanly, brand conversions inflate the blended ROAS and make broad-match and competitor campaigns appear far more effective than they are. Most accounts we audit have no honest picture of what non-brand paid acquisition actually costs.

Google Ads and Meta running in silos

UK businesses commonly run Google Ads and Meta Ads through separate teams, separate agencies, or separate reporting cadences with no shared attribution logic. The same customer journey touches both platforms, but neither is credited accurately. Budget is allocated based on last-click or platform-reported data rather than any honest view of which channel is doing what work.

Smart Bidding launched without sufficient conversion data

Google's Smart Bidding strategies require a minimum volume of clean conversion signals to function correctly. When they are enabled on accounts with sparse or corrupted conversion data — which is common after GA4 migrations — the algorithm explores broadly, burns budget, and reports confident-looking performance that does not hold up to scrutiny.

What we engineer

What the audit covers

Conversion tracking

We audit every conversion action across Google Ads, Meta Ads, and LinkedIn Ads. We verify that each action fires once per genuine conversion, that values are passed correctly, and that the data feeding bidding algorithms is not contaminated by duplicates, test events, or misconfigured triggers. For accounts that migrated to GA4, we specifically check whether the transition introduced tracking gaps or over-reporting.

Account structure

We review campaign structure, ad group segmentation, match type distribution, and budget allocation. Poor structure forces budget to cannibalise between campaigns or audiences that should be separated. We identify where structural problems are causing the algorithm to make suboptimal decisions and where tighter segmentation would give you cleaner performance data.

Keyword and audience strategy

We review search terms reports for keyword waste, audit audience definitions for overlap or exclusion errors, and check whether LinkedIn audience targeting is aligned with the actual buyer profiles you need to reach. We flag spend on search terms, demographics, or placements that have no commercial justification.

Bidding and attribution

We examine which bidding strategies are in use, whether the account meets the data requirements for those strategies, and whether the attribution model in use is producing an honest picture. We assess whether last-click, data-driven, or any other model is systematically over- or under-crediting specific channels or campaign types.

Creative and landing pages

We review ad creative for message consistency, quality score impact, and alignment with landing page content. A campaign can have sound structure and clean tracking and still underperform because the creative does not match the intent of the search query or the audience segment. We also check landing page load speed, form functionality, and conversion path friction.

What changes

What Changes

Before
After
Before Written audit report
After You receive a structured written report that documents every issue found, explains the likely revenue impact of each, and ranks them by priority. The report is written to be understood by a marketing lead, a founder, or a board member — not just a paid media specialist.
Before 30-day fix list
After Alongside the report, you receive a sequenced 30-day fix list that tells your internal team or agency exactly what to do and in what order. Changes are prioritised by impact so that the most consequential fixes happen first.
Before Attribution clarity
After After the audit you will have a clear view of which conversions are being counted accurately, which are inflated, and where attribution is misleading your budget decisions. You will know what your paid acquisition actually costs when the numbers are honest.
Before Decision context
After You will be in a position to make an informed decision about whether to increase spend, reallocate budget between channels, restructure campaigns, or change bidding strategy. The audit does not prescribe a single path — it gives you the evidence you need to decide with confidence.
Common questions

FAQ

How long does the audit take?

The audit is delivered within 5 business days of receiving account access. That includes data pull, analysis across Google Ads, Meta Ads, and LinkedIn Ads, the written report, and the 30-day fix list. If access is provided on a Monday, the report is delivered by Friday of the same week in most cases.

Do I need to sign a retainer to get the audit?

No. The paid ads audit is a fixed-price, standalone engagement with no ongoing commitment. You receive the report and fix list, and you decide what to do next. There is no obligation to continue working with Ignited Nepal after the audit is delivered.

Will you need to make changes to my accounts during the audit?

No changes are made to your accounts during the audit. We require read-only access to each platform. All findings and recommendations are documented in the report, which you or your team can then act on at your own pace.

We already have an agency managing our accounts. Is the audit still useful?

Yes. Many clients commission the audit specifically because their agency is producing reports they cannot independently verify. The audit gives you an objective view of what the accounts contain, what the data actually shows, and whether the work being done aligns with what is being reported. It is not a judgment of your agency — it is a read of the accounts themselves.

What if our conversion tracking turns out to be significantly wrong?

That is one of the most common findings. When tracking errors are identified, the fix list includes specific instructions for correcting each issue. We document what data is currently being reported, what the corrected figures are likely to look like, and what the implications are for bidding strategy once clean data is in place. It is better to know than to continue optimising against figures that do not reflect reality.

Our team

The people behind the work

Not a black box. Real specialists you can call, with their names on the work.

Niraj Raut

Niraj Raut

Founder — Ecommerce SEO
Keshab Joshi

Keshab Joshi

PPC Expert
Hawrry Bhattarai

Hawrry Bhattarai

Google Ads Expert
Arogya Rijal

Arogya Rijal

SaaS SEO Expert
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Find out what your paid accounts are actually doing

The audit takes 5 business days and requires no ongoing commitment. You will receive a written report that tells you exactly where budget is being wasted, where conversion data is unreliable, and what needs to change — ranked by impact. Whether you implement the fixes yourself or bring in support, you will be making decisions based on accurate information.

5-day turnaround · Written report + 30-day fix list · No retainer required