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The catalogue is the targeting

Google Ads for E-commerce

In e-commerce keywords do not decide the outcome — the product feed does. Whoever tunes the feed tunes the result; whoever neglects it bids on things they never meant to sell.

Merchant Center · Shopping and Performance Max · Basket value

  • 1feed decides the targeting
  • 52feed reviews a year
  • 97Kconversions measured
  • 2017Google Partner since

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Google Ads

Basket value, not order count

An order of 50 and one of 500 are not the same — we pass basket value to Google, so bidding optimises on return.

TEMERALDS · Google Partner since 2017

A watch boutique: the store we design, the sales we count

The full film

A watch boutique: the store we design, the sales we count

For a luxury watch boutique we design the online store, present every piece, track carts, purchases, WhatsApp and calls, and read ROAS campaign by campaign.

  • 1:27
  • With sound
  • 8 chapters

Figures and brand names in the film are illustrative; results differ from account to account.

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The auction

What governs a store account

Four factors, and three of them live outside the ads interface.

  • 01The product feedTitles, categories, attributes and availability. This is what Google reads, not your description of the store.
  • 02Basket valueAn order worth two thousand is not an order worth two hundred. An account counting orders scales in the wrong direction.
  • 03MarginThe best-selling product is rarely the most profitable. Budget should follow contribution, not volume.
  • 04The abandoned cartThe most efficient opportunity in the whole account, and the most consistently ignored.

How we build a store account

  • Merchant Centre — Connected and disapprovals resolved before any spend.
  • Feed optimisation — Titles written for the matching engine, not for the product page.
  • Value passing — Real order value with each conversion, so return is measured.
  • Cart remarketing — One prompt, quickly — it is usually enough.
  • Margin structure — Campaigns split by contribution rather than by category.
  • Availability sync — Out-of-stock products excluded automatically.
  • Search alongside — Because Shopping alone leaves high-intent queries uncovered.
  • Weekly feed review — Gaps and disapprovals caught before they compound.

The difference

A store that sells, or a store that spends?

The difference appears in the feed before it appears in the campaign.

Common

Tuned on the platform alone

  • A well-managed campaign sitting on a feed nobody has read for months.
  • A flat value per order, so budget drifts to the lowest-value orders because they are the most frequent.
  • Spend continuing on products that are out of stock or disapproved.
  • Abandoned carts ignored — the audience closest to buying.

What we do

Built from the catalogue

  • A feed reviewed weekly: titles, categories, attributes and availability.
  • Dynamic value with every order, so budget follows margin.
  • Out-of-stock excluded automatically and disapprovals resolved before they accumulate.
  • Remarketing segmented by behaviour rather than one list for everyone.

Most of what gets described as weak campaign performance in stores is a feed problem or a value-passing problem — and both are fixed in days rather than months.

Search intent

What shoppers type

  • free delivery
  • cash on delivery
  • installment
  • best price
  • original
  • warranty
  • return policy
  • in stock
  • discount code
  • same day delivery

Google Ads

The product feed is the targeting

Title, price, availability and image — Merchant Center is set up before any campaign, because the feed is what Google reads.

TEMERALDS · Google Partner since 2017

Questions

What gets asked by stores

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01How many products do I need?

No minimum. Twenty well-structured products outperform a thousand with missing attributes.

02Why are my products disapproved?

Most often unclear shipping and returns policies, incomplete data, or a price mismatch with the landing page. We resolve these before launch.

03Does this work with Salla or Shopify?

Yes. The feed exports automatically but still needs tuning — a title written for a buyer is not a title written for the matching engine.

04Shopping or Search first?

Shopping, if your feed is in order — it matches on the product rather than on a keyword you guessed. Search runs alongside for terms the feed cannot cover.

05My ROAS looks good but profit does not — why?

Usually a flat conversion value. If every order reports the same figure, bidding optimises toward the lowest-value orders rather than the most profitable. Passing real order value fixes it within weeks.

06Do I need a separate campaign per category?

By margin rather than by category. Two categories with the same margin can share a campaign; one high-margin line inside a low-margin group will always be underfunded.

How we work — in writing

Four clauses that govern every engagement

Signed into a formal contract, and applied in every market we work in.

Full terms
01
Account
Our accounts, not yours — and we never look inside yours.
02
Payment
Your card is linked to the account, and Google collects the click costs.
03
Oversight
The account is shown to you on a Google Meet call so you can verify spend and performance.
04
Fees
From 7,500 SAR a month, or the equivalent in your own currency.

Start

Start your store campaign

Thirty minutes reviewing your market and your competitors, then a written proposal with scope and fees. No access to your account, and no commitment.

We reply within one working day

Office

New Cairo, Egypt

Markets

Saudi Arabia · Egypt · UAE · Bahrain · Qatar · Oman · Kuwait · and worldwide