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How one audit found and shut off 31,436 dollars of wasted spend

Smart campaigns had eaten the budget for months with almost nothing to show. The biggest line item was the least examined.

Industry
Local services
Services
Google Ads account rescue and audit
Timeframe
Bleed stopped by the next cycle
$31,436
Wasted spend found
45
Conversions it produced
$0
That spend the next month
1 cycle
To stop the bleed
The challenge

The biggest line item, the least examined

Google Smart campaigns had consumed budget for months with almost nothing to show, no keyword visibility and no search-term control. The account looked busy on the dashboard while the money quietly drained.

The largest line item in the account was also the one nobody had ever opened up and priced by outcome.

What we did

Three moves, in order

1

Priced every campaign by outcome

We ran a cost-per-outcome audit across every campaign to see exactly what each dollar was buying, not just what the dashboard summary showed.

2

Stopped the failing Smart campaigns

The campaigns burning budget for only 45 conversions were switched off, immediately halting the bleed.

3

Moved spend to accountable Search

Budget shifted into visible, controllable Search campaigns with real keyword and search-term data behind every click.

The Heureux approach

Automation without oversight optimises for spending the budget, not the outcome. One honest cost-per-result audit exposed what months of dashboard-glancing never surfaced.

The result

31k of bleed, cut to zero

The audit found 31,436 dollars consumed by Smart campaigns for just 45 recorded conversions. The following month, those campaigns spent 0 dollars, with the budget moved under accountable Search campaigns.

$31,436
Wasted spend found
45
Conversions it bought
$0
Next-month bleed
The proof

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